Smile Pro's vision correction 'Dry eyes' Reduce worries
Dec 12, 2024
More than 9 out of 10 Koreans, men and women, are known to use smartphones.
There are a wide variety of points and examples that excessive use of IT devices can adversely affect health. Major diseases include straight neck syndrome, insomnia, and wrist disease, and dry eye is a typical ophthalmic disease.
Dry eyes are a disease caused by insufficient secretion of tears or excessive evaporation. It's not seasonal, but it can get worse in winter when it's dry and the heating is on.
In particular, if dry eyes become severe due to excessive use of smartphones or IT devices, symptoms of dry eyes usually appear, and sometimes eye waste is not washed well, causing inflammation of the tear glands and eyeball surfaces and symptoms such as itchy eyes, foreign body, itchiness, and congestion. When the tear layer covering the cornea is broken, the refractive index changes and vision may decrease. If dust enters the dried cornea, it will cause a wound, which will worsen vision loss and cause inflammation, so you should be careful.
The dependence on smartphones is high throughout daily life, and as a result, dry eyes increase, the pattern of choosing vision correction is also changing. The preference for LASIK, LASEK, which is relatively vulnerable to dry eyes, and Smile LASIK, which gradually degenerates and has less corneal damage, has already become a trend.
According to a random survey of 200 patients with vision correction in my ophthalmology in the past, 92% of the respondents had symptoms of dry eyes, and 87% of them chose Smile Lasik vision correction.
Eye correction such as LASIK, LASEK, and SMILE LASIK restores vision by laser-correcting the cornea to correct refraction.
In this process, LASIK must cut off the corneal surface by about 24 mm, and LASEK corrects vision by peeling off the corneal surface with drugs. Some damage to the cornea is inevitable, and there is a high possibility that dry eyes will become severe or occur due to damage to the perceptual nerves that secrete tears.
On the other hand, Smile LASIK and SmilePro are corrected inside the cornea (substituted layer) using a femtosecond laser that penetrates the cornea surface. In addition, the surgery can be completed with 1mm of ultra-fine incision to minimize perceptual nerve damage. If there is less damage to the perception nerve, the risk of dry eyes is reduced.
Regardless of whether or not they have vision correction, it is helpful for those who are vulnerable to dry eyes to use artificial tears prescribed by hospitals properly or to receive regular IPL phototherapy if they are uncomfortable. You should take a 10-minute break per hour without looking at electronic devices such as smartphones and PC screens for a long time.
It is good to maintain proper indoor humidity in winter and drink water often. Eating a lot of green and yellow vegetables rich in vitamin A, which keeps the mucous membranes on the eyeball surface healthy, may also be helpful. In addition, if you want to relieve your worries about dry eyes and receive vision correction, it is desirable to choose a vision correction method that preserves the corneal surface as much as possible and saves the perceptual nerve.
Help = Onnuri Smile An, Director Kim Ji-sun
There are a wide variety of points and examples that excessive use of IT devices can adversely affect health. Major diseases include straight neck syndrome, insomnia, and wrist disease, and dry eye is a typical ophthalmic disease.
Dry eyes are a disease caused by insufficient secretion of tears or excessive evaporation. It's not seasonal, but it can get worse in winter when it's dry and the heating is on.
In particular, if dry eyes become severe due to excessive use of smartphones or IT devices, symptoms of dry eyes usually appear, and sometimes eye waste is not washed well, causing inflammation of the tear glands and eyeball surfaces and symptoms such as itchy eyes, foreign body, itchiness, and congestion. When the tear layer covering the cornea is broken, the refractive index changes and vision may decrease. If dust enters the dried cornea, it will cause a wound, which will worsen vision loss and cause inflammation, so you should be careful.
The dependence on smartphones is high throughout daily life, and as a result, dry eyes increase, the pattern of choosing vision correction is also changing. The preference for LASIK, LASEK, which is relatively vulnerable to dry eyes, and Smile LASIK, which gradually degenerates and has less corneal damage, has already become a trend.
According to a random survey of 200 patients with vision correction in my ophthalmology in the past, 92% of the respondents had symptoms of dry eyes, and 87% of them chose Smile Lasik vision correction.
Eye correction such as LASIK, LASEK, and SMILE LASIK restores vision by laser-correcting the cornea to correct refraction.
In this process, LASIK must cut off the corneal surface by about 24 mm, and LASEK corrects vision by peeling off the corneal surface with drugs. Some damage to the cornea is inevitable, and there is a high possibility that dry eyes will become severe or occur due to damage to the perceptual nerves that secrete tears.
On the other hand, Smile LASIK and SmilePro are corrected inside the cornea (substituted layer) using a femtosecond laser that penetrates the cornea surface. In addition, the surgery can be completed with 1mm of ultra-fine incision to minimize perceptual nerve damage. If there is less damage to the perception nerve, the risk of dry eyes is reduced.
Regardless of whether or not they have vision correction, it is helpful for those who are vulnerable to dry eyes to use artificial tears prescribed by hospitals properly or to receive regular IPL phototherapy if they are uncomfortable. You should take a 10-minute break per hour without looking at electronic devices such as smartphones and PC screens for a long time.
It is good to maintain proper indoor humidity in winter and drink water often. Eating a lot of green and yellow vegetables rich in vitamin A, which keeps the mucous membranes on the eyeball surface healthy, may also be helpful. In addition, if you want to relieve your worries about dry eyes and receive vision correction, it is desirable to choose a vision correction method that preserves the corneal surface as much as possible and saves the perceptual nerve.
Help = Onnuri Smile An, Director Kim Ji-sun
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