How to keep your eyes healthy in summer
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It is recommended to select a concentration of 75 to 80% for sunglasses lenses. [사진=게티이미지뱅크]As the scorching heat and strong ultraviolet rays continued, eye health also took an emergency. In particular, in summer, high temperature and humidity are a good environment for viruses to live in, so you need to pay special attention to eye health.
contagious viral conjunctivitis
You can often find people who get ‘viral conjunctivitis’ after visiting a swimming pool or water park that they often visit during vacation. Commonly called eye disease, it is highly contagious and causes infection through direct contact with the patient’s eye secretions or through swimming pool water. In the beginning, it starts with congestion in one eye, and symptoms such as eye mucus, eyelid edema, tearing, and foreign body sensation appear, and after a few days, the same symptoms often occur in the other eye.
In order to prevent conjunctivitis, it is important to thoroughly manage personal hygiene in daily life. Wash your hands frequently, avoid touching your eyes as much as possible, and avoid wearing contact lenses when possible, as the risk of infection increases if you wear contact lenses.
Dry eye syndrome caused by air conditioning
Dry eye syndrome is a disease in which tears are insufficient and dry, resulting in various symptoms such as sore eyes, stiffness, and fatigue. This occurs when there are few eye blinks while using a smartphone, but dry eye syndrome may be aggravated by low humidity when a fan or air conditioner is continuously blown.
Therefore, it is recommended to ventilate the indoor air to control the humidity, and it is recommended not to use a fan or air conditioner that evaporates tears directly along with adequate hydration, and it is also recommended to use artificial tears when you feel very dry.
How to protect your eyes from UV rays?
In order to protect your eyes from UV rays, it is good to reduce the time of outdoor activities or absolute exposure to sunlight for a long time. If you have to go out for a long time inevitably, it is good to wear sunglasses and a hat to prevent your eyes from being exposed to UV rays.
It is recommended to select a concentration of 75 to 80% for sunglasses lenses. Most sunglasses have the effect of blocking UV rays, but sunglasses sold at very low prices or sunglasses for children’s toys may not block UV rays.
It is often thought that the darker the color of the lens, the higher the UV protection effect. Therefore, it is better to choose a lens with a concentration of 75 to 80%, and this can be thought of as the degree to which the wearer’s eyes are visible when wearing sunglasses.
In addition, if the size of the lens is small, it cannot sufficiently block ultraviolet rays coming around the sunglasses. Therefore, if the size of the lens is small, a parasol or a wide-brimmed hat should be used as an aid to block ultraviolet rays.
2023-07-23 09:40:15
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