The habit of rubbing your eyes with your hands can lead to serious health problems.
Ophthalmologist and microsurgeon Svetlana Mirgorodskaya warned about this.
The expert explained why it is necessary to break this habit in a conversation with the publication Gazeta.Ru .
Why you shouldn't rub your eyes with your hands
Firstly, it is fraught with infection of the anterior part of the eye.
Treatment of bacterial conjunctivitis/blepharitis, Mirgorodskaya warned, can take several weeks.
These diseases manifest themselves as redness of the eyes and eyelids, itching, and swelling.
Secondly, you can damage your eye and get corneal or conjunctival erosion.
Without proper treatment, such injuries are fraught with long-term recurrence and bacterial complications.
And chronic eye trauma, the doctor continued, leads to keratoconus, a degenerative disease of the cornea.
This disease causes changes in the shape of the cornea and deterioration of vision.
Which is not corrected by glasses or soft contact lenses, ” the doctor added.
