Child Eye Care Tips and Guide

Child Eye Care and Vitamins
Vitamins A and B are essential for children to have sparkling and clear eyes. Vitamin A prevents night blindness, eye strain and fatigue. It also helps the tear ducts in secreting moisture, which gives eyes their sparkle. Babies can be given vitamin A drops orally, which can be fed in a spoon or by a dropper into the mouth, in the first month of their birth.

Child Eye Care – What Should you Know?
As your infant grows into a toddler, when he shows interest in seeing the pictures in a book, be sure that the room is well lit. Natural light is best during daytime, so ensure that your child's room gets plenty of sunshine and air. At night, be sure that enough light falls on the book, which he is seeing or reading.

Make sure that your child is not put to any eye strain. See that he does not read in very dazzling or dim light. Initially, check that the books the child reads has large prints. If he watches television, be sure to have a soft indirect lighting in the room, and let your child watch it from a distance of at least eight feet.

Child Eye Care Guide
If you suspect your child of having difficulty in focusing or having a blurred vision, see an eye specialist immediately. If he advises wearing spectacles for improvement of sight, see that he gets a pair as early as possible, and that he wears them at once. He should remove them from time to time, and close his eyes for at least five minutes: then blink a dozen times before wearing them again. This helps to relax his eye muscles.

A child may suddenly develop squint between the ages of two and six years. This can be cured if it is attended to immediately. It is common for a baby to have crossed eyes in the first couple of months, but by the third month they become steady and straight.

Some babies have watery eyes but they clear up by the time they turn one year. You may also notice a discharge from the comer of the eyes. White matter collects in the comer of the eye and along the edges of the lids. This discharge will make the lids stick together, caused by obstructed tear ducts. But even this is a passing phase. Wet a small ball of cotton and gently wipe the matter away. Do not apply pressure at all.

Foreign Particle and Child Eye Care
If some grit or foreign particle gets into your child's eye, you can remove it by drawing the upper eyelid down and away from the eye, and holding it by the lashes. This allows the tears to wash the grit out of the eye. Otherwise you can ask your child to open the eye into a cup of water and blink a couple of times. If this too proves unsuccessful, take him to see a doctor, but see that he does not rub his eye. He can hold a soft cloth or a wad of cotton on his affected eye till the doctor sees him.

Health Benefits of Beard and Moustache

And now, a quote from Dr. Ruddock, “The beard and the moustache should be permitted to grow as they afford an excellent protection to the delicate organs of the voice of those in whom it is subjected to undue or irregular exercise. After a public address, the tissues in the vicinity of the throat become relaxed and on leaving the place of assembly and entering the open air, inflammatory action commences, and if repeated, chronic affections of the throat and bronchial tubes are often induced; but the unshorn natural respirator, which our Maker intended to be one of the distinguishing features of the male seed, effectively protects these important parts. The hair planted on the human face by the wisdom and goodness of our Creator, has its uses, and we may add, its beauties. Let the young man, therefore, never become a slave to the false and pernicious fashion which compels him to shave off the beard, as it is found contributory to the health, if not the personal improvement, of those who wear it."

Ruddock recommended growth of beard and moustache not only for prevention of sore throat and hoarseness of voice, but for avoiding bronchitis as well.

According to him, the beard and moustache are a .kind of a natural respirator, the shaving off of which is a frequent cause of acute and chronic bronchitis. Can we doubt the wisdom and beneficence of the Creator in giving this ornament to the man, who is so frequently exposed to atmospheric vicissitudes, and withholding it from the woman, who as the keeper at home, requires no such appendage? Hair is an imperfect conductor of both heat and cold and placed round the entrance to the nose and lungs and acts as a blanket, which promotes warmth in cold weather and prevents the dissolving of ice in hot weather. In many instances, the hirsute appendages would protect lawyers, clergymen or other public speakers and singers from the injurious effects of rapid variations of the atmosphere from which professional men so often suffer.