How to Prevent Eye Strain

How to Prevent Eye Strain 

There are many reasons our eyes get tired, sore, dry and red eye such as watching television, playing video game, staring at computer screen, reading and exposure to air pollutants. In long run it weakens our eye strength. Some simple exercise, precautions and home remedies can relax, reduces your eye strain and improve your eye health

Eye Exercise: 

1. Blinking: Do not forgot to blink your eyes while your work. If you will not blink your eye become dry 

2. Palming: First take a deep breath and the rub your palm together to create a bit of heat, and then form your hands into cup shapes. Now, put you warm hands on your eyes (left hand on left eye and right hand on right eye). Inhale, exhale and relax for few minutes like this. Open your hand and go around your eyebrow. Then put your fingers down below your earlobes and gently massage. Make sure you are breathing whole time. Repeat this exercise two to three times in a day. 

3. Use 20:20:20 rule on your work: look away from your computer screen reading after every 20 minutes. Gaze at a distant object at least 20 feet away, and finally do this for 20 seconds. 

4. Eye Rolling: When you are reading or working on computer and your eyes tired. Then close your eyes for a minute and rotate your eye bolls around in circular motion. This is a massage of your eyes and it will ease the strain on the muscles. 

5. Letter writing: Use your eye to write letters (bigger in size) on a distance wall but keep your head still. 

6. Horizontal (side-to-side) and Vertical (Up-Down) Movement of Eyes (Saccades): Take two white pages and mark one circle on each. Keep these two pages 3-4 feet apart from side-to-side horizontally (see below) and 2-3 feet away from your eyes. Now keep your head still and focus on each circle one by one 10 times each. Practice three times in a day. Do the same thing by keeping the circle or any other object vertically. 

7. Near – Far Saccades: Take a pencil, keep your head still and focus on it. Bring pencil towards you and touch your nose tip and then slowly move pencil far away from your nose. Keep watching pencil tip with your both eyes. Practice three times in a day. 

 Eye Protection: 

1. Use appropriate glasses to protect your eyes against direct sunlight, wind, dust and dirt and pollution. 
2. Use antiglare screen on your computer screen 
3. Take breaks every 2 hours or mini breaks 
4. Try to maintain humidity level at 50 – 60%. If not possible then wash your eyes with clean water 2 - 3 times in a day. 
5. Use adjustable reading lamp with a wide emission angle for reading. 
6. Get plenty of sleep at night so that you can strengthen your body’s defenses with relaxation, exercise, and nutrition food. 

Home Remedies:  

1. Take 8-10 almonds and two table spoon fennel seeds and add 1 table spoon rock sugar. Crush all three ingredients to make a fine powder. Store it in cool and dry place. Add one table spoon of this powder to half glass of warm milk and drink it every night. Make sure you do not eat or drink anything after 2 hours after having it. 

2. Take one cup of warm milk; add half table spoon liquorice (Muledhi) powder, quarter tea spoon clarified butter (Desi Ghee) and one tea spoon of honey mix all very well. Drink it after evening meal and before sleep. Drink it at least three months. 

3. Eat fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin A and iron. 

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