What is COVID-19?
How can coronavirus affect your eyes?
Eye Care Tips to Protect Yourself from COVID-19
- Avoid Wearing Contact Lenses: Managing your contact lenses can be a tiresome job during the prevalence of COVID-19. Your contact lenses can act as a fomite and the virus can easily enter your eyes via the use of contact lenses.
- Use Glasses: Using glasses is highly beneficial during the coronavirus pandemic as if someone sneezes or coughs in front of you, the water droplets from the infected person won’t enter your eyes directly as your eyes are protected with spectacles.
- Frequently Disinfect All Sets of Spectacles: If you have to go out from your home for some work; remember to use an alcohol-based sanitizer or soap water to regularly disinfect all sets of glasses. This will help you stay away from COVID-19.
- Stock up on Eye Medicines: Always keep a backup of all necessary medicines at your home. Avoid going outside unless and until it is an emergency. Visit your nearby drug store and stock up eye medicines as other people will also do the same and there might be a scarcity of eye medicines.
- Avoid Rubbing Your Eyes: Avoid rubbing your eyes as we have seen that the virus may enter your body via eyes and cause pink eyes or conjunctivitis. If you feel irritation in your eyes and an urge to rub, wash your hands with soap water or an alcohol-based sanitizer.
- Practice Safe Hygiene: Maintain social distancing, wash your hands, and cover your mouth while coughing or sneezing in front of others Remember, it is us who can put an end to the spreading of COVID-19. Let us be responsible and keep ourselves and others safe.
- Rinse Your Eyes Regularly: It is crucial to wash your hands properly. However, rinsing your eyes with a saline solution or even plain water can also help keep them clean and free of any harmful particles nearby.
- Differentiate between COVID-19 and Seasonal Allergies: The coronavirus pandemic can easily make you fret if somehow you are experiencing typical symptoms like runny nose, eye irritations, increase in body temperature, or sneezing. What you should do is maintain your calm and not rush for emergency medical help. The common COVID-19 symptoms are – shortness of breath, caught, sore throat, chest pain, tiredness, etc. So, if you don’t have these aforementioned symptoms you’re safe!
