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Cancer Prevention And What Green Tea Can Do

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Most people are scared stiff of contracting cancer. That is perfectly understandable – who wants to spend a couple of years experiencing chemotherapy just to die a couple of years later? Or even if you recover it is a couple of years out of your life that have been worrying and gruelling. And not merely for the patient but for friends and family too.

So, some people do everything possible to reduce the risks of developing cancer. Most of us do not think we know how to do this, others are not certain, but they have heard or read something that sounds ‘around about correct’ and others are convinced that they know how to avoid contracting cancer.

My wife is convinced that I might get cancer from eating burnt toast and others are convinced that they can stave off cancer by saturating their flesh with green tea. It has often been pointed out and for decades as well, that countries where green tea is the norm, say the Far East, have a much lower incidence of cancer than we do in the West.

And this is almost certainly true at the moment. But why is it a fact? I live in Asia and diabetes is the number one killer near me. Do Asians not get cancer as much as we do because they drink green tea or for other reasons?

In fact, where I live in Northern Thailand, I have never seen anyone drink tea or coffee or accept a cup off me, except my wife. People here drink water or alcohol, depending on the time of day. Kids like Cola or Sprite or whatever because they watch as well much TV, but drink a lot of water.

It is stated that green tea is an anti-oxidant and it is alleged that anti-oxidants help eliminate free radicals which could cause cancer. If this is the case, then the claims for green tea are perhaps more believable.

However, the claims are so all-embracing that it makes me sceptical. I am reading a report just now that claims that green tea will prevent the formation of cancerous cells in the: “… aesophagus, bladder, on the skin, in the ovaries, the pancreas and the prostate”.

That is a very tall order indeed.

The problem for me with all these claims is that they are not corroborated – there are no references that you can follow that do not lead to companies selling green tea. This is a problem.

Some will say that the government or the pharmaceutical firms are suppressing the knowledge because they want to sell more costly drugs – and this might be a fact – grist to the mill for conspiracy theorists and sellers of Chinese tea.

Now that we appear to be entering into a ‘new era’, a more sceptical and more enlightened era (thanks a great deal to the World Wide Web), couldn’t someone do some investigation on green tea and Acai berries and all the rest of the stuff you read of in your junk emails and put an end once and for all to the false hopes, if that is what they are, that we are being sold each day by unscrupulous advertisers hoping for a quick buck?

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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Traditional Medications

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

As you all know, the way that it works with medicine is: you get sick, you go to the medical doctor, he/she gives you a prescription, you buy that, take it and hopefully make a full recovery. In a way, it has always been like that. Individuals went to the most skilled person in the village for advice on how to cure an ailment, a couple of herbs were prescribed and a donation was given.

The only real difference in the method nowadays is that then, there was a far higher general awareness of the power of herbs. These days, in the Developed World at least, the medical profession and the pharmaceuticals have managed to wean us off herbs by one means or another – normally fear.

The fact is that most drugs are manufactured from herbs or plants or from synthesized chemicals found in herbs and plants. In a way, all we have done is substituted purchasing for picking.

OK, I know that it is more complicated than that. Drugs are often combinations that work well together and being told to take one tablet a day saves you having to worry about overdosing, but there are still often side-effects. Just read the leaflet inside the box of your next box of pills.

Mine says: anxiety, fainting, erectile dysfunction, low blood pressure, diarrheoa and heart failure. Enchanting, isn’t it? They are pills for high blood pressure (beta-blockers). I live in a small village in northern Thailand, where high blood pressure is not a difficulty, but I know one old lady who has it and high cholesterol and her nurse showed her which tree to choose leaves from to make a tea. She does not take tablets, but I still do.

There is also a woman who started coming into our garden four months ago to pick purple flowers off a kind of wisteria that we grow (dork anchan). ‘It is for my son’s very bad cough’, she said. Asthma, I think she meant.

Anyway, she picks a handful a week and her son is fine. I had a cough at Christmas and tried it myself. I drank two cups of tea before going to bed and I drank the cold dregs in the morning, but my cough had already gone.

