Woman`s Day editorial team on how to keep your eyes healthy for a long time.
Now everyone is discussing the scandal that happened in one of the most famous Moscow clinics – the Helmholtz Research Institute, where they treat eye diseases. Recently, information was leaked to the press that nine patients of a medical institution were blinded after being injected with a drug.
While the officials are dealing with the situation, we decided to find out how we can help ourselves on our own. We do not urge to ignore visits to doctors, but only propose to observe preventive measures so as not to know troubles.
Any ophthalmologist will tell you that gymnastics is not a joke, but a salvation for those who, in principle, see well, but work too much at the computer and therefore periodically experience discomfort in the eye area.
By the evening, it seems to you that there is sand in your eyes, your vision is decreasing? This is all from overvoltage. For such workaholics, ophthalmologists have developed several types of simple charging complexes, which will take only 10-15 minutes a day, and you will feel better.
If you have worked at the computer for an hour, then you simply must take a 10-minute break to relax your eyes.
Attention, a break is a complete rest, not an excuse to go to social networks from your phone. No screens or monitors.
If possible, it is better to go outside and walk. Or close your eyes and sit in silence, look out the window. The main thing is not to read anything and not bump into gadgets.
This is not only about pharmaceuticals. What should you include in your diet to help your eyes under extreme stress?
Look for foods rich in vitamin A: apricots, carrots, and blueberries. By the way, blueberries are called the most useful berry for the eyes, and they can even be consumed frozen. Such beneficial substances as potassium and magnesium are retained in it even after heat treatment.
Make friends with spinach and all kinds of kale.
Cook fish and eggs often.
Fall in love with lingonberry and carrot juice. Just half a glass a day – and all the necessary vitamins and minerals that improve their work will be taken out to your vessels.
And of course, you can buy special vitamin complexes for eye health at the pharmacy, for example, with blueberry extract, they have a strong antioxidant effect, improve ocular blood supply, and reduce the risk of diseases such as glaucoma and cataracts.