Eyes age faster than skin! 6 tips to maintain your eyes and look beautiful

Eyes are the windows to the soul and also little helpers in communication between people. Eyes are also fragile and need our careful protection. However, long-term exposure to electronic screens, bad mood, colorful external strong light, etc. will cause varying degrees of damage to the eyes, eventually leading to symptoms such as blurred vision and dry eyes. Protect your eyes, start by changing your "eye-loving feng shui"! Eyes play a very important role in our lives. With the changes in working environment, living environment and living habits, factors that are unfavorable to the eyes are gradually increasing. If you experience dry eyes, temporary blurred vision, etc., be sure to remind yourself to protect your eyes.

1. Keep your eyes fixed

The term "staring" is not an exaggeration when used to describe people in the E-era! The time spent using eyes has become unprecedentedly long, and the number of times of blinking has naturally decreased without noticing. The common characteristics of "screen eyes" caused by electronic pollution are frequent feelings of dryness, burning or foreign body sensation in the eyes, temporary blurred vision, and some people may also feel swelling and pain in the eyeballs or even headaches.

How to protect your eyes?

1. Adjust the computer screen to light green. Bright computer screens can irritate the eyes, so it is recommended that you adjust the screen color to light green, which is the most eye-friendly. Keep a healthy distance between your eyes and the screen, such as about 60 cm, and always remind yourself to blink more!

2. Purchase a professional eye massager. Use your lunch break to close your eyes and relax while doing acupoint massage. Relaxing your eyes every day can relieve eye fatigue and prevent myopia from getting worse.

3. Apply an eye mask before going to bed every day. Choose a soothing and cooling eye mask before going to bed to help you quickly reduce eye bags and swelling, improve dark circles under the eyes after fatigue, and also have the effect of soothing and calming anxiety.

2. Stress and bad mood damage your eyes first!

According to clinical statistics, eye fatigue and dry eyes caused by anxiety account for a large proportion. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eyes are the orifices of the liver, and nourishing the liver can improve eyesight. Modern people are prone to getting angry and being upset. Anger hurts the liver. Once the liver is congested, the eyes will also be affected. Western medicine believes that when people are in negative emotions such as tension, anxiety, and depression, the secretion of pituitary and adrenal hormones will be relatively reduced, causing the binocular visual conduction and visual information processing functions to be at a low level, resulting in incoordination of the contraction and relaxation of the lens and eye muscles, and symptoms such as headaches, eye fatigue, dryness, blurred vision, etc. Glaucoma is a typical physical and mental disease. Emotional fluctuations can lead to poor control of intraocular pressure and further aggravate the progression of the disease. Therefore, never think that your eyes are hardworking and never complain. In fact, they are also "stress-sensitive organs."

How to protect your eyes?

1. Acupoint massage relieves pressure on the eyes. Dadun point is the first point on the liver meridian, which is a meridian closely related to emotions. You can massage this point when you are in a bad mood. On the big toe, draw a horizontal line and a vertical line along the outer edge of the inner side of the toenail, and the intersection of the two lines. Massage your eyes every day before going to bed, and your eyes will thank you.

2. Do some eye exercises at noon every day. After lunch, if you are tired, you should close your eyes and take a nap, and do some "eye exercises" at the same time - close your eyes for about 2 to 3 seconds ; open your eyes as wide as possible and stay for about 2 to 3 seconds; move your eyeballs to the left and right respectively, and stay for about 2 to 3 seconds each; look up for about 2 to 3 seconds; look down and stay for about 2 to 3 seconds.

3. Green tea fumigation is simple and pleasing to the eye. Drinking green tea with cassia seed or chrysanthemum has a good eye-nourishing effect. When your eyes feel tired, you can also use green tea water at about 80 degrees to fumigate your eyes. It's very simple: hold a cup of hot green tea, slowly bring it close to your eyes, close your eyes and exhale, allowing the steam to naturally fumigate the skin of your eyes. You can do this during your work breaks.

4. Hot compress improves blood circulation around the eyes. After finishing a day's work, you might as well apply hot compress to your eyes while washing your face when you get home. Apply a hot towel to your eyes for 10 minutes to improve the circulation of blood vessels around the eyes and also have a good relaxing effect.

5. The eyes love foods rich in anthocyanins. During World War II, pilots found that their eyesight improved significantly after eating blueberries. The anthocyanins rich in blueberries can delay eye aging and improve vision. Other foods rich in anthocyanins include mulberries, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, strawberries, bayberries, purple cabbage, red amaranth, etc. You may wish to eat more of them.

The ozone layer is destroyed, and the eyes age faster than the skin!

