Do It Yourself

for your eyes. Eye exercises hace equal significance like other exercises of your body. Especially if you are normally subjected to screens during most of the time of at work, you should close them for ten to fifteen minutes and shift your eyeballs while you keep them shut.

• People who use contact lenses should not use them more than twelve hours a day. Even though a lot of companies may claim that wearing them all day long may not cause any harm, you should know that it is after all a foreign object in your eye and something that is not part of your body. Wearing contact lenses for long, you may develop allergies and uneasiness that will carry on longer than you can expect.

• Researches have also shown that smoking can be gravely harmful to eye muscles. Smoking causes cataracts and macular degeneration i.e. death of retina cells. This can adversely affect your sight and may cause partial blindness in severe cases too. Passive smoking is also harmful for the eyes, so it is advisable to avoid it too.

• You should wash your eyes often. If you reside in an environment that is usually dusty, you should keep up a routine of rinsing you eyes regularly. You may not know but your hands come in contact with quite harmful chemicals domestically, and you may rub your eyes using those hands such as chemicals like nail polish remover.

• Lastly, a good sleep is necessary for healthy eyes. For healthy looking eyes, you definitely do not want dark circles, and to avoid those, you should take proper sleep of at least eight to ten hours a day.