Friday, December 25, 2009

Eye , It’s small but it’s an engineering marvel and it handles about one and half million of simultaneous messages through millions of electro chemical circuits.

Eye Care


Some specialists Joke at an Eye surgeon, Hello Doctor “Why do you make a fuss, dealing with such a tinny organ as eye”

The Eye Surgeon just smiled and replied, “Please close your eyes and repeat your statement”

There was no reply. That says enough about the eye. As an excellent gift of God, small but superb one out of five senses with our body, such as Touch, Smell, Sight, Hear and Taste. Here you cam imagine that all other senses seem to have sacrificed lot of their acuity in favour of the Eyes. As it is natural one, therefore that humans are highly handicapped when the vision is impaired or lost. And it is also know that the sharpness of touch and hearing sense increases after one becomes blind.

It’s small but it’s an engineering marvel and it handles about one and half million of simultaneous messages through millions of electro chemical circuits.

You will be surprised this small organ is building 80 % of our knowledge in average. But now a day we are pressing hard upon that resulting stress due to the demand of the present day life. Many eyes are not able to cope with them and reflecting with symptoms with headache, red eyes and defective vision.

The definition of normal visual acuity of human is structured in such way that a definite shape of object can be seen from a definite distance, such as you may came across the Top letter of Vision Testing Chart or Drum can be seen from a distance of 60 meters. And During our vision testing if we are reading it from the distance of 6 meters only and the Ophthalmologist is giving remark for that vision is VA-6/60. Means Visual Acuity is that one is able to see / read the object from a distance of a 6 meter only which could be seen / read from 60 meters.

In Early years of Human Life the cilliary muscles of the eyes were more relaxed for much of the time, which are being used for make convex shape of the organic lens of the eye for a making a focus at near. But now a day, the desk work culture or you may say the near vision works such as reading, writing knitting, working in minute element as gold smith, scientific works and especially working in the computer for long time is not leaving the lens or muscles in rest in eyes. Hence the Eye Strains are the early protest against the hard work.

Keeping in aim of the intensity of illumination is another matter of concern regarding the strain or stress of the eye. Now our surroundings are full of colour and high intensity lights. The muscles controlling the accommodation and adaptation to control the intensity of the light faces a lot of stress and strain especially in driving during the night, working in the computer, watching TV in low intensity of light or in dark in the room.

Here you may follow that if the surrounding of the object became more illuminated than the object the stress happened, so the surroundings should be same or low illuminated than illumination of the object.

Due to various reasons the lens can not focus the image of the object sharply at the innermost part of the eye, the Retina, a photosensitive layer of the eye and we got the defective vision or blurred vision and in case it focuses in front of retina it is called myopia or short sightedness and if in behind it is called hypermetropia or long sightedness.

And a natural phenomenon occurs during the age of forty, and the states of the cilliary muscles became more relaxant and show their weakness to make convex as required for focusing to see a near object and this state is called presbiopia.

The common symptoms of stressed or strained eyes are watering, headache, redness of the eye, eye strain, blurring of vision. The Prescription and use of proper and accurate powered glasses will perfect aid to stay you cool and effective to exercise your efficacy in many ways.

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