Natural Ways to Reduce Eye Minus

Natural Ways to Reduce Eye Minus

Tips and Tricks   April 19, 2013

Minus the eye is a disorder of the eye that can not see objects at a distance too far. Eye problems can be experienced by anyone, both women, men, children, and adults. The cause is often read in the dark, reading while lying down, exposed to radiation monitor, TV, or cell phones, and so forth. Someone whose eyes minus, would normally use glasses or contact lenses to aid vision. However, both methods can not reduce eye minus. Minus the eye can actually increase if you do not often use glasses or contact lenses.


Cause Eye Minus

• Read while sleeping
• Read in places with less lighting
• Reading too long
• Less foods high in vitamin A
• Too old to work on the computer.
• Watching tv too close
• Play the game with a big TV and melee
• Too much watching widescreen movies, etc..

Eye symptoms Minus

At nearsightedness (myopia, eye minus), the axis of the eye is too convex, so the shadow of the object falls on the retina. As a result, distant objects are not seen clearly. Without glasses, nearsighted patients will experience headaches and pain in the eyes.

The symptoms are throbbing head pain, especially the front, eyes sore and heavy, feels like going out and excessive tears melted. This situation usually improves when eye rested or with anti-pain medication. But often relapse some time later.

Then, how to reduce or treat eye minus?

 Here's how to naturally reduce eye minus:
 1. Doing eye exercises eye exercises you can do this every day. Eye exercises useful for retraining kefokusan your eyes. Eye exercises you can do, such as looking at various objects at different distances, wink normally (not too fast and slow), closed eyes with the palm of the hand, and seeing moving objects.
2. Mengonsusmi vegetables and fruits If you want minus the eye naturally decreases, then you are also advised to eat foods that are good for the eyes. Foods that include, salmon, avocado, garlic and red, egg, spinach, carrots, orange juice, and green leafy vegetables and other fruits are good for eye health.
3. To enjoy the natural scenery to soothe the eyes, you can see the natural scenery. Frequently go to the mountains to see the green trees or go to their hometown to see the rice fields. In addition, a wide sea view can also reduce minus the eye.
4. Using goggles with polarized lens glasses therapy is great for reducing glare. However, the lens can make you so much more difficult to see the LCD screen or mobile phone.

That's the natural way to reduce eye minus. The way is certainly easier to do than you have to perform eye surgery which would be a lot of money. If you want to do the above, then it should be done continuously. That way, you will feel the change.

Maintain Eye Health Tips

Maintain Eye Health Tips

Tips and Tricks   February 21, 2013

Did you know that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are approximately 180 million people in the world who has a visual impairment, and about 40-45 million of them blind? At least 7 million people worldwide become blind every year. Tragically, as many as 80% of cases of blindness and serious vision loss could have been avoided.

Therefore, do not regard lightly the health of your eyes. Protect your eyes and your vision with the following seven tips:

1. Stop smoking
You already know that smoking is injurious to health. However, you may not know that there is a direct link between smoking and eye problems. If you are a smoker, you are likely to develop a number of eye diseases such as cataracts, macular degeneration, dry eye syndrome and optic nerve damage. If you've tried to quit before and failed, try again. Studies show that the more you try to quit smoking, the greater your chances of success.

2. Control your blood pressure and blood sugar
High blood pressure (hypertension) are not treated can affect vision and even lead to hypertensive retinopathy, which is damage to the retina due to blood pressure is too strong. The retina is the layer of tissue at the back of the eye. Damage to the retina causes vision impaired.

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of blindness in adults. Prolonged high blood glucose can lead to diabetic retinopathy and other eye complications such as glaucoma and cataracts. When you have diabetes, it is advisable for you to eat healthy foods, check blood sugar regularly and taking medicine or taking insulin injections as instructed doctors.

3. Get the best nutrition for eyes
Protect your eyes with the food on your plate. Eat foods rich in antioxidants. Antioxidants can protect and improve eye cells and cells of the entire body from damage by free radicals. Fruits and vegetables tend to be colorful rich in antioxidants.


