Light Sensitivity — Its Cause and effect. How to protect your eyes
Do you shy away when you come out in the sun? Or have you full-on adapted to vampire life?
You are only sensitive to sunlight, not some modern-day vampire.
When you are sensitive to light, your eyes hurt, turn red and tear up whenever you try to see the light. This issue is very bothersome as you cannot turn your life upside down and leave almost everything because of these issues.
This can cause issues for your working life, even your social life is hampered. Find out the five common health issues that can result in sensitive eyes.
Dry Eyes
This is the most common health issue. You can have dry eyes due to a number of reasons. Dry eyes are symptoms of other diseases. Along with dryness, you can feel stinging, burning, redness or scratchiness. You can also feel pain in your eyes.
How to cure?
Dry eyes are only a symptom of many other diseases. If you are experiencing dry eyes, consult your doctor. If you require an eye test, get an eye test.
The solution for dry eyes is an artificial tear solution. Tears are essential for your eyes. It moist your eyes and lubricate your eyes. Tears can relieve your eyes from pain, redness, scratchiness and other issues. It’s not easy for everyone to turn into a soap opera actress and shed tears on demand. You can try an artificial tear solution that lubricates your eyes. Your eyes will feel relieved.
Migraines
Do you suffer from migraines? I can understand your pain. My sister too suffers from migraines. It’s too painful to watch. The migraine comes for no rhyme and reason and hardly subsides. Migraine can also result in you getting sensitive to light.
Adding migraine and light sensitivity will make you cranky. You are irritable because of your headaches and your eyes that you can hardly open.
How to cure?
Migraines can subside from eating pain killers. If you suffer from migraines, you should visit your doctor. The real cause of migraine is still unknown. However, a prescription from doctors sometimes works (You know the placebo effect).
If you are a glasses wearer, wear your prescription glasses all the time, unless they are reading glasses. Wearing glasses all the time will reduce the need of straining your eyes to see clearly. You don’t put pressure on your eyes and your eyes get to relax a bit.
While reading, you should wear your reading glasses or your prescription glasses. Reading requires you to focus, putting a lot of strain on your eyes.
Similarly for working on computers, wearing digital strain glasses could be useful. Even if you have perfect vision, wearing these glasses can reduce your sensitivity to light.
Allergies
Dust and dirt allergies can cause you to have sensitive eyes. You might develop pink eyes because of a bacterial infection. This will cause you to get sensitive to light.
How to cure?
Antibiotics or anti-allergen can help you with your allergies. It is better to avoid getting allergies than to find a solution after affecting your eyes. You should shield your eyes when you get outside your home. Wear sunglasses in the sun, or where there is a lot of dust. The dust getting into your eyes can give you red eyes.
Even wearing normal cheap glasses will aid in preventing dust from getting into your eyes. For your light sensitivity wear tinted glasses. For outside sunglasses will work. For indoors, you can wear amber-tinted eyeglasses. Or you can try out transition glasses, the ones that turn a dark shade when exposed to sunlight and turn normal when exposed to normal light. These will help you in a good way.
You can also try out anti-glare glasses to block the sun glares and flashes that stings your eyes.
Concussion
After suffering from a traumatic injury can cause you to have light sensitivity. A concussion can lead to loss of consciousness, confusion, slurred speech and even amnesia.
How to cure?
You should be alert to avoid suffering a concussion. Take appropriate safety measures while driving. If you have vision defects, then wear your glasses while driving. You require both your near and far vision to work while driving. Compromising on and can lead to fatal results. Wear your sunglasses to block bright light that can distract your eyes while driving.
For daytime driving, if you have a prescription, then get a layer of anti-glare on your glasses. You will avoid a great deal of pain and distraction caused by the sun glares and flashing neon lights in the signs and boards.
For nighttime driving, if you drive a lot during the night, you can get yourself night vision glasses to improve your vision.
If you are unsure about your vision is perfect, get an eye test. If you live in the UK. You can visit our physical store in Bury. The opticians in Bury have 20+ years of experience and they are very friendly. I got my blue light glasses from Bury and they are absolutely worth it.
If you reside anywhere near Walkden, you can visit our store in Walkden. You can get a free eye test in any of our stores. Opticians in Walden are also very amazing people with a lot of experience.
Corneal Abrasion
Wear, tear or scratches on your eyes are a big deal. It is excruciatingly painful and disastrous since you might suffer permanent damage to your eyesight. Getting corneal abrasion can be because of many reasons. It can be from accidental injury or dust or dirt getting into your eyes. This can also turn your eyes to get sensitive.
How to cure?
More correctly, how to prevent. Wear your glasses when you go outside. Getting dust and dirt into your eyes is unpleasant. If you get dirt into your eyes, don’t start rubbing your eyes. Your eyes are very delicate and it can get an abrasion from your rough treatment. The best solution is to wash your eyes immediately or try to get the dirt out through your tears (if for some reasons, you cannot access water).
Another solution is artificial tear solutions. You can use a tear solution regularly after coming back from work. This will get rid of any minute particles that have gotten into your eyes and also relieve your eyes from tiredness.
Solutions in a nutshell -
- Wear your glasses all the time
- Wear your sunglasses when going outside
- Use artificial tear solution daily after coming back from work
- Get anti-glare coating in your glasses
- Get blue light glasses to work in front of a computer, even if you have perfect vision
- Wear your prescription glasses while driving (except for reading glasses)
- Take the advice seriously
