10 Smart Ways To Help Keep Your Eyes Healthy

While you may not consider yourself handy and not fond of how you look in safety glasses, don’t risk your sight by blowing off wearing eye protection for DIY home projects, no matter how small.

Many eye injuries from people doing something simple like hanging a picture and a piece of a nail or the frame breaks off and ends up in their eye.

Every day, thousands have on-the-job eye injuries, 90 per cent of which could have been prevented by simply wearing protective eyewear – common sense!

Inevitably, as we age, the oil glands in our eyelids get clogged and don’t secrete enough oil into our tear supply which leads to dry eye.

Placing warm compresses on our eyelids helps to liquefy the oil so that it flows freely into your tear supply and helps to keep our eyes lubricated.

Making a warm compress is simple: just wet a clean washcloth with warm water and press it against your eyelids for a minute – your eyes will thank you!

Among the many ways that smoking harms your health, it also damages the blood vessels that supply blood and nutrients to your optic nerve. Smoking also increases your chance of developing cataracts and age-related macular degeneration.

The British Optical Association says that all adults between the ages of 18 and 60 visit their optician to get a comprehensive eye exam at least every other year –  this is so important as many eye diseases have little or no warning signs.

But with regular eye exams, your optician can detect these conditions in their early stages when they’re easier to treat before there is any vision loss. Many eye conditions can be controlled or even reversed if they’re caught early.