It is often said that the eyes are the window to the soul, and the world is at your fingertips. A good pair of eyes can make you feel a wonderful moment, enjoy the colorful world, and can accurately convey your delicate and rich emotions to others. For each of us, our eyes are so important. But the lack of knowledge about eye diseases can often make all of this come to naught. Some eye diseases are easily misdiagnosed, mistreated or neglected, and can lead to irreversible and serious consequences such as blindness, so people should not be careless.
Red eyes are not always “red eyes”. “Red eyes” are acute epidemic conjunctivitis, which is characterized by red eyes, increased eye discharge (eye droppings) and foreign body sensation. However, acute iridocyclitis, acute angle-closure glaucoma, keratitis and other eye diseases can also show symptoms of eye redness, and if treatment is delayed, they often cause irreversible and serious vision damage. When you have red eyes, do not think that is “red eyes”, just buy some eye medicine a little, but to the hospital to let the ophthalmologist check, and under the guidance of the doctor medication, in order to make you recover as soon as possible.
Here is a simple self-test to help you distinguish between conjunctivitis and these serious eye diseases caused by “red eyes”. Generally speaking, simple conjunctivitis does not affect vision, while other eye diseases affect vision to varying degrees, when your eyes are red, especially in one eye, please cover the good eye, such as red eye vision blurred or decreased, then quickly to the hospital to avoid delaying the disease.
Ninety percent of glaucoma patients are unaware of their condition Glaucoma is a common disease in China and ranks third on the list of blinding eye diseases in China. The prevalence rate in the population is about 0.21% to 1.64%. This eye disease cannot be prevented and the damage caused to vision is difficult to recover, so only early detection and early treatment can prevent blindness. However, many patients do not receive early diagnosis and treatment. A survey in Beijing shows that about 90% of glaucoma patients are unaware of their condition.
The reason is that patients with primary open-angle glaucoma have no obvious symptoms, and when the field of vision shrinks significantly, the disease is already at an advanced stage; acute attacks of closed-angle glaucoma are often seen in internal medicine or neurology because of headache, nausea and vomiting, which misses the best time to save the vision. Therefore, when you have symptoms of eye pain, headache, or see rainbows appearing around the lamp, go to the hospital for examination.
It is also recommended that people over the age of 40 should visit the hospital regularly (every 1 to 2 years) for vision, intraocular pressure, anterior chamber depth and fundus examination so that glaucoma can be detected early and treated early in order to minimize the blindness of glaucoma. Patients after glaucoma surgery must also visit the hospital regularly for IOP and visual field examinations. Never think that you can rest easy after surgery; only by maintaining your IOP within the target IOP can the continued damage to the optic nerve be curbed.
Myopia prevention and control, too many misconceptions The occurrence of myopia in adolescents is partly due to the genetic inheritance of parents with high myopia, but most of it is also caused by improper eye use, especially related to close work, such as insufficient lighting, too close reading distance, too long reading time, unclear or too small fonts and poor posture are all related to the occurrence and development of myopia.
Some school students do not get normal rest for their eyes due to indulging in TV, internet, games, etc. This is also a factor. Maintaining good eye habits, not using eyes excessively and for a long time, paying attention to the interval between eyes, and paying attention to light and distance are effective measures to prevent and slow down the development of myopia.
Eyeglass prescription is not only a matter of optometry, but also a strong medical reason, so the medical knowledge of eyeglass practitioners is very high, and the concept of “medical optometry” should be accepted by more and more people. If there is a loss of vision, do not just put on a pair of glasses. Because myopia has a real and pseudo myopia, pseudo myopia can be alleviated through treatment.
Many people with pseudomyopia may turn into true myopia once they are fitted with glasses, thus losing the opportunity for treatment. So be sure to go to the hospital for a clear diagnosis. Even with true myopia, wearing unsuitable glasses can aggravate the condition. So far, there is no method that can be the ultimate solution for myopia treatment, therefore, only by combining effective medical treatment and vision health education can we solve the problem of preventing and treating myopia eye disease more thoroughly.
A survey shows that the current “eye care lights” that are often advertised are not as advertised as having eye care health functions, and many manufacturers just “stick” the concept of “eye care lights” in their Many manufacturers only “stick” the concept of “eye protection lamp” on the logo of their products. In fact, for children to buy a 40-watt incandescent lamp, placed in the front left corner of the desk, can meet the needs of children’s evening reading and learning, very convenient.
With a pair of suitable glasses should master the following three principles: 1, found blurred vision first ask the ophthalmologist to confirm the diagnosis, and exclude other eye diseases, so as not to delay the disease; 2, refractive error to adhere to the optometry prescription (no contraindications to the best dilated pupil optometry), in order to determine the accurate refraction; 3, before prescribing glasses must be re-tested (i.e. try on glasses), which is the objective optometry and subjective acceptance This is the combination of objective optometry and subjective acceptance, in order to choose the best diopter acceptable to the patient. The “computerized optometry, immediately desirable” method of prescription is difficult to achieve accurate, especially for adolescent refractive error is not desirable.