In modern life, students, white-collar workers and salaried workers all have the need to stay up late, and stay up late for a long time to find that their eyes are also in a “mood”. Staying up late is an event that almost all modern people can’t avoid. In fact, the damage to the eyes from staying up late can be avoided to some extent.
What is considered to be staying up late What are the harmful effects of staying up late on the eyes
In the usual sense, staying up late means staying up all night for something or staying up all night to endure sleep. But from a medical point of view, staying up later than the body’s normal physiological sleep time can be counted as staying up late, that is, after 11:00 sleep is counted as staying up late. Staying up late has great harm to the eyes.
1, dry eye syndrome
Staying up too long, blinking times reduced, will lead to a large number of tears evaporated, prone to dry eye disease. As some people stay up late for fear of affecting other people’s rest, the lights will be turned off or dimmed. More likely to cause visual fatigue, leading to dry eye disease.
2, eye fatigue and vision loss
Eye fatigue is mainly caused by people staying up late, the eye ciliary muscle has been in working condition, while flashing screens strongly stimulate the eyes. Eye fatigue can easily cause dry eyes, astringent eyes, sore eyes, blurred vision and even vision loss, which directly affects people’s work and life. Staying up late can also lead to pain in the corresponding parts of a person’s neck and shoulders.
3.Dark circles under the eyes
Insomnia, stay up late will soon become “panda eyes”. This is due to often stay up late, emotional instability, aging, blood flow is too slow, eye skin oxygenation is insufficient, the accumulation of carbon dioxide and metabolic waste in the veins, the formation of chronic hypoxia, darker blood and the formation of stagnant flow and cause eye pigmentation.
4.Eye bags
Staying up late can easily cause the appearance of bags under the eyes. Because the eyelid skin is very thin, subcutaneous muscle tissue is thin and loose, long-term stay up late, the fragile microvascular wall and fat layer metabolism is not smooth, resulting in poor drainage edema phenomenon, thus producing bags under the eyes.
How to relieve the damage of staying up late for the eyes what eye care should be done
In order to reduce the damage of staying up late on the eyes and get back to their own state, Director Ying Ying recommends that you, through the following several health care methods to help the eyes back to the road to youth.
1.Balanced diet, maintain adequate vitamins
Because staying up late often overuse the eyes, eye pain, dryness, swelling and other problems, resulting in temporary vision loss, and even make people suffer from dry eye disease. Properly eat some fruits rich in vitamin A, such as mangoes, oranges, carrots, etc., can improve the adaptability of workers who stay up late to dim light and prevent visual fatigue. Blueberries, bananas are especially suitable for late night consumption, in addition to protecting the eyes, its antioxidant substances can also refresh and prevent fatigue.
2, proper rest, do not use the eyes for a long time
When staying up late, it is best to take a 10-minute break every 45 minutes or so of work and do eye exercises, which can relieve eye fatigue to some extent. You can also use your hands to apply hot compresses to your eyes. Rub your hands until they are hot. Then, close your eyes and cover the eye circles with the palms of your hands, do not compress your eyes, just cover them. Breathe deeply and slowly. Do this for 20 minutes to help reduce eye strain. Pay attention to blinking when reading.
3, the reading environment and the computer’s brightness is moderate
The lighting of the reading environment and the brightness of the computer screen should be moderate, and adjust the contrast between light and dark to make the font clear. This can reduce the adjustment of the eye lens and help delay eye fatigue. The eyes should be about 1 foot away from the book and the computer. The computer screen is slightly below the line of sight.
Conclusion: The above-mentioned methods of coping with late nights, no matter which, are a symptom but not a cure, and can only cope with a moment. If you really want to have a pair of bright eyes, a flexible mind, a strong body. A healthy and orderly work and rest schedule is the real cure.