4 Eye care tips for Frequent Summer Travellers
As moving straight forward to the heart of the summer period, where swimsuit and flip-flops become permanent elements of our everyday bags, travelling gets quite more frequent, even for shorter escapes in order to enjoy as much sunlight as possible.
Although, while summer is the ideal period of discovering joy’s hideout, and increase levels of happiness and enjoyment, we should not forget that there is a also a period characterized by high temperatures and dryness, something that acts as an important contributing factor for our skin and eye health.
By taking this into consideration, below you will find 4 easily applicable though determining care tips, for maintaining your eye health on an overall good and non-risky state, while travelling often.
1. Long-haul trips
Deciding to fly overseas to catch some extra sun rays and stunning coasts, requires the according preparations and precaution on specific aspects.
High humidity and the temperature fluctuation that dominate inside the air-cabin, are already not very favourable for your eyes, and for sure, you wouldn’t like to strain them completely by wearing your contact lenses.
Upon your arrival, try putting a warm compress over your eyes for 5-10 minutes to smooth any irritation.
2. Emergency Plan
Since you are in a different location than in the ordinary one, it is quite normal if you feel partially unsafe, and getting frustrated in the thought of needing medical internation to face an unpredictable situation.
Even though in most cases it is not hard to encounter the suitable professional, you can always prevent such a situation that increases your stress level, by searching to Find an ophthalmologist in advance.
Having an existent eye-history of infections or injuries, is an additional reason to do so, or even contact them to ask for guidance and support.
3. Get your Shields
As people used to say, don’t go to the war without your shield. In this case, this means that you should not neglect reserving yourself enough protection against external circumstances.
On one hand, the sun rays are so intense that even if not looking directly at it, the sunlight can harm your vision during daytime, and on the other hand, the chlorinated water used in swimming pools to reduce germ contamination, is harmful for the eyes.
So, for the second case we recommend using swim goggles, while for the first, providing yourself a high-quality pair of sunglasses against UVA & UVB rays, and actually have them always in your day bag, along with packing a spare pair.
4. Water-in
As plants need to be watered, so do your eyes, in a way. Our eyes are highly-hydrophile, which means that being hydrated is necessary to avoid irritations and itching, red-eye situation, blurred vision, and headaches.
This can be achieved in two ways: firstly, with taking care particularly of your eyes, by following tip no3. Blinking often and using drops to moisturize and cause artificial tears, and secondly, by the whole boy hydration.
