đ¨ââď¸ Local anesthesia numbs a specific area, blocking pain signals to the brain. In eye care, it’s used for procedures like cataract surgery, corneal scraping, or injections.
Common agents:
Lidocaine: Fast-acting, short duration
Bupivacaine: Longer-lasting
Proparacaine: Topical anesthetic for surface procedures
The horizontal coincidence test, also known as the cover-uncover test or Hirschberg’s test, assesses binocular alignment and detects strabismus (misaligned eyes).
How it’s done:
Patient fixates: The patient looks at a target, usually a light or object.
Covering one eye: One eye is covered, and the movement of the uncovered eye is observed.
Uncovering the eye: The covered eye is uncovered, and the movement of both eyes is observed.
Purpose:
The test helps detect:
Strabismus: Misalignment of the eyes (esotropia, exotropia, hypertropia, etc.).
Binocular vision problems: Issues with how the eyes work together.
The test provides valuable information about binocular alignment and helps diagnose and manage strabismus and other binocular vision problems.
Dieting is the practice of regulating food intake with the goal of weight loss, improving physical condition or managing specific health conditions.
What you eat, how you eat? And when you eat have a major role in your eye health and your health in general.
There are specific vitamins and minerals our eyes require for optimum function, and there are regular food that contains such healthy nutrients.
Today we will be talking extensively on some common food sources and how they impact our eyes. We will place less emphasis on the specific vitamins and minerals inorder for this topic to sink in easily.
What are the common food sources that are required for healthy visual function?
1. EGGS: eggs are very rich in lots of minerals and vitamins. Consistent intake of eggs helps prevent conditions like age related macular degeneration, choroidal degeneration
2. ORANGES AND GRAPES: These sources of food are highly rich in antioxidants. Consuming these regularly helps in preventing cell death and reducing Glaucoma.
3. BEANS AND GBEGIRI: These food sources have high zinc content, hence they help in mental alertness, brain function and they also boost cornea health.
4. CARROT: carrots are very rich in vitamin A which is good for night vision, and also help reducing damages from the condition called retinitis pigmentosa.
5. FISH AND SEAFOOD: fishes and seafood are very rich in zinc and for this they help in brain function and ensuring a healthy cornea for the consumer. Fishes and seafood are also rich in vitamin A, leutin and zeanthin, so consuming fishes and seafood will go a long way for your visual health.
Other food sources that are necessary for healthy eyes are vegetables, palm oil, broccoli, kale, et.c
Lifestyle practices are daily life actions that we engage in daily.
Some lifestyle practices are good and are beneficial to the eyes and the reverse of these good practices poses serious threat to the eyes.
The following are some lifestyle practices and how they affect the eyes:
1. WEARING PROTECTIVE GOGGLES WHILE AT WORK: If you work in a production factory or a chemical laboratory/factory, wearing protective goggles will help protect your eyes from workspace accidents like flying objects getting into the eyes, chemicals and fumes entering the eyes and causing issues for your eyes.
If you are an outdoor worker, that spends Time outside under the sun, a pair of photo AR will go a long way in preventing issues like cataract, pterygium and Age related macular degeneration
If you spend time working on your computer, getting a pair of bluecut glasses will go a long way in protecting your eyes from blue light from your devices.
2. EXERCISING: By Exercising regularly, your body will be able to fight against diseases like diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
Once you are able to fight against these conditions your chances of coming down diseases like diabetic retinopathy and hypertensive retinopathy.
These conditions have been known to cause blindness.
3. SMOKING: smoking regularly can actually put you at a risk of cataracts and macula degeneration. Instead of smoking yourself to blindness and then start looking for help all around, why don’t you just avoid smoking altogether? Think about it.
4. SELF – MEDICATION: By using medications (eyedrops and tablets) without doctor’s recommendation, you will actually be putting your eyes and life at risk. The damages self – medication can cause are enormous and most times irreversible.
5. NOT CHECKING YOUR EYES REGULARLY: Not checking your eyes regularly or avoiding visiting the hospital altogether when you are have eye issues is a lifestyle practice that have caused so many their eyes eventually.
By not checking your eyes regularly, you tend to Miss certain conditions that could have been treated in their early stage until it’s impossible to treat.
Back in the days, our forefathers lived a more healthier life, They were stronger, had very good body built, and very healthy organs.
Our forefathers rarely fell sick. Conditions like cancer, Glaucoma, hepatitis, kidney problems, liver problems were strangers to them. But today conditions like the aforementioned are now next door neighbors to our generation. These days we have kids who are 10 years looking like they are 30 years already. The reason is not far fetched. Our diets are killing us.
Our fore fathers fed on natural food. their meals were very rich in fibres, protein and necessary vitamins and minerals. They ate their meal fresh and healthy. But today we consume meals that are processed and heavily ladened with chemical preservatives, even our cook wares are made with materials that are carcinogenic. Do you still Wonder why we are not healthy?.
Let us go back to the old ways, let’s eat healthy meals, let’s shun processed and genetically modified food. If we can, let’s grow most of our food in our homes.
Palm oil other wise known as red oil is gotten from processing palm fronds. It one of the major condiments for cooking most Nigerian dishes.
Palm oil is highly rich in healthy vitamins and minerals that benefits humans in more ways than one.
Some of the health benefits of Palm oil includes
It improves eye sight by virtue of it’s high beta carotene content.
It very rich in vitamin E, which aids in anti- aging.
It is rich in vitamin K which aids blood coagulation.
It prevents the hair from greying fast while maintaining it’s strength.
It boosts skin health.
By reducing bad cholesterol ( Low density lipoprotein) while increasing good cholesterol High density lipoprotein, it aids improved cardiovascular function.
How could my eyes be dried when itâs not my skin?
Dry eye occurs when the eye doesnât produce enough tears to keep the outer surface eyes moisturized.
When the eye doesnât release much tears to retain the moisture of the eye, it causes irritation and discomforts in the eye.
Just like the skin looks whitish ,dry and cracked when itâs not moisturized, the eyes as well gets dry when it doesnât release enough tears to wet the eye.
Causes of dry eye are , age , hormonal changes, insufficient tears, exposure to windy environment, staring at a screen for extended period.
Signs and symptoms of dry eyes are : ⢠dry feeling in the eye ⢠â burning sensation ⢠â Teary eye ⢠â redness
You are experiencing amy of the symptoms of dry eye listed above ? Then you need to visit an eye clinic to get proper treatment for your eyes.