In addition to antioxidants, particularly vitamin A is necessary for eye health maintenance. Vitamin A supports the production of eye pigment rhodopsin, which is highly sensitive to light and are used to seeing in poor lighting conditions. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness disease called (java: kotok chicken) where one can not see in the dim light. Carrots are a major source of pro-vitamin A.

4. Protect your eyes from the sun
Exposure to sunlight can continually cause cataracts and macular degeneration. This is due to the ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun penetrate the retina, causing eye damage. To prevent harmful UV rays, wear sunglasses designed specifically to protect the eyes when you're out in the sun for a long time. Glasses are generally provide UV protection up to 99% or 100%.

5. Use eye protection
If you work with hazardous materials, wear safety glasses to protect your eyes from injury, damage, and blindness. Wear goggles or helmet mirror when you are riding a motorcycle. Certain sports such as tennis, hockey and swimming can also harm or risk of eye damage. Wear eye protection such as helmets and goggles to protect your sport.

6. Make a good habit for the eyes
Although eye problems are generally associated with damage or aging, eye problems can also be caused by bad habits. Focusing on a fixed distance in a long time, like staring at a computer screen or reading for hours, is one of them. The muscles of your eyes will be locked in a fixed position so that the loss of flexibility, the objects are very close or very far to look blurry. Take rest breaks and shift your gaze on distant objects to help prevent this problem. Regular eye exercises can also help restore vision and prevent problems in the future. Examples of eye exercises are alternately focus on objects near and far, as well as focusing on the same object with different angles.

7. Visit your eye doctor.
Visit your eye doctor to monitor your eye health before problems arise. A visit to the eye doctor for regular checkups can be done every one or two years, more often if you wear glasses or contact lenses. Immediately visit the eye doctor if you experience eye infections or symptoms such as reduced vision, blurred vision, eye pain / redness and itching around the eyes or eyelids due to infection or chronic eye disease that can lead to permanent damage or blindness.

Too long stare electronic devices in the work, whether PC, laptop, tablet, or smartphone can reduce eye health. This work may be common to guard the cafe, bank officer or other administrative entry that is directly related to the computer. For a few tips to keep your eyes healthy in front of the monitor following should be done:

- Adjust screen lighting gadget with appropriate levels, avoid too dazzling lighting and too dark.
- Strive 20/20/20 running system, which is every 20 minutes or so turn your eyes for 20 seconds out of the screen as far as 20 feet (six meters) or in the direction of green plants.
- Closing the eyes for a moment and deliver water to moisten the eye to the entire surface of the cornea.
- Using a computer screen filter to reduce the radiation or the use of glasses with lenses antiradiasi.
- Get used to not be in front of the screen for more than eight hours a day.
- Taking vitamin A and omega-3 fatty acids as nutrients for the eye.

Hopefully useful,

Sources of Vitamin A, and Vitamin A deficiency Functions You Need to Know

Sources of Vitamin A, and Vitamin A deficiency Functions You Need to Know

Vitamin   February 04, 2013

Vitamin A is always associated with eye health and carrots. This statement is not wrong, because it's one of the benefits of vitamin A to maintain eye health is by improving the integrity of the retina and the vegetables were carrots also contain pro-vitamin A or beta-carotene in the body which in turn is converted into vitamin A. However, you should know that vitamin A has another function to your body's health.

Lack of vitamin A can cause eyes can not adjust to changes in light from outside. Early symptoms of vitamin deficiency in will cause you to hit the state in which night blindness is caused less clear vision at twilight. Given the function of vitamin A for eye health is so important that meet the needs of this vitamin in your body. Vitamin A is not only found in vegetable carrot, but also found in dark green vegetables such as spinach and orange fruits. In addition, vitamin A can also be derived from animals such as milk, liver, cheese, egg yolks and butter.

