Hats and sunglasses may be a trend but they also offer precious defense – for your eyes.
While the majority of people relate the ultraviolet rays from the sun to skin damage, it is important to keep in mind that they also damage unprotected eyes. Continuous exposure to UV rays can contribute to cataracts and macular degeneration. Early protection can help trim down the threat of developing these conditions once you are older.
Note: This article is the continuation of Restoring the Freedom of Eye Sight.
Compared to other bladeless LASIK procedures, patients who uses this system goes through the flap creation and corneal reshaping in just one step.
Other LASIK methods require transferring patients from flap creation machine to the excimer laser machine (to reconstruct the cornea).
EYE and sight! Generally, eyesight is mostly connected with the ability of a person to see or not (blind). However, how about those who are not blind but do not have a clear vision?
Day by day more people in the world suffer eyesight problem, mostly shortsightedness or farsightedness and astigmatism (caused by irregularly shaped cornea). This not yet added with particular disease which resulted to declination or loss of the sense of sight.
Besides the elderly, those with family history that have eye problems, smokers and diabetes sufferer also have higher risk to get eye diseases.
Exposures to sunlight also accelerate aging process of the eyes. Furthermore, less antioxidant recruitment which protects the eyes would also makes your risk higher.
There are many theories that support free radical results of excessive sunlight exposure, air pollution and protein oxidation in the eyes can damage the macula at the retina.
When we speak about road accident, we are actually talking about three key elements of road accidents namely road user, vehicle and road condition.
The most important element in all three is the human as a road user and also as a driver. Driver quality becomes the main focus in each discussion on road problem.
