Generally speaking, middle-aged and elderly people have such an experience: when looking at near objects suddenly turn to distant objects, they will feel white in front of their eyes and see things unclearly, which is caused by the decrease of the body’s adjustment ability. In addition, you can also feel that the text you can see in the bright place to the dark place to read very hard, read the phone book, dictionary, newspapers and other small words above the effort, nearsighted people often need to remove their eyes when looking at the near things. If you are in your 40s or 50s, you can consider the possibility of presbyopia after you have been examined in the hospital to rule out other diseases.
Presbyopia, also known as “visual acuity loss”, is a condition that occurs when the lens hardens and its elasticity decreases, causing the ciliary muscle to contract and become less adjustable. This phenomenon is called presbyopia. The most immediate symptoms are blurred reading at close range, fatigue, acidity, teariness, photophobia, dryness and accompanying headache.
Presbyopia and hyperopia are very different concepts. Presbyopia is a phenomenon of aging with age and is a physiological manifestation of aging, and it does not belong to the category of refractive error. The farsightedness is a kind of refractive error.
Presbyopia has nothing to do with wearing or not wearing presbyopic glasses. It is not possible to control the deepening of presbyopia without presbyopic glasses. With the deepening of the degree of presbyopia, it is also necessary to have deeper presbyopic glasses in order to keep the eyes comfortable and function properly, and to improve learning and working efficiency.
In order to delay or slow down the occurrence of presbyopia, pay attention to the following points of eye hygiene: 1.
1, blink often and turn the eyes, which can exercise the eye muscles.
2, lighting intensity should be appropriate, too strong or too weak light, are harmful to eye vision, to the natural light of a sunny day and soft light is appropriate. From the dark to the sun to close the eyes, do not let the sunlight directly to the eyes.
3, do not read the newspaper after meals or when you are tired, and do not watch television or movies for too long.
4, timely replacement of the appropriate degree of glasses, avoid reading too small font, scribble or blurred reading materials.
5, focus on a small target gaze, do not use the afterglow of squinting to see things.
6, should always do eye exercises to eliminate eye fatigue.
Do eye exercises often: (acupuncture point positioning)
Prevention of presbyopia can be completely through eye exercises for eye health, eye exercises for all people made only the benefits of no harm. But the operation should be accurate, otherwise it will produce damage to the eyes. You can meditate in the heart of each section four, eight beats.
1, eyes closed into the quiet: feet apart and shoulder width sitting, arms naturally hanging, the whole body relaxed, both eyes lightly closed. Can relieve ciliary muscle tension and eliminate visual fatigue.
2, press the eyes: the index fingers of both hands are pressed on both sides of the eyes point, the rest of the fingers in the shape of a fist, each beat pressed once. It has the effect of preventing visual dimming.
3, press the sun, Zanzhu, scraping the arch of the eyebrows: the first two eight beats, both thumbs press the solar plexus, the index finger press the Zanzhu point, once per beat. For the third and fourth eight beats, bend the index fingers of both hands, make a fist with the remaining fingers, and scrape the arch of the eyebrows from the inner end of the eyebrows outward, once every two beats. Prevent and cure eye disease and vision loss.
4, press the four white: each beat press the four white points 1 time. Prevention and treatment of eye disease.
5.Twist the earlobe and turn the eye: both thumbs and forefingers, respectively, hold the earlobe and twist and press once per beat. Turn the eyeballs, the first and second eight beats of the eyeballs along the counterclockwise direction, the rotation order is up, left, down, right. The third and fourth eight-beat eyes are turned in a clockwise direction, and the order of rotation is up, right, down and left. Turn one direction per beat. Can relieve the tension of the eye muscles.
6, twist hegu, look out at the scene: the first two eight beats right thumb pressure on the left hand hegu point, index finger pad on the palm surface and
The thumb is in the corresponding position, each beat kneading 1 time. The third and fourth eight beats, the two hands rotate, each beat kneading 1 time. At the same time, the eyes look far away from the scenery. It can wake up the brain, enhance metabolism, relieve the tension of the ciliary muscle, and achieve the purpose of relaxing the lens.
Prevention of eye disease in the elderly starts with “eating”
The elderly can effectively prevent the occurrence and development of age-related eye diseases if they pay attention to the protection of their eyes from their daily diet. Chinese medicine believes that the liver is open to the eyes, people over 40 years old, kidney water loss, resulting in liver and kidney essence and blood deficiency, can not glory in the eyes, resulting in the eyes can not see, therefore, to prevent presbyopia, should be based on a balanced diet, the appropriate intake of more food with liver and kidney effect.
In particular, green and black food, Chinese medicine believes that liver is wood, green, kidney is water, black, green food can benefit the liver, black food can benefit the kidney, so the elderly in the daily diet, should fully intake of green food such as fruit (grapes, lemon, bananas, apples, apricots) vegetables (spinach, celery, pumpkin, cucumber, ginkgo), etc., appropriate intake of black food, such as black sesame, black beans, black rice, black wood, black sesame. black beans, black rice, black fungus, etc. These black foods have the function of tonifying the kidney and nourishing the blood, and the elderly can take them to strengthen their teeth and eyes. However, it should be noted that beans and sesame contain a high amount of fat, excessive consumption, for the elderly with hyperlipidemia is not suitable.
Chinese medicine also has the saying of what to eat to make up for it, and moderate consumption of animal liver is also good for presbyopia.
Honey contains a variety of amino acids that can slow down aging. Foods rich in vitamin E and vitamin B1, such as egg yolk, vegetable oil, soybeans and lean pork prevent the rise of intraocular pressure. In the hot season, the elderly can often eat “clear heat and brighten eyes” diet, such as chrysanthemum tea, bamboo leaf soup, bitter melon soup, raw bitter melon, etc.
Presbyopia treatment
Wearing presbyopic glasses (a kind of convex lens) is the simplest and necessary method.
Although presbyopia can be treated with corneal surgery, the technology is not yet mature and is too cumbersome
If the symptoms of presbyopia appear too early or develop quickly, the treatment should be based on the physical condition: for those with liver and kidney deficiency, Qiju Dihuang Wan can be added or subtracted; for those with kidney deficiency and heat, Dizhi Wan can be added or subtracted; for those with qi and blood deficiency, Bazhen Tang can be added or subtracted.
Two medicinal meals.
Sesame peanut soy milk.
Ingredients: black sesame 15 grams, 25 grams of peanuts, soybean powder 50 grams.
Method: first black sesame seeds, peanuts clean. Dried into a pot with a light fire fried out of fragrance, research into a fine powder. Soybean powder with water, boil for 3 minutes over medium heat, filtered with clean gauze, the obtained soymilk juice into a large cup, add peanut kernel, black sesame chips, stir evenly that is. Take 2 times in the morning and evening.
Effect: Benefit the kidney and nourish Yin
Applicable people: This recipe is especially suitable for presbyopia of kidney and yin deficiency.
Leek and lamb liver porridge
Ingredients: 150 grams of leek, 200 grams of lamb liver, 100 grams of rice.
Method: Wash and chop the leek, cut the lamb liver into small pieces, and cook with rice into porridge.
Efficacy: nourish liver and blood, nourish Yin, brighten the eyes.
Suitable for people: liver and blood deficiency of the eyes.