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How to protect your eyes before and after swimming?

By pupves on Mar 14, 2011 |Health and Fitness

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In summer, swimming is the most popular sport people like, it can enhance the physical quality of the summer to enjoy the fun of water, do you know how to protect your eyes before and after swimming?

After swimming, there are often red eyes, astringent, and sometimes more secretions, which is the performance of conjunctival inflammation. After swimming, the occurrence of conjunctivitis, mostly by bacteria, virus infection. Swimming is also easy to spread trachoma.

Swimming pool water disinfection common bleaching powder, bleaching powder is a kind of disinfectant, a mild irritant, can be due to the chemical stimulation of non-infectious conjunctivitis. But the water is relatively low concentrations of chloride of lime, generally there is no damage to the eyes. On the contrary, because the bleach disinfectant in water inhibited bacteria and make water clean, and can reduce the incidence of infectious eye disease. However, if sterilization is not standardized or checked before swimming to swimmers is not strict, after swimming can also cause conjunctivitis. If the natural water in the river swimming, water disinfection is not possible, especially near the river town, residents pay no attention to the water when water, sanitation, contaminated water opportunities, in which the water after swimming, easily lead to bacteria, viruses conjunctivitis.

After swimming, eye redness how to do it?
Swimming in the pool by the bleach disinfectant conjunctivitis caused mild stimulation, often in the water after a slight eye redness, tens of minutes to a few hours later, it will go away, and generally do not have treatment. If there are increasing trends or swim in the water without disinfection, easily lead to bacteria, viral conjunctivitis, often in newly hatched water or not obvious symptoms are very light, 1 to 2 days later had red eyes, discharge gradually increased, should be treated in time, and antibiotics or antiviral eye drops. Take out your dry towel from waterproof coach bag to dry your eyes.

How to protect their eyes after swimming it?
(1) should be strictly prohibited "pink eye" or other infectious diseases in patients who go to public swimming areas for swimming. Strengthen examination before swimming.
(2) try to choose good water quality, less pollution for swimming swimming. To use dry bag to pack your clothes, do not throw everywhere carelessly.
(3) People with high myopia who can not head down and diving to avoid lead to retinal detachment.
(4) swimming pool in a timely manner in accordance with regulations must change the water and disinfected.
(5) conditions, the best in swimming after the time with fresh water wash, bath.
(6) diving, try to close your eyes, qualified person may wear protective glasses.
After swimming, people who frequent conjunctivitis, after each swim, antibiotic eye drops several points in time, have some preventive effect.

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