How to protect vision in myopic eyes
April 3, 2023
Nowadays, the incidence of myopia is climbing year by year, which is related to people's living habits, eye habits, nutritional balance and so on. What can we do to protect our eyesight? The following is a summary of ways to protect your eyesight, teaching you how to protect your eyesight in a comprehensive manner.
Exercise protection
By exercising the eye muscles, you can help protect your eyesight.
Far-seeing method
Looking into the distance can be done after an hour of work or study. By looking as far away as possible, especially at greenery, it helps to regulate the ciliary muscles and allows them to relax to protect your vision. When we look into the infinite distance, the sympathetic nerves become excited and the ciliary muscles can stop contracting. Looking into the distance is the most convenient and simple exercise to protect your eyesight anytime and anywhere.
Rolling your eyes
Another simple eye relaxation exercise that can be done anytime and anywhere is to rotate the eyes. Keeping your head still and controlling your eyes to rotate up, down, left and right can also help to relieve eye fatigue and protect your eyesight. You should pay attention to the fact that you can close your eyes for a little rest after turning your eyes to protect your eyesight better.
Playing table tennis
The process of playing ping pong requires the eyes to follow the ping pong ball up, down, left, right and far, which is good for relaxing and contracting the eye muscles, enhancing the blood circulation and metabolism of the eye tissue and helping to protect vision. In addition to playing table tennis, other sports with the same effect are ball games such as badminton.
Eye Exercises
Eye exercises can help relieve eye muscle tension, prevent pseudomyopia, protect vision and help refresh the mind, prevent disease, etc. by massaging the acupuncture points around the eyes. Eye exercises work by pressing the acupuncture points around the eyes to promote blood circulation around the eyes and increase the supply of nutrients to the eyes.
Exercises around the shoulders
Eye fatigue and discomfort can also be carried out around the shoulder exercise to help relax the shoulder and neck. Stiff shoulders and neck muscles can lead to dizziness, headaches, and other discomforts as a result of insufficient blood and nutrition supply to the brain. Inadequate blood supply to the eyes and poor nutrition can easily cause vision loss. The shoulder exercise can prevent cervical spondylosis and protect your eyesight.
Meditation
Sitting meditation can help relax the mind and relieve the fatigue that occurs due to mental tension causing abnormalities in the contraction function of the eye muscles, resulting in vision loss. Meditation meditation can be done by sitting or meditating, straightening the back and then relaxing the whole body, closing the eyes and focusing the mind.
Massage protection
There are many causes of vision loss, and massage can help relieve eye muscle tension and help protect vision. And through massage can also make the whole body relax.
Finger acupuncture point stimulation
Our palms also have corresponding reflex zones of the body. For example, the fingertips of the middle finger Cheng Weep point corresponds to the lower part of the eye, press the sides of the middle finger nail can help relax the solar plexus position around the eyes, and then press the little finger finger of the old eye point stimulation, can help relieve eye fatigue while preventing presbyopia, cataracts.
Scalp massage
By using a comb to stimulate the scalp massage can also help relieve vision fatigue. Because there are many nerve endings on the human scalp, information from the scalp is easily transmitted to the brain. Scalp massage with a comb can be performed with a little force and can be performed with head comb tapping to relieve vision fatigue and can also help refresh the brain.
Diet Protection
Food is the best doctor. By regulating your diet, you can also ensure that your eyesight is protected.
Tofu
Tofu has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying the body, benefiting the qi and harmonizing the middle, and moistening the dryness. It is a beneficial supplement when the body consumes a lot of protein due to aging, and it clears heat and brightens the eyes. Regular consumption of tofu can help to brighten the eyes and protect the eyesight. It can also help moisten the skin and clear heat and fire.
Carrots
Vitamin A is essential for eye protection. Carrots are rich in carotenoids, which can be converted into vitamin A in the body, which is essential for eye protection and can effectively help prevent eye problems such as dry eyes and vision loss. In addition to carrots, you can also eat more like leeks, sweet potatoes, persimmons, oranges and so on can help protect your eyes.
Eggs
Eggs are rich in protein, which is an indispensable nutrient for the corneas, crystal bodies and retinas of the eyes, and once lacking, cataracts, corneal lesions and other periocular diseases can easily occur. In addition to eggs, there are other protein-rich products such as meat, fish and shrimp, milk and beans.
You can't lack nutrition to protect your eyesight, but you can't have too much of it either. It is important to pay attention to a balanced nutrition in your diet.
Wearing colored glasses
Wearing tinted glasses at certain times can help protect your eyesight. For example, in the summer when the sun is blinding, strong sunlight will cause eye irritation, eye damage, choose to wear blue, green or dark blue glasses can help protect vision; winter snow can choose to wear yellow, brown eyes out to protect vision. But be careful to choose better quality tinted glasses to play a role in protecting your eyesight, otherwise it will hurt your eyes.
Correct reading and writing posture
Many students have the wrong posture for reading and writing, reading books on their stomachs, keeping their eyes too close to the books, etc., so that they put on glasses at a young age. The correct reading and writing posture should be when reading books and eyes should be about 33 cm apart, the line of sight is best to maintain a vertical angle with the book; when writing, the chest should be a fist distance from the table, the eyes are also separated from the book 33 cm, the pencil and the book into a 60 degree angle.
Good eye environment
The improvement of the eye environment can help protect vision. First, you need to ensure that the height of the seat is in line with the specific height, which can help improve sitting posture and also help relax the shoulders and neck to prevent shoulder and neck discomfort; second, we should pay attention to the lighting situation, not backlighting, not in a dim place to use the eyes to study, and avoid direct glare on the eyes.
Learn to watch TV
Many people, especially children, like to watch television. Coupled with the improvement of living conditions now, more and more electronic products around our lives. Watching television for a long time using electronic products is easy to cause eye discomfort, resulting in vision loss. If you want to watch TV, you can move around every forty-five minutes to better protect your eyesight.