Why Do Our Eyes Deteriorate? What are Eye Diseases? What should we do to prevent our eye health from deteriorating? Common Misconceptions About the Eye

Despite the developing medicine and technology, eye diseases are one of the biggest problems of our age. So, "Why do our eyes deteriorate?" If we ask; There can be many causes of eye deterioration. These reasons can be listed as follows:

• - Factors such as insomnia, a major blow to the eye, hereditary diseases due to genetic reasons, light imbalances after we get older, and tiring our eyes too much can cause it. In fact, the eye disorder is the inability to perform its normal functions. In other words, we can say that it is the loss of normal visual behavior. Or an illness we have had can affect our eye health later on. Negative conditions such as stress, excessive pressure, and depression can also cause our eyes to experience temporary blindness. For our eye health, we must take care of our psychological and physical health together. We can list a few misconceptions about eye health:
• - Consuming too much salt adversely affects eye health.
• + Salt triggers diseases such as hypertension and does not adversely affect eye health.
• - Reading a book or watching television too closely affects our eyes negatively.
• + Has no negative effect on the eye health.
• - To prevent eye strain, resting glasses should be used.
• + Relaxing glasses do not benefit the eyes.
• - Eating carrots relieves eye disorders.
• + There is no extra benefit to eating carrots. But for eye health, a balanced diet has positive effects.
• - When we wear glasses, our eye numbers are corrected.
• + Glasses allow us to see more clearly. It has no progressive or regressive properties.
• - Cataracts occur only in the elderly.
• + Cataracts can be seen in everyone from babies to the elderly.
• - It is normal to see flashes or flashes of light at some moments in advanced ages, it will get better when you wait.
• + This may be a clue to a retinal tear.
• - Strabismus in babies goes away as they get older.
• + Strabismus in some babies can be very serious. It must be treated.
• - My eye doesn't hurt, it means I don't have eye pressure.
• + The majority of eye pressure symptoms are not pain. There is usually insidious vision loss.

We examined common and well-known misconceptions about eye diseases and eye health. Let's not forget to have our sunglasses with us all seasons, not to smoke, to go to regular eye examinations if you have diabetes, to wash our hands frequently, to pay attention to the cleanliness of contact lenses, to keep the distance between us and technological devices, and to adjust the light in our constant or working environment. These will help us in maintaining our eye health. In short, we propose to take care of our eyes in order not to get eye diseases. Let's talk about the negative situations that may occur in our eye health if we do not take care, and let's be conscious about it:

Strabismus: We have eye muscles that allow our eyes to look around and move. If one or more of these eye muscles are damaged, our eyes may shift. This can cause strabismus. It is the deterioration of the parallelism of synchronic eye movements.

Color Blindness: It is the inability of the eye to distinguish between colors. More colors such as red-green can be mixed.

Myopia: It is a disease of not being able to see distant objects clearly due to the structure of the eye being longer than normal.

Hypermetropia: It is the inability to see nearby objects clearly as a result of the eye being shorter than normal.