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Fun Facts About Your Eyes
If your eyelashes are falling out, and you are not taking any medications, see your doctor.
Nearsightedness is inherited.
The first inventor of eye surgery instruments was in ancient Persia.
Washing your hands is important to fight eye infections.
Rubbing your eyes is not considered good if you are very nearsighted
(myopic) or if you had eye surgery even LASIK.
Smoking can cause fine wrinkles around the eyes.
Glaucoma, an eye disease, Â can occur at any age, from birth to old age.
Each blink is 400 microseconds.
If the outer third of your eyebrows are falling out, see your doctor. You may have thyroid problems.
Hepatitis virus has been found in tears.
Always sunglasses to protect yourself from UV light even if it is not sunny.
After cataract surgery, your eyesight is brighter, usually within one week of surgery.
If you let water get into your eyes while wearing contact lenses, you can have a serious infection. Be careful.
Your tears provide antibodies to fight infection.
After cancer treatments, the eyelashes usually grow back fully.
Reading your phone all day without a break may give you a headache.
If traveling abroad, do not wear your contact lens to swim or shower.
In the embryo, the eye is formed from the same tissue as the brain.
Certain parasites attack the eye: pork, lamb and beef parasites. So avoid poorly cooked pork, beef and lamb.
In Europe, Asia and Australia, there are eyedrops for nearsightedness.
AIDS has been found in tears.
Sagging lower eyelids can be due to medication or aging.
Thyroid disease can affect your eyes.
Most Caucasian babies have blue eyes at birth.
Babies cannot see color until age 6 months.
There are now treatments for age related macular degeneration that can return the patient to driving vision.
Upper eyelid cosmetic surgery is easier to perform and is safer than lower eyelid cosmetic surgery.
If you sleep overnight in your contact lenses, you can have some serious problems. Be careful.
Artificial tears are helpful for your eyes when the air is hot and dry or extreme cold.
Diabetes can affect your eyes at the same time it affects your kidneys.
You can ruin the special coatings of your eyeglasses if you use alcohol or very strong detergent.
Your baby’s eye color is lighter at birth than at 6 months.
20% of the population have an eye that is not quite round like a sphere, but more oval, this is called astigmatism.
Asian eyelids have an epicanthic fold, a slightly different anatomy than Caucasians.
Diabetic people can wear soft contact lenses but under the care of an ophthalmologist or optometrist.
Do not share contact lenses.
You can have UV protection built in the front and back of your glasses, ask your optician.
Jumping on a trampoline as an adult can lead to a retinal problem.
Yellow tinted glasses are helpful at 5 pm and 7 am for sports or driving.
Some people have one eye that is blue and the other eye that is green.
Age related macular degeneration occurs usually at age 55: don’t take the eye  vitamins unless you have the diagnosis.
The dosage on the bottle may be too strong for you if you are normal.
The dosage on the bottle may be too strong for you if you are normal.
Colorblindness is on the X chromosome so men are more likely than
women to be colorblind.
African American babies have eyes that darken at 6 months.
Corona virus has been found in tears.
You can lose vision when climbing up a high mountain.
If you see the color red as brighter in one eye than the other, see your eye MD.
In some major cities in China, there is an incidence of  90% of nearsightedness among the children.
Diabetes can affect the cornea, the outside part of the eye.
At birth, babies only see black and white.
There are female hormone receptors for eyelash growth that are different from the men.
The three leading causes of blindness are diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and age related macular degeneration in the US.
Wrinkles around the eyes are aggravated by sun damage.
Polarized tinted glasses are helpful in the sun for sports.
