Pay attention to your eye health during the Spring Festival holiday, and keep this eye disease prevention checklist!

The Spring Festival is coming soon. Due to the differences in environment, mood, diet, etc., the festival has become a high incidence period for eye diseases. Experts remind that everyone hopes to have a safe and healthy New Year, so they should always pay attention to their physical health, especially the health of their eyes. So what eye diseases do different groups of people need to focus on preventing during the Spring Festival?

"child"

Prevent myopia and eye injuries

Children often do not have good self-control like adults. Faced with a lot of free time, they are likely to indulge themselves in games. Many students suffer from myopia. If they do not pay attention to eye protection, their myopia may increase in the short term. Especially in the modern era of advanced technology, there are a variety of electronic entertainment products, which will hurt their eyes invisibly. Therefore, during the holidays, teenagers should learn to take extra care of their eyes and stay away from myopia.

Moreover, adolescents and children are curious, active, and imitative. At the same time, they have poor self-protection awareness and are easily harmed by trauma. Firecrackers, plastic marbles, sand, chopsticks, glass, pencils and other daily objects may become "murderers" of eye injuries. Parents should strengthen children's understanding of the causes and hazards of eye injuries, let children increase their self-protection awareness, and take the initiative to stay away from dangerous objects and people.

"young people"

Prevent myopia from getting worse and dry eyes

Many people believe that myopia will not worsen after people reach adulthood, but this is not true. If you use your eyes unhealthily for a long time, your myopia may worsen. In addition, pathological myopia may also cause myopia to worsen after adulthood, and bring a series of complications.

In addition, watching TV, surfing the Internet, and playing games for a long time during the Spring Festival will cause the eyes to become dry, itchy, painful, and have symptoms such as redness, burning or foreign body sensation, which can easily cause dry eye syndrome.

Young people who suffer from myopia should pay attention to proper eye use during the Spring Festival, and try to avoid excessive eye use and adverse visual stimulation. In addition, they should also correctly correct refractive errors and wear suitable glasses. When your eyes feel dry and uncomfortable, you should let your eyes rest more and apply hot compresses. When you are free, you may wish to use the holiday to go to a professional and regular ophthalmology hospital for a comprehensive eye examination to understand whether your eyes are healthy.

Middle-aged and elderly people

Actively prevent and treat glaucoma, retinal hemorrhage, etc.

As the saying goes, an old person in the family is like a treasure. During the Spring Festival, many elderly people look forward to the rare family reunion when their children return home. In this happy atmosphere, the elderly should not forget to take care of their health, especially the health of their eyes.

Middle-aged and elderly people should be especially careful about acute angle-closure glaucoma. There are many happy events during the Spring Festival, and people's emotions fluctuate greatly, plus eye fatigue. If middle-aged and elderly people feel eye swelling, eye pain, headache, nausea and vomiting, decreased vision, and rainbow-like halos when looking at things, they should seek medical attention in time.

Patients with hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and diabetes are at high risk of retinal hemorrhage. The symptoms of retinal hemorrhage include decreased vision and floating black shadows in front of the eyes.

For elderly people suffering from presbyopia, it is a good idea to do more health care during the holidays to keep their eyes young and energetic.

For example: 1. Actively move your eyes and blink frequently. This can improve blood circulation in the eye muscles and refresh your eyes. 2. Apply hot compresses to protect your eyes. Apply a hot towel to your eyes and change it several times to keep blood vessels in the eyes flowing smoothly and supply oxygen and nutrients to the eye muscles.

Finally, I would like to remind everyone that although these are just small details in daily life, the purpose is to hope that everyone will pay more attention to eye hygiene and safety, have healthy and bright eyes, and celebrate the New Year happily.

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Expertise: Combining Chinese and Western medicine to treat dry eyes, cataracts, children's eye diseases, and fundus diseases

Wang Zhiqiang: Doctor of Medicine, Associate Chief Physician, Director of Ophthalmology. He is also Secretary General of Ophthalmology Branch of Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine Information, Chairman of Science Popularization and Health Education Working Committee of China Medical Education Association, Vice President of TCM Hospital Management Branch of Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine Information, Deputy Secretary General of Ophthalmology Professional Committee of Chinese and Western Medicine Physician Branch of Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Executive Director of Ophthalmology Branch of Chinese Society of Ethnic Medicine, Vice President of Young Physician Branch of China Association for the Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Member of Ophthalmology Branch of China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Director of Ophthalmology Professional Committee of World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, and Beijing Science Popularization Expert.
He is good at combining traditional Chinese and western medicine to treat myopia, amblyopia, pediatric blepharospasm, dry eyes, age-related macular degeneration, optic atrophy, glaucoma, menopausal eye diseases and other ophthalmic diseases. He is good at cataract, glaucoma, vitreous cavity injection, tear duct, pterygium, eyelid plastic surgery and other surgeries. In the treatment of eye diseases, he advocates the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine, giving full play to the advantages of both Chinese and western medicine, in order to help patients to the greatest extent. In clinical practice, he comprehensively uses traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment methods, harmonizes internal and external treatments, and treats both the symptoms and the root causes. He has rich experience in the treatment of many common and difficult ophthalmic diseases such as juvenile myopia, blepharospasm, diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, ischemic optic neuropathy, optic atrophy, retinitis pigmentosa, high myopia retinal diseases, thyroid-related eye diseases, orbital inflammatory pseudotumors, etc.
He has edited and participated in 3 professional books, undertaken and participated in more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial projects, and published more than 20 papers in professional core journals. He is an expert in setting questions for the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine's regular training examination and professional title examination. He has served as a teacher in the Neijing Teaching and Research Section of the Western Medicine and Chinese Medicine Class of Xiyuan Hospital of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, a teacher of clinical students at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Binzhou Medical College, a teacher of Beijing and district-level continuing education projects, and also teaches ophthalmology graduate students and international students. He is keen on popularizing ophthalmic knowledge and has been invited to participate in the recording of TV and radio popular science programs and publish various popular science articles many times. He won the third prize in the 2017 National Popular Science Competition on behalf of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.