If you want to be better to your eyes, please get enough sleep!

Sleep is an essential part of our lives, and the quality of sleep is closely related to human health. Many young people stay up late playing with their mobile phones, worrying about becoming bald. Staying up late seems to have become a common problem for urbanites.

Recently, the China Sleep Research Society released the "2025 China Sleep Health Survey Report". This is the first objective, scientific and authoritative sleep data report in my country. The report points out that sleep disturbances include going to the toilet at night, waking up easily or early at night, and difficulty falling asleep. The results show that the sleep disturbance rate of people aged 18 and above in China is 48.5%.

Many people know that long-term lack of sleep and staying up late may cause dark circles, memory loss, mood swings, damage the balance of the body's immune system, disrupt secretion functions, and create conditions for the occurrence and deterioration of many types of diseases such as neurological, cardiovascular, and metabolic diseases. Not only that, lack of sleep also affects our eye health. Let's take stock of the related diseases that may occur.

Dry eyes

People who often stay up late or have poor sleep quality are one of the high-risk groups for dry eyes. Staying up late can easily cause eye fatigue, and many people like to stay up late playing with their mobile phones and computers, which can further damage the eyes and easily cause adverse symptoms such as dry eyes, tearing, photophobia, and foreign body sensation.

The ocular surface will be well nourished and restored during sleep. Even if you have dry eyes, good sleep will give the ocular surface a chance to recover and compensate for the dry eyes. Therefore, staying up late less and getting more sleep are also good habits to protect your eyes.

Medium pulp

The official name of "central serous chorioretinopathy" is central serous chorioretinopathy, which is a disease characterized by local shallow detachment of the macula serous retina (formation of subretinal fluid). When staying up late or under great pressure, the human body initiates an emergency response, the sympathetic system becomes excited, causing the choroidal blood vessels in the eye to dilate and the blood flow to increase. If this continues for a long time, fluid will accumulate under the retinal pigment epithelium, and as the pressure increases, the serous detachment of the upper layer of the pigment epithelium will break through.

Ouyang Zhenglong from the Department of Fundus Trauma of Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital said that mesothelioma is more common in people aged 20 to 50, and is more common in men. If the patient suddenly experiences a slight decrease in monocular vision, darkening or yellowing of vision, deformation or distortion of vision, and a relatively dark area in the center, a migraine-like headache may occur before the vision changes. The prognosis of the disease is good, but it is still possible to relapse and may develop into chronic or even irreversible visual function damage. If the above symptoms occur, you should seek medical attention in time.

Retinal vascular disease

Staying up late and using electronic products for a long time can easily lead to eye vasospasm and abnormal hemodynamics. Urban people sit for a long time, have great mental stress, and increase blood viscosity, which can easily induce retinal vein occlusion. Staying up late, being nervous, and having big mood swings can easily lead to vasospasm, causing temporary vision loss, and inducing retinal artery occlusion.

Dr. Ouyang Zhenglong reminds:

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Retinal artery occlusion is a serious eye disease with acute vision loss. If the retina is not supplied with enough blood, the retinal neurons will die quickly. These neurons cannot regenerate and the eye may become blind. The treatment time is only 90 minutes.

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Retinal vein occlusion is roughly divided into central vein occlusion and branch vein occlusion. Regardless of the cause, it may cause varying degrees of bleeding and even the risk of inducing serious eye diseases such as glaucoma.

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The symptoms of retinal arteriovenous ischemia are sudden painless vision loss and visual field loss. You must pay attention to it and go to a regular hospital for examination and treatment.

High myopia-related fundus lesions

We can easily find that many times we stay up late playing with our mobile phones. Some friends even lie down in the dark to play with their mobile phones. The constant changes in light and shadow cause continuous stimulation to the eyes, which often makes it very strenuous to use the eyes. The continuous tension of the ciliary muscles may accelerate the growth of the eye axis, causing myopia to deepen and even develop into high myopia, which increases the risk of inducing fundus lesions related to high myopia.

Dr. Ouyang Zhenglong reminds: High myopia (≥600 degrees) has a more fragile fundus than the average person due to the excessively long eye axis and thin retina, and it has a higher risk of complications, such as retinal tears, detachment, macular degeneration, retinal vascular degeneration, etc.

glaucoma

Staying up late for a long time can cause excessive eye fatigue and increased intraocular pressure, which can in turn induce glaucoma, especially for people with abnormal eye structures (such as shallow anterior chamber and narrow chamber angle).

Many people like to turn off the lights before going to bed and play with their phones. They forget the time while playing. Lack of sleep will cause the pupils to dilate, resulting in a narrowing of the chamber angle, which will hinder the outflow of aqueous humor and further increase intraocular pressure, which may induce acute angle-closure glaucoma. It will accelerate the occurrence of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.

Staying up late for a long time will disrupt the body's normal metabolism, cause biological rhythm disorders, lead to rising blood sugar, fatigue will reduce physical activity, reduce energy consumption, and further increase the risk of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes.

Chronic systemic diseases such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia not only pose a huge threat to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, but also cause serious damage to our eyes, such as diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive retinopathy, and hyperlipidemia macular degeneration.

Confirmed patients are a high-risk group for fundus lesions. In addition to taking good care of their own health, stabilizing blood sugar and blood pressure, maintaining a normal weight, not staying up late, and ensuring adequate rest, they must also go to professional medical institutions regularly to check their fundus, so as to achieve early screening, early detection, and early treatment. Don't let the thief of vision steal your clear life.