Your Guide to Eye Care

By Shannon Frye, published Mar 22, 2007
Published Content: 849  Total Views: 402,613  Favorited By: 3 CPs
Embed:  
Rating: 4.0 of 5
Taking proper care of your eyes is essential. You need to go and see an eye doctor and get your eyes checked at least every 2 years. If you wear glasses you need to go to the eye doctor every 2 years and if you wear contacts you need to get an eye exam every year. If you have contacts and your eyes seem irritated you need to take out your contacts immediately. You should always have a pair of glasses as a back up plan when the contacts begin to irritate your eyes.

If your eyes are bloodshot you should try buying eye drops to put in your eyes. The main reason for bloodshot eyes is that your eyes are too dryed out. If you have contacts and your eyes are bloodshot you either need to take out the contacts every night or buy contacts with hydroclear which moisten your eyes. You will also need to get your eyes tested for glaucoma and stigmatisms. Even with a stigmatism you can still wear glasses and contacts.

Your eyes may get stronger or weaker as time passes. If you usually wear contacts, switching to glasses will strengthen your eyes and you will notice at your next eye exam that one or both of your eyes is better than the other. If you wear contacts you will need to remove the contacts at night unless they are made for continous wear. You will always need to change the contacts at the time stated by your eye doctor unless you want to hurt your eyes and have buildup on your eyes and contact lenses.

If you do not take care of your eyes you will not notice the side effects until it is too late. By the time you realize how bad you're eyes have gotten there's nothing you can do to reverse the process. The best idea is to take care of your eyes now before it's too late to do anything about it. Make sure that if your eyes are dryed out you bring along eye drops to moisten them. If your eyes are irritated you will need to see the eye doctor because there could be more serious problems brewwing.

Comments
Showing Comment 1 of 1
 
 
Very informative article. I never realized anything about eye care until I got hit with Bell's Palsy and one eye doesn't blink often enough. Thanks for writing this.

Posted on 06/26/2007 at 9:06:00 PM

Type in Your Comments Below - (1000 characters left)
Your name:

Submit your own content on this or any topic. Get started »
Showing Comment 1 of 1
 
Most Commented On