Summer is a good time to visit mountains and rivers, and you need healthy eyes to appreciate the beautiful scenery. Here, we will introduce to you how to protect your eyesight in summer with regard to several seemingly ordinary eye habits in daily life.

What to do if you wear contact lenses
Wearing contact lenses is prone to infection in summer. Protective measures: In summer, it is easy to sweat and the eyelids are polluted with oil. Improper wearing of contact lenses is prone to eye infections. When wearing contact lenses, lens cleaning and maintenance work is particularly important. Before and after wearing contact lenses, pay special attention to hand hygiene, especially fingers that often touch the lenses.

To clean and maintain contact lenses, you need to do a few steps of rinsing, rubbing, and soaking carefully to ensure the cleanliness and health of contact lenses and eyes. If you blink for a long time, you can use a special wetting fluid for contact lenses every 2 to 4 hours to maintain the humidity of your eyes.


How to deal with dry eye syndrome?

In summer, people stay in an air-conditioned environment for a long time, and facing computers leads to a high incidence of dry eye syndrome. The air conditioner makes the indoor air dry at the same time. If you face the computer for a long time, it is easy to cause hypoxia in the eyes, the secretion of lacrimal glands decreases, and the ability to wash the eyeballs is weakened, which easily leads to dry eye syndrome. Dry eye syndrome is not only dry eyes, but also burning sensation, foreign body sensation and eye fatigue, and even symptoms similar to chronic conjunctivitis, such as itchy eyes, sore eyes, sticky secretions, etc., so it is easy to be mistaken for conjunctivitis in the early stage inflammation.

When the symptoms of dry eye appear, patients should first go to the hospital for on-site examination, and then choose different treatment options according to the condition. In an air-conditioned room facing the computer, you have to take a break for 5-10 minutes every hour you work, and you have to blink frequently. When resting, exercise the neck and shoulder muscles, ensure adequate sleep, stay up late less, and drink plenty of water.

Sunglasses with UV protection are recommended for outdoor activities
When driving or doing outdoor sports, be careful that your eyes will be sunburned. Protective measures: Strong ultraviolet rays can not only sunburn the skin, but also sunburn the eyes. If the strong sunlight continuously irradiates the eyes for 1-2 hours, the eyes may be sunburned. The accumulation of ultraviolet rays will cause eye diseases such as photodamage keratitis and cataracts, and symptoms such as redness, heat, pain, tearing, and photophobia will appear. It can also cause corneal epithelial peeling, edema, and blurred vision.

It is recommended that you must wear sunglasses with UV protection in summer. It is best to have a larger frame, and there should be instructions that the lenses block UV rays. If you buy sunglasses that cannot protect against UV rays, your eyes will absorb more UV rays. Outdoor workers, in particular, must actively protect themselves.

Improper makeup can easily lead to bacterial infection. Protective measures: In summer, many women are accustomed to using eye sunscreens and cosmetics to avoid sun damage around the eyes. In fact, improper makeup is more harmful to the eyes. For people with oily skin and frequent makeup, especially those with a lot of eye makeup, the eye shadow on the eyelids, the mascara on the eyelashes, and the false eyelashes stuck to the root of the eyelids will all irritate the eyes.

Hair bangs that are too straight and too long may allow hair dye, dust, and clothing fibers stuck to the hair to enter the eyes and cause irritation. In summer, eye makeup should be simple. When applying eye makeup, it is best to choose products with neutral lipids, non-toxic, and harmless to the eyes, and not too close to the eyeballs. Do not rub your eyes when your eyes are itchy or have a foreign body sensation to prevent bacterial infection.