In addition to eye health, here are some of the functions of vitamin A is beneficial for your health:

1. Vitamin A helps cells reproduce normally commonly called differentiation. If the body does not do will affect the differentiation of pre-cancerous conditions.
2. The second function of vitamin A that can help maintain healthy tissues. Therefore, this vitamin can help the wound heal.
3. Vitamin A is necessary for growth and development of the embryo and fetus, determine which genes in the formation of organs in embryonic development.
4. Vitamin A can help maintain the health and structure of the skin, hair and teeth.
5. Vitamin A can also help overcome skin diseases such as acne.
6. The last function of vitamin A is vitamin A needed in normal reproduction by affecting the function and the formation of sperm, ovaries and placenta.
7. Maintain eye health.
Vitamin A plays an important role in the formation of the sense of sight. This vitamin will help change the molecular signals from the received light beam or retina to be a projection of the image in our brains.

Various Sources of Vitamin A


1. Cereals
Comes from yellow corn and wheat

2. Tubers
Tubers contain a lot of vitamin A is the sweet yellow, sweet steamed yellow, red sweet potatoes, yams red,

3. Cereals
From seeds or beans are peas and beans

4.Sayuran
Vegetables that contain a lot of vitamin A such as daffodils, spinach, spinach fried chips, bunkil taro leaves, red amaranth, velvetleaf leaf, guava leaf, leaves cashew nuts panjangl leaves and other green leaves, Gandaria, beans, kankung, chinese cabbage , pumpkin, soy pack, princess shy, young ranti, seaweed, mustard, clover, Hintalo eggplant and carrots.

5. Fruits
Examples are apples, country, persimmon, mango, papaya, banana, and breadfruit Sowa.

6. Animal
Animal sources of vitamin A derived from chicken, duck, lamb kidney, beef liver, chicken liver, liver sausage, different types of fish (rabbitfish, skipjack, cork, kawalinya, clams, lehoma, malugis, crab, sardines, coral trout, and tuna Titang ), fish eggs and salted eggs.

7. Processed
In addition there are also vitamin A naturally derived dri processed as head of milk, butter, fish oil, palm oil, fish flour and milk powder.

Foods that contain vitamin A High

liver (beef, pork, chicken, turkey, fish) (6500 mg 722%)
carrots (835 mcg 93%)
broccoli leaf (800 mg 89%)
sweet potatoes (709 mg 79%)
butter (684 mg 76%)
spinach (681 mcg 76%)
spinach (469 mcg 52%)
flask (400 mg 41%)
collard greens (333 mg 37%)
Cheddar cheese (265 mg 29%)
honeydew melon (169 mg 19%)
eggs (140 mg 16%)
apricot (96 mg 11%)
papaya (55 mg 6%)
mango (38 mg 4%)
beans (38 mg 4%)
broccoli (31 mg 3%)
milk (28 mg 3%)

Signs of Vitamin A Deficiency

Ever heard of low birth weight? Must have it. Well, low birth weight babies are going to bring a deficiency of vitamin A. Because infants with low weight, which weight less than 2.5 Kg baby more easily threatened by lack of vitamin A. In the development of the baby's age if not treated immediately get the intake of vitamin A, diseases such as night blindness, corneal xerosis be suffered.

Other diseases such as autoimmune lung disease and ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection). Lung disease is caused by a lack of various vitamins, including vitamin A. Usually autonium disease of the lungs attacks the adults who have the habit of smoking. But it can affect the baby if the lack of intake of vitamin A. Because according to the table of vitamin deficiency, the vitamin A that gives a bigger impact on the body's T cells. T cell immunity is the effect on the body.

Diseases caused by deficiency of Vitamin A

- Hemeralopia that arise due to the decreasing ability of Bacillus cells at twilight
- Bitot spots (damage to the retina)
- Seroftalmia (cornea dries due to disruption of the tear glands)
- Keratomalasi (completely damaged corneas due to reduced oil production meibom)
- Frinoderma (scaly skin of hands and feet due to impaired formation of the skin epithelium)
- Bleeding in the lining of the intestines, kidneys, and lungs because of damage to epithelial organs
- The process stalled growth

Well, it turns out the benefits of vitamin A not only for the eyes just right? Hopefully some of the above it can be helpful to you.

