As winter comes, my eyes feel very dry compared to summer. Many people around me are suffering from dry eyes. Today, let's learn about dry eyes and learn how to prevent them!
What is dry eye?
Dry eye syndrome is a disease that can be easily found in modern people and is called dry eye syndrome or dry eye syndrome in Korea. In other words, it can be described as the feeling of rolling grains of sand or the burning feeling of soap. As such, if you have dry eyes, it means that you feel a lot of discomfort in your daily life, and furthermore, it can cause poor vision, so it is very important to take care of yourself. Then, through self-diagnosis, if you have more than three, you should suspect that you have dry eyes.
Self-diagnosis simple test
1. When you wake up in the morning, your eyes are stiff and bloodshot.
2. If you wear lens, you can feel a foreign body and easily get tired.
3. If you look at the computer monitor for a long time, your eyes become dim and you get headaches.
4. Tears flow in the air conditioning air.
5. The eyelid is often inflamed.
6. When I wake up from sleep, my eyelids stick together and I can't open them well.
7. My eyes look blurry, I feel pain, and I feel like I have lost my eyesight.
8. It's hard to use contact lenses
9. The glare phenomenon is severe and burning.
10. Eye boogers often appear and thread-like secretions come out.
11. It's hard to open your eyes properly in a bright place
12. The view looks hazy and overlapping.
13. Things look blurry or shaky.
14. It is difficult to drive at night
15. My eyes keep closing when I watch TV or read.
16. My eyes are itchy and stingy after going out
17. Tears come from the cold wind.
18. It gets worse when you are emotionally sad or stressed.
19. Severe symptoms appear only in one eye.
If there are more than three on the self-diagnosis checklist, it may be in its early stages or already in progress, so it is recommended that you visit an ophthalmologist and get accurate treatment for dry eyes.
Symptoms of dry eyes
A sense of foreign substance
If you raise your eyelids, you may feel a foreign feeling due to the cornea and skin friction of your eyes. Usually, you can feel uncomfortable as if your eyes are in them, and you feel like you have less power to open your eyes than usual.
Eye irritation and excessive tear secretion
Dry eyes are said to cause symptoms of cold eyes and continuous tears. When it comes to dry eyes, you may know that it is because your eyes are dry at first, but these symptoms are not caused by a lot of water in your eyes, but because water is not adsorbed and flows out. You may experience eye irritation when your eyes are cold while you are looking at something, and you may not be able to keep your eyes open for long.
Congestion
Among the symptoms of dry eye, one or both eyes may suffer from congestion. These symptoms can be mistaken for congestion due to not getting enough rest, but it can be said that the characteristic is that the eyeball is congestion despite getting enough sleep.
Blinding
I didn't have any glare symptoms when I went outside or in my daily life, but when dry eyes occur, the sunlight is more stimulated and I feel very uncomfortable seeing the sunlight.
A loss of sight
It is stiff and itchy due to insufficient moisture in the eyeball, so you press and rub your eyes with your hands, and in this case, it can cause direct damage to the cornea and in severe cases, it can reduce vision. In addition, allergic conjunctivitis and eye inflammation may be accompanied.
Prevention and Treatment of Dry Eye
dry eye treatment
Supplying Tears Through Artificial Leaks The most common treatment for dry eye is to supply insufficient tear components using artificial leaks. It's a good idea to always carry an artificial leak and keep it on your eyes whenever you feel uncomfortable. There are many types of eye drops, such as ointment form and dilute jelly form, which is halfway between eye drops and ointment, so it is recommended to choose something that is convenient for your eyes.
It is said that IPL (Intense Pulled Light) treatment can be helpful for dry eyes caused by eye inflammation. Eyelid Cleaning Eyelid cleaning can restore the fat layer of tears, reducing the evaporation of tears and improving 'facial dryness'. Apply clean saline solution or ointment prescribed by ophthalmology to the cotton swab and wipe the area where the eyelashes come out about 2-3 times a day.
How to prevent dry eyes
Take care of your stress and get enough sleep. Stress treatment and getting enough sleep are very helpful in preventing dry eyes. In particular, just by sleeping well and resting your eyes can prevent dry eyes. Also, avoid direct wind entering the eye (hairdryers, car heaters, air conditioners or fans, warmers) - It is recommended to stay away from air conditioner-drying appliances such as warmers. In particular, warmers and air conditioners can irritate the eyes and dry them out because hot and cold winds come out, so be careful.
Using a humidifier in winter is also very helpful for dry eyes. It's also good to wear sunglasses or other protective glasses. You can wear sunglasses or protective glasses to block the wind and dry air. And give your eyes time to rest during long winter work: If you read or do other tasks that require visual focus, you should periodically give your eyes rest.
If you are a frequent user of computers, it is known that the computer screen is positioned lower than the eye level - if the computer screen is higher than the eye level, the eyes will open wide. That's why it's a good idea to keep your computer screen below your eye level. This can help slow the evaporation of tears between blinking eyes. Long-term use of TVs and smartphones is also bad for dry eyes, so regularly staring at long distances in between uses is also very helpful in preventing dry eyes.
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