Preventing dry eye disease It’s important to protect the whole person from eating, sleeping, working, and living – without or with as few contact lenses as possible. What is dry eye? Dry eye is a disease with a high incidence. Like cataracts, everyone will experience dry eye symptoms at one time or another when they reach old age. The incidence of dry eye is not very consistent from one region to another. The incidence is relatively higher in the north, like Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Beijing, where the incidence is 10% to 20%, while the incidence is lower in the south. Dry eye can affect work and life in the mild cases, and in the severe cases, it can lead to dryness, dissolution, perforation and even endangering kidney function of the eye surface or tissues. When we have the following symptoms, we should be careful that we may have dry eye disease. 1, dry eyes, tightly closed eyes, still feel very uncomfortable. 2, feel something inside the eyes, but carefully rub or use the mirror to see and not, foreign body feeling, soreness, blurred. 3, look at the computer for a long time, feel special eye fatigue, heavy eyelids, fear of light, and vision loss. What factors are likely to cause dry eye syndrome? 1.Age is a big factor that affects dry eyes. The quality and flow of tears decreases with age, especially in women after menopause, the case of dry eye is very high. 2, the living environment, especially the northern windy, dry, heavy pollution, such an environment will increase the incidence of dry eye disease. Also, driving in the summer we often use air conditioning, will also induce dry eye disease. 3, the work environment, such as white-collar class in a very small office building inside the work, everyone’s space is relatively small, and there are a lot of computers and electrical equipment around, but also use air conditioning all day, this situation is also particularly prone to dry eye disease. 4, contact lenses, often wear contact lenses can also cause dry eye disease, especially wearing absorbent soft contact lenses, it will increase the occurrence of dry eye disease. 5, some drugs have side effects or adverse reactions that induce dry eye syndrome, we often use some eye drops contain some additives, especially preservatives, can also cause dry eyes and other symptoms, we call this type of dry eye syndrome pharmacogenic dry eye syndrome, is due to the drug caused by dry eye syndrome. 6, some disease symptoms are symptoms of dry eye syndrome, such as the most common dry syndrome, it is common in middle-aged and elderly women, one of its symptoms is dry eyes, dry mouth, dry nose, dry stool, dry skin, it will cause some dryness of the mucous membrane of the multi-system. 7, often stay up late and other bad habits, or work more night shifts. 8, vitamin A deficiency. How to prevent dry eye? Prevention of dry eye disease is roughly divided into three parts. The first part is the secondary dry eye caused by the treatment of other diseases. The second is the ordinary dry eye, there is no special reason. The third is the video terminal syndrome that has emerged recently in recent years. Secondary dry eye must be treated for the primary disease, if the primary disease cannot be treated, then it is difficult to get a complete solution to our dry eye, for example, if dry syndrome is treated, the problem of dry eye will not be solved. Also avoid drugs that cause dry eyes. Try to avoid dry living environment. You can use hot towels to apply wet compresses, hot compresses or sauna to your eyes with hot air. You can also massage some acupuncture points, just like we do eye exercises, the solar plexus, Zanzhu, Fengchi, bright these points can do some local massage, if you can and hot compress with massage, the effect will be better. Ordinary dry eye disease ordinary dry eye disease from daily life, diet, sleep, work, life and other aspects of all aspects of protection. 1, sleep, to avoid staying up late. Eat a balanced diet, eat more fruits and foods containing vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and other antioxidant ingredients, such as carrots, spinach, sesame, black beans, soybeans, millet, etc. You can drink porridge with goji berries, lilies, yams, barley, red dates, walnuts. Or drink water with chrysanthemum, maitake, xuan ginseng, sage. These foods are able to relieve dry eyes. The other thing is to combine work and rest, do not work too hard, let your eyes rest regularly, read a book or use the computer for 30 to 40 minutes to rest 10 minutes. You can blink more often to let the tears float to the cornea, which can protect our cornea. You can also use a humidifier. Like Beijing is relatively dry, especially after autumn, a glass of water or a pot of aquatic plants in the house can add some humidity to the dry environment. 2, doctors generally do not recommend the use of contact lenses, if they must be worn, but also to wear as little as possible, before going to bed at night must take it off, and it is best to use the discard type, because after long-term use, the contact lens material will decline, oxygen permeability will be reduced, it will affect the degree of eye dryness. 3, if there are eye surface diseases, must be actively treated, such as conjunctivitis or membrane inflammation, the initial treatment is relatively easy, if the treatment is not timely turned into chronic, the effect of treatment is very poor, especially the more common trachoma, chronic conjunctivitis, some inflammation of the eyelid, it is easy to make the conjunctiva form a scar, this scar will destroy some epithelial cells of the cornea, further causing dry eyes. 4, video terminal syndrome due to prolonged close viewing of computers, cell phones, television, etc., this kind of prolonged use of video caused by eye fatigue, dryness and other visual problems, are called video terminal syndrome. The treatment of this dry eye syndrome is to try to reduce the time to use the video. When using the computer, and the screen to have a certain distance, at least in 30 to 40 cm, the computer is best below the eye line of sight, do not look up, look up when the eye exposure area is larger, tears evaporate quickly.