Caring for Eye Health

Caring for Eye Health

Tips and Tricks   February 03, 2013

Healthy body and organs inside the body so needs to be maintained. From start to maintain eye health, skin health, hair health, dental care, nail care, and health in other parts of the entire body, both from within and from outside. Maintaining eye health is an important thing to be aware of. You should be able to take care of your eyes with good health. These will infodari eye health tips to be discussing about how to care for eye health and eye health to avoid all diseases and other eye disorders.

For those of you who use contact lens or contact lens, also needed extra care, so that your eyes remain healthy.

Actually there are 7 easy ways to keep your eyes healthy, in this article we provide a variety of tips to our visual senses both children and adults are not exposed to diseases such as minus, plus or cataracts. Why should we keep? Did you know according to the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there are 45 million people with blindness on the planet and it wiliayah third in Southeast Asia, where we live. In Indonesia there are an estimated one person become blind every minute in the world and estimated 12 people become blind every minute.
There are 7 easy tips Eye Health Care can be done every person in maintaining eye health:

1. A Balanced Diet
Apparently the diet has something to do with eye health, so while doing the diet by eating nutritious foods with vegetables and fruits. Always choose foods that contain vitamin A, C, and E because it can improve the health of the human eye. Furthermore, eating salmon can also provide a very good effect.

2. Avoid Living Habits Poor
This method actually applies to maintaining the health of the entire body to avoid minumanng yes alcoholic and eliminate the habit of smoking. Scientists say, smoking can make eye cataracts, macular degeneration (loss of sharpness of vision), and nerve damage in the eye. And drinking too much alcohol can make pupillary reaction so unstable, blurred vision until the myopic eye.

3. Perform routine checks Eyes
Often modern humans do not realize that stress can impact due to a job that does not fit into the eye. Therefore, perisakanlah your eyes regularly to avoid the disease that may strike the eye.

4. Gymnastics Eyes
How do senamnya? easy really. Open wide your eyes. Then, rotate the eyeball up, down, left and right for two seconds and close your eyes slowly. Repeat a few times when you're relaxed. This can reduce the impact of stress eye because solar radiation or computer.

5. Knowing Eyes in the Family History
The possibility of eye diseases can arise due to hereditary factors. So instead of that, knowing the history of your own eyes in the family is very important. By knowing, as a child we can prevent eye diseases derived by consulting the doctor.

6. Protective Eye Wear
Glasses can be worn to protect the eyes from sunlight or dust during exercise or other activity. Many glasses are specially designed for specific sports to avoid eye injury. So, avoid the use of sunglasses just because you want to style.

7. Enough Rest
Just like the body, the eyes also need adequate rest. Refrain from watching TV too long, or long hours at the computer when not at work. That way, your eyes do not fatigue and get adequate rest. (Read Causes and How to Overcome Difficult Sleep Tonight)

8. Do not rub or rubbed his eyes are too strong, especially when there is a foreign object into the eye.

9. Do not touch eyes with dirty hands or not washed with soap.

10. Apply the habit of watching TV and reading the right, such as the ideal distance of 2.5 - 3 meters in front of the TV, watching the dark space When the lights turned on, try living in a state of light, after watching TV for 30 - 60 minutes, rest for a moment close your eyes or look away. Also apply the correct reading habits, such as: Reading should be sitting in a relaxed position, the light source should be from the back or side, not from the front, the eye spacing Set approximately 30-40 cm reading, do not read continuously, occasionally rest eyes with close them or look away for a moment.
That's a variety of tips that we can use in maintaining eye health so we are not exposed to diseases such as minus, plus or cataracts.

For women, if you have eyes minus will berpengaruhpada pregnant. Therefore, do your best to take care of your eye health, so that your eyes can still function properly and as it should be