What's wrong with dry eyes and tears? Be careful of dry eyes

If your eyes are dry and tearful, then you should be careful about dry eye syndrome, which is a very common eye disease, especially among people who often sit in front of computers. You can apply a hot towel to your eyes or use eye drops, and do eye exercises more often.

1. What causes dry eyes?

1. Among these ophthalmic diseases, dry eye syndrome is the most typical. Dry eye syndrome is also known as sicca conjunctivitis keratitis. Wind, dust, environmental pollution, long-term computer use, wearing contact lenses, age and physiological factors (such as menopausal syndrome) and certain eye diseases can all cause dry eye syndrome. Certain anti-allergic drugs, cold medicines, and contraceptives also affect the production and composition of tears.

2. Dry eyes are not just a symptom of the eyes, but an ophthalmic disease that mostly affects computer workers, office workers and drivers. This is because the eyes are facing the computer for a long time in an air-conditioned environment, which can easily cause dry eyes. In addition, due to work stress, the number of eye blinks will unconsciously decrease, thereby affecting the function of the tear glands and causing dry eyes.

3. In addition, since contact lenses easily absorb moisture and cause dehydration of the eye surface, improper wearing of contact lenses can also lead to dry eyes. Even highly breathable products are not worth a one-time loss.

4. If you do not use care solution in time to keep the contact lenses moist when your eyes are dry, it will cause the contact lenses to dry out and deform, and then wear the cornea.

5. What is even more worrying is that since the early symptoms of dry eyes are often mistaken for work fatigue or excessive stress, most patients with dry eyes will not go to an ophthalmologist for treatment, but will just buy a bottle of eye drops. Some people even use saline solution to disinfect their eyes. In fact, this will only delay the disease, aggravate the symptoms of dry eyes, and even eventually lead to blindness.

2. How to relieve dry eyes

1. Apply hot towel to eyes for 10 minutes

Hot compress can promote blood circulation in the eyes and help restore the function of the meibomian glands, thus preventing dry eyes caused by meibomian gland dysfunction.

2. Eye drops

Whether eye drops can moisturize the eyes depends on two factors: the ingredients of the drops and the frequency of application. Eye drops with certain ingredients are not suitable for healthy eyes, and if you have an eye disease, you need symptomatic treatment. Using appropriate eye drops too frequently may also damage your eyes.

3. Drink green tea, oolong tea or Tieguanyin tea regularly

Tea is rich in carotene, which can be converted into vitamin A in the human body. Vitamin A has health benefits for people who often use computers. It can not only reduce the harm of computer radiation to the human body, but also prevent dry eye syndrome.

4. Yawning and sour plums

It is certainly possible to use yawning to moisten your eyes with tears, but you can't just yawn whenever you want. Some people have reported that holding sour plums in the mouth is a good way to stimulate tears.

5. Eye exercises

It can promote blood circulation in the eyes and relieve eye fatigue.

6. Apply eye cream

Not all eye creams can moisturize the eyes. Some eye creams of inferior quality or with special ingredients may even irritate the eyes. Pay attention to the ingredients of eye cream and do not use it indiscriminately.

7. Rinse eyes with warm water

Pay attention to ensure the cleanliness of the water, otherwise unclean water can also cause eye diseases.