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In today’s time, weak eyesight is common, and one of the main reasons is our laptop, smartphone light, which hit directly our eye, that cause dry eyes and blur vision.
Globally, at least 2.2 billion people have a near or distance vision issue, and India and China alone together account for 48% of the world’s total burden and blindness and visual impairment.
In India, about 41% of children (under 18 years) are suffering from low vision, about 42% of workers, and drivers, and 45% elder people are similar.
Even nowadays blur vision, is being seen quite a lot in children too, due to spending more time on the mobile, and laptop screen.
Weak eyesight can include blind spots, poor night vision, and blurry sight, which leads to eyeglasses at a young age, it is also due to age-related macular degeneration and diabetes.
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1. Causes
Poor eyesight leads to other common health problems, such as:
- Decreased confidence
- red-eye
- headache, which is not good for health in the long term
Here are some common reasons, and which might be a reason for your weak eyesight. which include:
Spending Too Much Time In Mobile and Laptop screen
This is one of the major reasons for weak eyesight in most people.
In children, playing mobile games, (even without blinking eyes), leads to dry eyes, which causes blur eyes at a young age.
In today’s time, most of the office work is also being done on the computer screen, due to which dry eyes, blurry vision, and other health concerns are becoming common.
So make sure to always protect your eye with glasses, and after every 30 minutes, wash your eyes with cold water.
Low Water Intake
Dehydration affects our overall health, if you are not properly hydrated, your eyes can suffer from low tears, dryness, and irritation, which result in blurry and discomfort vision.
So make sure, drink plenty of water (around 2 to 2.5 liters a day), pregnant, and breastfeeding women need more water required.
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Smoking
Studies showed that smoking increases the risk of age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy, and dry eye syndrome (1).
Even, smokers are more prone to cataracts, (A cloudiness over the lens of the eye), and AMD (age-related macular degeneration) compared to non-smokers.
Work on Dim or Bright Light
For example – working in an industrial area where the bright light falls on the eyes.
And working or reading in very dim light can lead to a similar effect as bright light.
Dim light will put more emphasis on your eyes and will be responsible for more water from your eyes, so make avoid reading or working on dim screen light.
Bright light can damage your eyes, In this case, the retina becomes over-stimulated, which releases massive amounts of signaling chemicals, resulting can damage to the eye back.
Poor Diet
A poor diet causes obesity, heart attack, stomach problem, liver, kidney issues, and even cancer which can damage the nervous system, including eyesight.
If you do not take a good diet, then your eyes will not get essential nutrients like Lutein, Zeaxanthin, vitamins A, C, E, Zinc, etc.
NOTE: A medical story published in the Annals of internal medicine, journal in 2019 featured a 17-year-old- a boy who had become blind due to a poor diet.
Lack of sleep
Be Staying awake for long long hours can make the problem worse, which leads to red eyes, irritation, more blur vision. sleep refresh your eyes, with essential nutrients.
Sufficient sleep may help to reduce the risk of developing some chronic illness, keep your brain healthy, and also boost the Immune system.
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2. Symptoms And Signs
Signs and Symptoms of weak eyesight. they include:
- Change in vision
- Blur or double vision
- Sudden eye pain
- Difficulty in focus
- Water eyes, burning
- Eye irritation, or pain, expecially after working
- Red eyes, and swollen
- Change in the color of the iris
- White area affect
- Increased sensitivity of light
Symptoms can be seen in low after wake up.
3. Which Eyesight Number Is Considered Bad?
First know, there are certain listed numbers that refer to the focusing power prescribed. the unit of measurement is called a diopter.
If Ophthalmologists (eye doctors) say to you, that your eye number is 1+ its means you are hyperopia. If says 1- indicates myopia.
NOTE: Myopia means that a person can see close up but has problems with seeing things far away.
If your eye number is considered this, so they indicate:
- A number between +/-.025 to +/-2.00 is considered mild.
