How can you protect your eyes from blue light damage and dark circle|| 9 easy Tips to prevent blue light eye damage ||

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Nowadays most of us spent our whole day staring at one screen or another, Weather for work or to relax, the blue light coming from the screen of our computer and phones affects our body’s circadian rhythm, our natural wake and most importantly harms our delicate eye area. Consequently, we face many problems, like headaches, blurry vision, dryness, redness, and itchiness in our eyes, even we suffer from dreaded dark circles around our eye area.

 

WHAT IS BLUE LIGHT?

Sunlight is the strongest producer of natural blue light and consuming natural blue light is super beneficial for our health, it helps boosts our attention level, making us more alert and productive. Blue light is not something special from light, the only difference is the blue light comes from our computer, phone, television, tablets, etc. and it harms your eyes, around the eye area even our sleeping cycle.

Here are some easy and effective tips to protect your eyes from harmful blue light damage and make your screen times much easier and bearable for your eyes:

 

FILTER IT:

The blue light coming from your computer or phone can strain your eye and even cause insomnia, so you are someone like me and can’t stop bingeing that new show or scrolling through Instagram or Facebook, Download a good blue light filter app on your computer or phone to change the temperature of the light, you can even change the light and color setting built into your phone, for healthier strolling.

Pro tip: Do on your blue light filter especially at night when you are scrolling your phone or working on your computer in a dark room.

WEAR BLUE LIGHT BLOCKING GLASS:

If you are someone spent your whole day working on the computer, invest in a good blue light blocking glasses that will protect your eyes and make them much more comfortable.

Wear blue light blocking glass

COOLING EYE MASK:

Unfortunately, puffy eyes and dark circles come hand in hand with extended screen time. If you are suffering from major dark circle and puffiness around your eye area then a cooling and a soothing eye mask will come to your rescue.

Here are two quick and easy eye masks that you can make at home and pamper your eyes:

Cucumber eye mask:

Take 2 to 3 tbsp of cucumber juice in a blow and refrigerate it for 5 mins, dip a cotton pad into it and place the cotton pads around your eye area. Leave it for 15 minutes then massage the left-over juice.

You can do this even with cucumber slices.

Cucumber is rich in vitamin C and high in water content, which moisturizes and  gives soothing effect under your eye area and reduces puffiness.

Coffee and chilled milk:

 Take 1 tbsp of raw and chilled milk, mix it with 1 tbsp of finely ground coffee and apply the mixture around your eye area and rinse it off after 15 mins.

The jolt of caffeine helps wake up your tired eyes and reduce dark circles, while raw, chilled milk moisturizes the delicate eye area and gives a cooling effect.

HYDRATE YOURSELF:

Along with an overdose of screens, dry and dull eyes are also symptoms of dehydration. Say no to coffee and tea to keep you awake. Instead, drink tons of water, replenishing fruit juices and hydrating fruits, like watermelon, cucumber, pineapple or coconut water and orange juice.  

Hydrate yourself

RELAX THE NERVES:

Release tension in the muscles around your eyes by using your fingertips to apply light pressure on the eye socket boner. This will relax the nerves and improves blood circulation.

BLINK! BLINK! & BLINK!

If your eyes are feeling tired and dull, Blinking is a simple and effective way to keep your eyes fresh and focus longer. A blink helps to lubricate, & nourish the eyes and prevents dryness; it also helps clean the surface of your eye for clearer vision. So! Skip the medicated eye drops and blinks away. This simple exercise will help your eyes to produce more tears and keep your eyes hydrated

SPLASH OF WATER:

Take some break from your screen time and splash some fresh and cold water on your face and eyes, whenever your eyes are feeling dry and sticky. Do this at least four times a day for that refreshing effect, it helps tone up the muscles around the eye area and brighten up dull and tired eyes.

Splash some cold water on face & eyes 

GIVE YOUR EYES SOME REST:

If you have to work on your computer or on your phone for the whole day, then do not forget to take a little break from your screen. You can enjoy the break time looking at nature outside or you can even take a short nap, these will help you increase your work efficiency and makes your brain and eyes refreshed.

AVOID DEVICES BEFORE SLEEPING:

This is the most common piece of suggestion or advise, that you have heard for a million times, but trust me there is nothing that can ruin your sleep more than your phone or any bright screen. So! An hour before sleeping keep your phone away from you and spend some quality time with yourself by reading your favorite book or listening some music, Or, even you can meditate for 15 minutes before going to bed for that perfect and peaceful sleep.

Avoid devices before sleeping

 

  These are some effective and easy tips to protect your eyes from blue light damage, hope these tips will help you to keep your eyes safe on screen time and build healthier habits to have you seeing clearly.

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