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Top 6 Tips to Improve Your Vision and Become Your Eye Doctor

We all know the powerful senses we possess to live a normal life, and these senses are our interface to interact with the outside world. All the other senses like smell, hearing, touching, and tasting are priceless in their ways.

However, we do not consider our senses until an organ fails.

Vision is considered to be the most crucial. The eyes are the most important organ in our body. Studies have demonstrated that we experience up to 80% of all sensations from our sense of sight. It is next to impossible for anyone to imagine their lives without eyes.

Now, you might have got a better understanding of why vision is so critical to humans.

Here are the top 6 tips to improve your vision and become your eye doctor.

  1. Reduce Your Screen Time

The most common reason for eye problems is more screen time. When we watch TV screens, laptop screens, and mobile screens constantly, without even giving eyes a little bit of rest, which makes our eyes dry and accumulates the dead cells on the surface area.

More accumulation of these dead cells creates dark circles and results in our eyesight being weak.

Tip:

Understandably, many of us have a job requirement that we need to sit in front of screens for long hours but still you can put little effort to relax your eyes by making sure that after every 30 minutes, you get up from your seats and take a walk.

You can drink water, which not only will dehydrate your eyes but also give them needed relaxation.

Reading While Travelling

This is one of the common mistakes many people make; they read while traveling. It creates huge stress on the eyes when we read while traveling because the text you are trying to read is continuously swinging and it is very difficult for eyes to focus on the text.

Your eyes have to put enormous effort to read it, which creates more stress on the eyes. Nowadays, people do texting on small screens of mobile phones, which also results in eyes being stressed.

Tip:

Completely avoid reading and texting while traveling.

Not Wearing Sunglasses

Wearing sunglasses is not only a fashion style but it also saves you from dangerous Ultraviolet rays and High-Energy Visible lights coming from the sun. Constant exposure to eyes with UV rays damages the eyes.

Tip:

Always wear good quality sunglasses whenever you are going, so you are certainly safe from dangerous UV rays.

Food for Eyes

Protecting and making your eyes strong, you will have to include certain food habits or diets in your daily lives.

Tip:

Green vegetables have Zeaxanthin and Lutein in abundance which are very important nutrients for the eyes.

Carrot is rich in Vitamin A and Beta Carotene; it can help you to improve your eyesight. You can eat carrot either in the form of salads or juices.

Indian Gooseberry is also filled with Vitamin C, which is a natural tonic for your eyes.

Not Doing Regular Eye-Check-up

We all are aware that the eyes are a sophisticated and sensitive part of our body. Hence, good specialized care and regular check-up of the eyes are very important.

It should not be just a vision screening but a thorough check-up by a specialized eye doctor.

Tip:It has been recommended by experts that a thorough eye test should be performed at least once every year.

Not Sleeping Correctly

Your sleeping habits also play a major role in the overall health of your eyes. Waking up till late at night can create more troubles for your eyes.

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A sufficient amount of sleep will provide your eyes much-needed rest.

These are some simple tips that can be followed despite the hectic lifestyle and schedule we have. Taking care of your eyes is one of the best ways to ensure you are working towards better health.

These tips are part of Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation’s awareness-building campaigns that helps in preventing eye disease and degeneration. For years now, the foundation has been working tirelessly to cure the problems of blindness and vision loss that are affecting people in India. While working on treating various vision-related issues, they also run regular campaigns to raise awareness for eye health. In addition, the foundation also provides knowledge and cure for blindness due to cataracts, corneal operations, eye transplants, eye donation, and seminars on curing blindness while improving people’s lives in various villages and cities.