The Aged and Ocular Dryness

It is a blissful day and Christmas is finally here, celebrations are ongoing, we are all spending time with family and friends and now we await the dawn of a new age, a new year, and the beginning of many great things to come.

It could be the reason for our transient absence on the blockchain but I always think these times are even the best of times to learn and share with our neighbors and our families since these are times when we get to spend a lot of time with them and if any health topic should pop in you could go like or I read this from an Optometrist on the Blockchain and this is what he had to share.

So for the past few writeups, we have been about dry eyes for a while now, first we looked at it in general and then we looked at why glaucoma patients tend to experience dry eyes and we came to understand it is as a result of the beta blockers used in the management whose side effect tends to reduce aqueous drainage or the normal or basal tear film on the eye.

Today's topic is probably something you may have easily guessed or may have heard me mentioned transiently sometime when i discussed other topics but since it is family time and we are going to be having the aged with us, let's go back to learning this and i do hope that you make use of this knowledge to the benefit of the oldies at home.

Aging is a normal process that none of us can escape, our body starts up vibrant and the more we use it, just like a car it parts tend to weaken and breakdown requiring maintenance every now and now and then. This we do by our frequent visit to the hospital to check what could be wrong somewhere, do the necessary repairs take the necessary drugs and get ourselves back on track on in shape.

But there are somethings that no matter what we do we cannot not stop it from happening, for instance a 50 year old car is a 50 year old care, not matter how well it may be maintained it is 50 years and the mileage would show the life it has lived, the distances it has travelled, the load it has carried and all that, the same goes for man too, the older we get, it doesn't matter how well you keep yourself, eating healthy, taking regular exercises, taking the necessary vitamin supplements and all that.

Yes you will continue to remain vibrant, perhaps you would be a 50 year old with the looks and health of a 30 year old but some changes like your eyes weakening as you age cannot really be stopped. Your eyes accomodation no matter how much effort you put in will start to go down as soon as you hit the age of 40 years and your eye's lens changes, well that would depend a whole lot on your lifestyle but it would still go down in bits and pieces as as you start to get weakers or more cloudy vision as my patients refer to call it.

Then there is the eye of dryness, ideally there is a basal amount of tears that the eye is supposed to be producing at any point in time in your daily life. This basal tears is what helps your eyes feel lubricated all the time, at least enough to ensure all other parameters is functioning according as it ought to be. When we grow older this mechanism is a bit reduced in function and the result is that our basal tear limit is reduced and the effect is that the eyes now try to dry up quicker than it ought to resulting in all the symptoms that comes with dry eye syndrome, the most common being burning sensation.

With everything said, there tend to be a remedy or a management process that works and gives you the vibrancy you felt whiles you were younger, do not sit home and pity yourself because you think you are so not old which why, my recommendation is to visit the Optometrist as soon as possible as soon as you notice some of these things happening to you and you can be rest asssured he or she will take good care of you and your needs and you should feel brand new again.

And so it is wrap, many seasons greetings to all of us on the blockchain, it is such a pleasure to have had to spend the year here with us all, my special thanks to @agmoore who always made me feel noticed when my articles are read, i love you so much thank you for the love and care, to @mcsamm and @collinz, it is such a pleasure and a privilege to know you, you are my mentors and guide ever since i found my way on the blockchain even before the days of Hive, to @gentleshaid, @lemouth, you made my time in the stemsocial community worthwhile, i felt welcome always and my knowledge felt like it belong, God bless and thank you always for the love and to all the wonderful people who i cannot list all here. May the year 2024 be a blessed one for us. Cheers!