3. Artificial visual environment with strong light and weak colors can cause eye fatigue and damage!

Dazzling glass curtain walls, smooth marble floors, rotating moving lights, colorful flashing car lights, smooth paper... they work together to place us in an "artificial visual environment" of "strong light and weak color". The intensity of ultraviolet rays they emit is far greater than that of sunlight. Long-term exposure to such conditions can damage the cornea and iris, cause visual fatigue and decreased vision, and lead to symptoms such as dizziness, mental depression, and neurasthenia.

How to protect your eyes?

1. Focus less on the glass surface of office buildings outside the window to reduce the damage to your eyes caused by light pollution. Look out twice a day in the morning and afternoon.

2. Place a pot of green plants within one meter. Ophthalmologists have found that green is the most relaxing color for the eyes. It is best for office workers to go out and enjoy the green environment after lunch. Or you can plant a pot of large-leafed, easy-to-grow green plant on your desk so that your eyes can get the comfort of green at any time.

3. When decorating your home, choose paint with a low light reflection coefficient and avoid installing shiny decorations such as mirrors and glass on the walls. It is best to choose cool colors for headlights in the living room, study and kitchen.

4. Be aware of the damage that blue light can do to your eyes. Blue light is a high-energy visible light. Excessive exposure may damage visual cells. Therefore, you should avoid direct exposure of flash lights, infrared lights from bathroom heaters, strong sunlight, etc. to your eyes. Electronic pollution makes you a "screen-obsessed" person!

4. UV damage

Experiments have shown that ultraviolet rays can damage the cornea and lens, causing cataracts and deformation of the lens. Specifically, if stratospheric ozone decreases by 1%, the global incidence of cataracts will increase by 0.6% to 0.8%. If the eyes are overexposed to the sun in the summer, more free radicals will be released, which is also an important factor in inducing myopia and corneal aging. It can be seen that the ozone layer has been destroyed and the harmful ultraviolet rays reaching the earth's surface have increased significantly. It is not only bad for skin health, but also harmful to eye health.

How to protect your eyes?

1. Wear UV-proof sunglasses when going out. When the sun is shining, be sure to wear UV-proof sunglasses when going out. Only lenses marked with "100% UV protection", "UV400", "UV protection" and other signs can protect against UV rays. Sunglasses that are not UV treated do not provide sun protection. In addition, sunglasses are not just for summer. Ophthalmologists recommend that you wear sunglasses when going out in high altitude areas with abundant sunlight and strong ultraviolet rays all year round.

2. Get a pair of photochromic myopia lenses. You are nearsighted and have been wearing glasses for a long time, so your eyes always have less protection from sunglasses than others. In fact, you can replace your lenses with high-quality photochromic lenses so that you can adjust the light sensitivity that your eyes feel most comfortable at any time according to changes in the brightness of the external environment.

3. Develop the habit of checking the UV index forecast. Always be prepared with sun protection. Try not to go out during periods of strong sunlight and rampant ultraviolet rays, such as between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

5. Air pollution harms the lungs and eyes!

Air pollution has a very bad impact on vision! Because the cornea is breathable, it constantly exchanges gases with the outside world, and 80% of the oxygen needed for its metabolism comes from the air. When the air is polluted, the harmful substances in it will inevitably enter the cornea through gas exchange. Over time, it will become an important cause of eye diseases.

How to protect your eyes?

1. Give the air around you a “bath”. The eyes love pure air. We spend 90% of our time indoors every day. If we want to improve the air quality, we can use activated carbon, bamboo charcoal, etc. to purify the air in the room. You can also buy an air purifier with strong filtering function and place it in the living room.

2. Keeping the indoor humidity at 40%~60% will make the eyes more comfortable. Air humidity has a great impact on eye health. In the dry north, in addition to a variety of green plants, it is best to place a humidifier next to the computer to increase the moisture content in the air and enhance eye comfort. Specifically, it is best to keep the ambient humidity at 40%~60%. In addition, the indoor temperature in summer should not be too high or too low. It is recommended to keep it at around 24~25℃.

3. Go on an eye-pleasing trip to the suburbs every week. On weekends, you can go on an "eye-pleasing trip" to the suburbs where the air is fresh or to scenic spots with many trees. While burning calories, let your eyes see more green trees, flowers and plants, and bathe in more pure and moist air, which will naturally make your eyes healthier. Bacteria invade, how to discharge when eyes are dirty?

6. Fusarium solani is often found in cosmetics such as mascara

Dynamic research found that before a new mascara is used, its contamination rate is only about 1.5%, but during use, its contamination rate will rise sharply to About 60%. This fusarium solani can easily cause fungal infection of the cornea. If you love beauty, you must pay attention to eye cleanliness while beautifying the "window of the soul". If cosmetics accidentally get into your eyes, you must clean them in time.