Before we start to learn Top tips about your eye's care, we should understand the eye's importance. We hardly think that how valuable are they? Without eyes all word is like dark. There is no difference between day and night or light and darkness. Have you ever imagine that how visually impaired person face difficulty into their day to day life? If we understand the importance of our eyes, then definitely we will be more focused about its care. Because of our eyes we are viewing colour full things and enjoying lovely life without anybody’s help.Now you may think why I am giving you a big lecture about importance of our eyes? You may be right and if I am in your place then I could think same way, which you are thing at the moment. But according to RNIB, only in united Kingdome about 100 people are losing their eye sight every single day. According WHO there is About 314 million people are visually impaired across the globe and 45 millions of them are blind. There is 53% of sight loss can be avoidable in UK with the great care and treatment. If you look worldwide figure then about 85% of all visual impairment people can save their sight by its proper care.
How is entitle for free eye test in the UK?
According to above scary figure, we may think we should check our eyes regular basis. But you may rise a question that how we can afford an expensive treatment? Good question, well some of you can get free checkups in UK such as:
1. People under 16 or up to 18 in full time education.
2. People over 60s.
3. People registered blind or partially sighted.
4. People diagnosed with diabetes or glaucoma.
5. People on income related benefits.
6. If you use a VDU screen at work (a computer, laptop or monitor for instance) you can get free regular tests through your employer.
When we should go for eye test?
Everyone should go for the eye test atlist once in every two years. If you have got chronic diesis diabetes or family history of glaucoma then you have to examine your eye once in every year.
Who come under high risk of sight loss?
There are few groups who come under high risk of sight loss such as older people, females, and people from minority and ethnic groups. But the detection these conditions at the earlier stage and the proper treatment can help save their sight. About 87% of the world’s visually impaired live in developing countries. About 82 percent of all people who are visually impaired are age 50 and older (while they stand for only 19% of the world's inhabitants).
How many levels are of visual function?
Good query, there are actually four levels of visual function, which are mansion below.
1. Normal vision
2. Moderate visual impairment
3. Severe visual impairment Blindness
4. Blindness
What are main causes of blindness?
Worldwide, the foremost causes of loss of sight, in order of incidence, are:
1. Cataract (a clouding of the lens of the eye that impedes the passage of light).
2. Uncorrected refractive errors (short-sightedness, far-sightedness or astigmatism).
3. Glaucoma (a cluster of illnesses that effect in damage of the optic nerve).
4. Age related macular degeneration (which occupies the defeat of a person's middle field of vision).
5. Vitamin (A) deficiency.
