Hazy days eye injuries eye doctor reminded: this week, the northern provinces again “ten haze”. Although it did not affect Huzhou, but many people’s memories of last year’s several haze. However, people tend to pay more attention to the respiratory tract in the haze “injury”, but ignore the eyes are also the most vulnerable to haze attack. The actual eye doctor suggests that the eyes are indeed afraid of “haze”, and it’s best to clean your eyes when you return from a hazy day, and don’t wear contact lenses if your eyes are uncomfortable. So the chances of eye inflammation will rise due to hazy days. And wearing contact eyes can bring foreign substances in the air between the lens and the eye, causing eye discomfort. This microblogging has made many netizens feel the same way. “When I go out on those foggy days, my eyes are particularly uncomfortable when I arrive home.” “Dry and itchy, very uncomfortable.” Comments such as these can be found everywhere. The effect of haze on the eyes is also recognized by ophthalmologists. “The human eye is a very sensitive organ, and the tiny particles suspended in the haze can irritate the eye, making it prone to eye redness, foreign body sensation, tearing, congestion and other symptoms. Winter is already cold and dry, is the high incidence of dry eye disease, haze once the air impurities and harmful chemicals increase, it adds to the problem.” Yang Weihua, attending ophthalmologist at the city’s first hospital, told reporters that last year, Lake City was shrouded in haze that time, the ophthalmology department did see more patients than usual, most of them have dry eyes, pain or more than tears, and a few even suffer from allergic conjunctivitis. Among them are both wearing frame glasses and contact lenses, and there are many patients with increased symptoms of dry eye. Yang Weihua explained that the main components of the haze are respirable particles in the air, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other physical substances, chemical particles, and other allergens. These substances are highly likely to cause irritation to the eye mucous membrane system. Long-term exposure to the haze, the eyes are exposed to a large number of allergens, the possibility of allergic conjunctivitis is greatly increased, and over time may even induce keratitis. For contact lenses, Yang Weihua believes that contact lenses tend to adsorb particles in the haze, increasing the chances of airborne irritants entering the eyes. “So wearing contact lenses will aggravate the foreign body feeling in the eyes, but also affect the permeability of the tear film, hazy weather pressure is already low, the cornea is more likely to lack of oxygen.” Yang Weihua said. When you come back from outdoors and wash your face, don’t forget to wash your eyes. You can wear a mask when you go out, but wearing an “eye mask” is not convenient and difficult to popularize. Yang Weihua advised the public to protect their eyes on a hazy day, first of all, to reduce going out, if you have to go out, remember to wash your face immediately when you return, and wash your eyes with water, mainly the eyelid skin and eyelash part. “Just like cleaning the nasal cavity, harmful substances in the haze will also remain around the eyes and should be cleaned in time. “Yang Weihua said that the contact lens family should reduce the wearing time. At the same time usually love makeup ladies should be extra careful, cosmetics in and around the eye surface residue, will be more easily attached to airborne particles, or breeding microbes, causing damage to the eyes. And for the growing group of dry eye patients, Yang Weihua suggests that you can consciously blink more, so that tears wet and clean the cornea; if symptoms such as dryness, pain and tearing continue to appear or worsen, go to a regular hospital for treatment and use artificial tears to relieve symptoms under the guidance of a doctor. “Haze composition is very complex, the cause of each person may be different, so do not buy eye drops at will, so as not to ‘wrong medicine’ instead of causing damage to the eyes.” Yang Weihua said.