- If your number between +/-2.25 to +/- 5.00 is considered moderate.
- A number greater than +/- 5.00 is considered severe.
Eye numbers can change over time. and if your number is 0.5, so it occurs to almost everyone. Generally, the further away from zero (+ or -), the worse the eyesight.
4. Weak Eyesight In Children
Nowadays children start spending more of their time on mobile and laptop screens from a very young age, due to this they wear glasses at a very young age.
Myopia is the most common refractive error seen in children (3).
NOTE: Did you know, people wearing spectrum has increased 4 times in just 10 years, the reason found out to be is that excessive exposure to computer and mobile phone.
5. Who At More Risk of Weak Eyesight?
It is not a disease, anyone can be affected by weak vision, due to a variety of reasons, injuries, or diseases, but there are certain people that are more prone to weak eyesight. they include:
- Older people
- Who spend more time on laptop or mobile screen
- Smoker
- Any eye disorder
- Peoples, who work on dim light or bright light
- Run mobile in the dark area or room
- Poor diet
6. How To Improve Eyesight?
There are some simple tricks and tacks which you should try at least once a time.
Modern medical offers no solution other than surgery.
On the other hand, Ayurveda set simple practices through which thousands of people already recover lost vision.
Ayurveda clearly respects that irrespective what your age, all you need is a few natural ingredients, and a strong determination to get rid of spects forever.
Eye wash
Fill your mouthful with water, this expands the eye muscle properly, now splash cold water on the eyes on few times, this will give an instant cooling effect to the eyes.
Rose water wash
You need to buy one eye wash cup, easily available in optical and ayurvedic shops.
- Put 15 drops of pure rose water, along with cold water in it.
- Now place it on one eye first, ensure that the water doesn’t spill out from the side.
- Open your eye, and let the rose water touch the eye surface.
- Move your puppy in all directions, so that the water gets circulated properly inside the eye. (do this same to the next eye)
- Do this for 10 minutes.
Eye Tonic
This powerful eye tonic nourishes the nervous of the eyes helping reach the lost vision.
- Take soaked and piled almonds, especially Gurbandi almonds.
- Along with this new need 4 seeds of whole black pepper, now add thread mishri (optional) Make a paste of these ingredients.
- Put one glass of milk in a bowl now add the paste in it, boil for 10 minutes.
Do not strain out the mixture, and drink slowly, let the nourish the eye, make sure do not eat anything for the next 1 hour.
Essential Tips
- Take a break after every 30 minutes, close your eyes, sip water.
- Relax your eyes, rub your palms and place on eyes.
- Whenever you free, press points do exercise
- Whenever you go to the washroom, be sure to wash your eyes.
Make sure, to avoid spending time on mobile and computer if you really care about your eyes.
Do and Don’t
| Do | Don’t |
| Blink more often, which prevents drying of eyes. | Avoid walking barefoot, which weakens the eye muscles |
| Sleep in the darkroom, avoid dim light | Smoking or direct hit pollution can negatively affect your eyes health, avoid it, and wear eyeglasses. |
| Protect your eyes from heat, wear sunglasses | Avoid rubbing eyes, most of the time |
| Consume one Amla a day | Make sure, avoid fast food, as possible as |
| Use screen guard (reading mode) | Eat eye-strengthening foods (carrot, ghee, Moong dal) |
| Make sure, to avoid fast food, as possible as | |
| Practice serving asana, which increases blood circulation to the eyes. |
BOTTOM LINE
A medical story published in the annals of internal medicine, journal in 2019 featured a 17-year-old- a boy who had become blind due to a poor diet.
People wearing spectrum has increased 4 times in just 10 years, the reason found out to be is that excessive exposure to computer and mobile phone.
NOTE: Myopia means that a person can see close up but has problems with seeing things far away.
Sufficient sleep may help to reduce the risk of developing some chronic illness, keep your brain healthy, and also boost the Immune system.
