Staying up late to play with your mobile phone, turning off the lights and playing with your mobile phone is not a routine operation for friends who surf 5G.
But recently, a woman, on annual leave, stayed up until the early hours of the morning for several days, and went to the hospital for an examination only to find out that she had acute glaucoma.
Ms. Zhang stayed up until the early hours of the morning for several days, and at 10 o'clock in the evening, she suddenly felt a severe headache, as well as symptoms of nausea and vomiting, and was diagnosed with acute angle-closure glaucoma after examination in the hospital, and needed surgery**, the doctor called glaucoma the world's first irreversible blinding eye disease, and unhealthy eye behaviors such as staying up late and playing with mobile phones are not advisable.
In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of such glaucoma patients, "who do not have typical glaucoma symptoms, but have symptoms such as vision loss, eye swelling, visual fatigue, rainbow-like sensation when looking at lights, headaches, insomnia, etc." Some patients themselves have myopia, and they will mistakenly think that it is just the deepening of myopia, and the longer it drags on, they don't know that they have glaucoma until they go to the hospital for examination, but it is often at an advanced stage, and it is difficult at this time. ”
So how can you reduce the probability of developing glaucoma?
1.Avoid turning off the lights and looking at your phone.
Wu Minhui, an ophthalmologist at the Second Hospital of Foshan City, Guangdong Province, reminded that "often facing the computer at close range, the collection and focusing function of the eyeball is continuously adjusted, which will increase the intraocular pressure of the eye, which may induce angle-closure glaucoma;."Lying on the bed and looking at the mobile phone with the light turned off, the light is dim, the pupils are easy to dilate, the corners of the room are narrowed, the drainage of aqueous humor is blocked, and it is also easy to induce angle-closure glaucoma. ”
2.Avoid drinking large amounts of water for short periods of time.
Zhong Ruisheng, the attending physician of Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Fujian Province, reminded in an interview with Xiamen Evening News in February 2023 that drinking more than 1,000 ml of water at a time. Avoid drinking large amounts of water in a short period of time. This causes a sudden increase in intraocular pressure, which can trigger glaucoma.
3.Avoid prolonged, close-up eye use.
With the advent of the information age, people spend more and more time using their eyes, which is easy to cause eye fatigue. Mental stress and eye fatigue may lead to vasoconstrictive dysfunction, increased permeability, and increased aqueous humor secretion, resulting in increased intraocular pressure.
4.Reduce sleeping on your stomach.
Many young people use the computer for a long time every day, or read books with their heads down, and their lives are fast-paced, and they lie on the table to rest when the time is tight at noon. Maintaining a posture with the head bowed for a long time causes the head to become congested, which increases the blood accumulation in the eyes and increases the intraocular pressure.
5.Pay attention to the degree of myopia.
In the younger population, the incidence of high myopia has increased in recent years, and patients with high myopia are more likely to develop open-angle glaucoma due to changes in the structure of the eyeball, which makes the optic nerve more susceptible to damage by intraocular pressure.
6.Have regular fundus exams.
Regular examination of fundus and intraocular pressure is the only way to effectively screen for glaucoma, which can be detected and intervened in time to minimize the impact of the disease on vision, especially if there is a family history.