Eye care

[flyboyy]

I recently bought my first pair of non-dollar-store 1.0 glasses. (71 YO) I got a titanium rimless pair same 1.0 .

Whilst chatting with the owner i asked about eyecare. He told me something that is really clever and so i do it daily or when i think of it, the 20/20/20 rule which is very simple and works for me.
Every 20 minutes look at something that is at least 20 feet away for 20 seconds.

I add to that about 5 to 10 'full on blinks' to get the tear ducts to spill some medicine on the lens.
I set my ipod timer to 23 minutes, then i hit repeat, so i have time to do the exercise and get up for a minute to stretch my legs.

I tend to spend probably more time than is 'lowed by the law' staring at the screen, so a bit of TLC doesn't go astray.

 

[Jimmysb]

In the UK if you work using screens, then this is part of you training.

 

[toMACsh]

I've heard this before, but never tried to practice it. I wear glasses, and that's noted on my driver's license, but I can drive without them, although that's not a good idea on the open highway. I only go without long enough to get help from a passenger cleaning something off of a lens.

 

[MacBiter]

Great advice. Here's another : to exercise your eyes, move your eyeballs to look at the four extreme corners of your vision - upper left and right, lower left and right. Do that a few times in succession.

 

[Jimmysb]

This good piece of advice is why it is wise not to have your monitor backed to a wall, but to an open space, or window, so you just need to look over your monitor, to exercise your eyes, though sadly I do not take my own advice, happily these days I rarely spend more than 20 consecutive minute on my computer - life is too short