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How to Care for Your Eyes and Ways to Prevent or Avoid Blindness

Here are some tips, cues or pointers to keep your eyes healthy or avoid diseases:

1. Women who are capable of giving birth should have rubella vaccine. If you are planning to have children, you may get a rubella vaccination. Less expensive and simple, it is a way of protecting your baby from a retina disease and disability.
2. If you have suspicion that your child has problems with vision, have him/her see and eye doctor for proper refraction and screening for amblyopia.
3. Wear sunglasses when basking under the heat of the sun to protect you from ultra-violet (UV) rays.
4. Don’t abuse your eyes. Avoid reading in the dark or in a moving vehicle, for this will surely create eyestrain.  So also, rest your eyes when using computer at a long time.
5. Be cautious with eye safety while at work or playing. Avoid letting your kids play with sharp-pointed objects especially when there are no adults to watch over them. See to it that child’s school Chemistry class or laboratory have goggle while conducting various experiments. If any chemical gets in to the eye of your child’s eye, wash it immediately with ample amount of water. Wearing protective goggle whilst doing carpentry is a must too. Never remove any tough object in the eye with a hair strand or a tweezer, if in case an accident happens. Call an eye doctor to remove the object from the victim.
6. Do not utilize eye remedies like extracts from some herbs, breast milk or even urine which traditions tell so. Herbal extracts may contain fungi, urine maybe infected with bacterium that can be attributed by gonorrhea. Consult an expert eye doctor to have a proper diagnosis and treatment.
7. Control your blood pressure, blood sugar and blood cholesterol. Eyes can be affected by hypertension, diabetes mellitus and astroscleorosis.
8. See and consult an eye ophthalmologist if ever you reach the age of 40. Diseases that can cause blindness like Glaucoma have no signs or symptoms.
9. Always seek second opinion whenever your eye doctor tells you to have an eye surgery.
10. Check the credibility of your doctor. Select an eye doctor that you are comfortable with and you can trust.