Spending long hours in front of computers, laptops, or televisions has become a part of modern man’s life today. There is no single profession that does not require use of computers. When at office, one has to spend long eight to nine hours, if not more, in front of the systems.

All these take a heavy toll on the health of modern man, not to mention the eyes. And eyes being the most sensitive organs of our body, get very badly affected by these stress. Result- vision related problems and eye diseases. Here are some useful eye care tips for computer personnel, which if followed religiously will give long-term results:

Work for 20 to 30 minutes on computer at a stretch. Then look at a distant object and blink slowly several times. Do not stare at your computer. This can lead to Sjogren’s syndrome or dry eyes. Make a conscious effort to blink frequently, at least 12 to 15 times every minute. Once you start doing this, it will soon become a habit.

Exercise your eye balls at frequent intervals. Close your eyes and role them underneath the eyelids in clockwise and anti clockwise direction. While you do this this, breathe in deeply and breathe out. Finally, open your eyes very slowly.

Take a small piece of soft linen, say, your clean handkerchief, fold it in a square and puff on it till it is warm. Now, cover your eyes with the handkerchief for about a minute. It helps in relaxing and soothing your eyes. You can also do this with your palms, if you find your handkerchief not clean enough. Take small breaks at frequent intervals, and splash water on your face. This helps to cool your eyes. Take a brisk walk down the floor every time you take a break. Walking not only relaxes your whole body but also increases blood supply to your eyes.

Get an anti-glare screen fixed on to your computer monitor, or use your own pair of anti-glare glasses while working on computers. Also adjust the brightness of the monitor in such a way that the harmful glare from the computer screen is minimum.

It is proved that eye strain is mainly responsible for eyesight problem. Then we can see the way to improve our vision problem is to reduce eye strain and relax our eyes. Regarding how to relax our eyes naturally, a large number of people may not have a clear idea. Actually, it is not difficult to relax our eyes, then to have our vision improvement naturally. The simple thing you need to do is to do some eye exercises on a regular daily basis.

The first eye exercise is Sunning. From the literal meaning, we can know it is related to the sun. Right! In fact, proper amount of sunshine is very important for our health as it can make our body to produce Vitamin D. You can take the eye exercises in the following steps: First, close the eyes with face towards the sun directly. Then move the head to the left and right side to make every part of our eyes can enjoy this beautiful sunshine.

The second simple eye exercise we want to introduce here is palming, which is the most commonly-used one. While sitting in the chair, we can rub our hands until they warm up. Then use the palm to cover our eyes so that we can put ourselves in the dark world. If it is not dark enough, we can use a blanket to cover our eyes. Just think about some pleasant pictures in our mind with deep and slow breath. Therefore, we can enjoy in this darkness with relaxed eyes. This circle is needed to be repeated for 5 times.

The last one is Eights eye exercise. This is especially effective after we work in front of computers for a long time and feel neck and shoulders pressed. In this exercise, it is necessary to find a quiet space. We can begin with drawing imaginary “eights” with our nose together with our head in vertical and horizontal directions. Please note that do not move your head too fast in case of pulling heads. This exercise does not only can help us to relax our eyes with smaller eights, but also can relax our neck and shoulders with bigger eights.