The sun's UV rays can damage your eyes causing permanent and temporary blindness, cataracts, macular degeneration, tumors and cancer.
UV rays can damage the eye tissue, cornea and lens.
Protecting your eyes while you're young can prevent these damages in your later years.
UV rays from the natural sun or indoor tanning both can be dangerous and eye protection must be used for both.
Many people are unaware of the UV rays dangers imposing a threat to their health.
When purchasing sunglasses, make sure they say 100% UV block protection and wear eye goggles when indoor tanning.
These are offered at the tanning salons.
Getting your eyes sunburned is painful and miserable as it causes temporary blindness, white spots, blurry vision and other problems.
You mostly think of older folks having cataracts but younger people get them from damages due to overexposure to the sun's rays.
You think of needing sunglasses in the summer only, but you are still exposed to the ultraviolet rays even on cloudy days and winter months, so wear your sunglasses all the time when going outside.
If you wear tinted contact lenses, it's not enough; you still need to wear your sunglasses.
Younger people don't realize the importance of protecting their eyes from the sun, but there are many hippies from the 1960's who didn't either and today they're in their sixties feeling the damage caused from the sun.
Most have cataracts (which can only be removed by expensive surgery) and some are blind or vision is very poor.
Take a lesson from them and save your eyes from UV rays.
A friend of mine was tanning under a sunlamp several years ago and didn't protect her eyes.
Her eyes were sunburned and they were red, swollen and she was blind for two weeks.
She went crazy not being able to see, but her sight was eventually restored.
She wears contacts today from poor vision and the doctor seems to think it was the sunlamp that caused her poor vision today.
Indoor tanners complain about raccoon eyes from the eye goggles but these lines disappear in several hours.
Most tanners close their eyes or put a towel over their face thinking it's just as good as the goggles.
The UV rays can penetrate the towel and the thin eyelid.
Also the eyelid gets damaged which some people doesn't think it's an important part of the eye, which in fact it is.
The eyelid keeps the dust and other debris from getting in your eyes.
The sun's UV rays can damage your eyes if they're not properly protected.
UV rays can damage the eye tissue, cornea and lens.
Protecting your eyes while you're young can prevent these damages in your later years.
UV rays from the natural sun or indoor tanning both can be dangerous and eye protection must be used for both.
Many people are unaware of the UV rays dangers imposing a threat to their health.
When purchasing sunglasses, make sure they say 100% UV block protection and wear eye goggles when indoor tanning.
These are offered at the tanning salons.
Getting your eyes sunburned is painful and miserable as it causes temporary blindness, white spots, blurry vision and other problems.
You mostly think of older folks having cataracts but younger people get them from damages due to overexposure to the sun's rays.
You think of needing sunglasses in the summer only, but you are still exposed to the ultraviolet rays even on cloudy days and winter months, so wear your sunglasses all the time when going outside.
If you wear tinted contact lenses, it's not enough; you still need to wear your sunglasses.
Younger people don't realize the importance of protecting their eyes from the sun, but there are many hippies from the 1960's who didn't either and today they're in their sixties feeling the damage caused from the sun.
Most have cataracts (which can only be removed by expensive surgery) and some are blind or vision is very poor.
Take a lesson from them and save your eyes from UV rays.
A friend of mine was tanning under a sunlamp several years ago and didn't protect her eyes.
Her eyes were sunburned and they were red, swollen and she was blind for two weeks.
She went crazy not being able to see, but her sight was eventually restored.
She wears contacts today from poor vision and the doctor seems to think it was the sunlamp that caused her poor vision today.
Indoor tanners complain about raccoon eyes from the eye goggles but these lines disappear in several hours.
Most tanners close their eyes or put a towel over their face thinking it's just as good as the goggles.
The UV rays can penetrate the towel and the thin eyelid.
Also the eyelid gets damaged which some people doesn't think it's an important part of the eye, which in fact it is.
The eyelid keeps the dust and other debris from getting in your eyes.
The sun's UV rays can damage your eyes if they're not properly protected.
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