The hottest time of the year here is March – May, after which it is still hot but the monsoons come and cool it down. Last year, for the first time in my life I suffered from prickly heat in the hot snap. This year it began again, but someone suggested Aloe Vera.

‘Naturally’, said my wife and went into the garden to cut some. She cut two small ‘leaves’ and I spent three days smearing the sap onto the affected parts. It had almost gone on the second day, but it vanished on the third day and has not returned in spite of the fact that it has become hotter since then.

A great deal of individuals are taking another look at traditional medications and I am going to become one of them. The problem in our village is that my Thai is not fluent, just my wife speaks some English and people are afraid to talk about the old ways in case I think that they are backward.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with the macular degeneration test. If you want to know more, please visit our website at Macular Degenerative Disease

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Places Where People Live Longer

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

Most people do not look forward to death. They would like to live a long life and endeavour to stay eternally young. The peoples of each country spend billions every year on health care and beauty products.

Some individuals believe that the length of time you live is written in fate and there is nothing that you can do to change it, others think that we just have a certain number of heart beats, but most people believe that genetics, diet and lifestyle are the main influences.

However, there may be another feature worth looking into: your place of residence. There are a couple of places around the world where individuals appear to live longer, on average, than is normal for their country or globally.

Take the city of Okinawa in southern Japan. Okinawa has over a million inhabitants, 900 of whom are more than 100 years of age. Japan has an aging populace in general, but nowhere there matches Okinawa for longevity and the percentage of centenarians is between four and five times higher than in the UK or the USA.

Not just do Okinawans live longer, but they also tend to remain healthy until their dying days, which is everyone’s dream. Diet is considered to be the main reason why Okinawans live such long, healthy lives. They consume a great deal of fish, tofu, soya and seaweed and swill it down with plenty of tea.

This makes their diet low in saturated fats and pretty low in salt. However, it is also a widely-held belief in Okinawa that one should only consume until one is 80% full not 100% This may put less strain on the digestive system, but no one is quite certain yet if this has a bearing on living a longer, healthy life.

Then there is Loma Linda in California, the USA. The citizens of Loma Linda live an average of five to ten years longer than the residents of neighbouring towns. The town is mainly Seventh Day Adventist, which preaches vegetarianism, no smoking and no alcohol. Some will look to these reasons as the factors for living longer.

However, this does not account for why nearly everyone, even the smoking, alcohol-drinking, meat-eating residents, lives longer. Others put the longevity down to religious belief, but researchers are mystified. Maybe going to church and relying on God relieves believers of some of the stress of daily life and stress is well-known to be a reason for major illnesses.

Another strange place is Owoda on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. It is just a village of less than 2,000 residents but it has far more than the average number of 100 year olds than elsewhere. What is even stranger is that there are as many old men as old women which is not the norm anywhere else in the world.

The well-known Mediterranean diet and the pleasant climate are considered to be factors at play here, but it may also have something to do with their genes. The inhabitants were virtually isolated for hundreds of years and marriage among relatives was not uncommon. Usually this is not recommended because it can cause abnormalities. It looks like the abnormality that inter-marriage caused for the Owodans is longevity.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with the cause of macular degeneration. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Macular Degenerative Disease

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Are Women Good Candidates For Hair Transplant Surgery?

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

People associate balding with men and that is not surprising as most western men do go bald sooner or later. Most men actually hate going bald. Some take to brushing their hair in a different way, having it cut short or even shaved off altogether or they wear a hat. Increasingly, men are seeing balding as a natural process over which they have no control and just get on with their lives. This is a step in the correct direction.

However, women go bald as well, or at least it is possible that they can do. Traditionally western women care more about their looks than their men folk do and so women can take it very badly when or if they start losing their hair. Some women take to wearing a wig and others attempt a hair transplant.

The difficulty is that men and women lose their hair for different reasons and hair transplants favour the causes of men’s baldness rather than women’s.

Typical male baldness is known as ‘male pattern baldness’ and everybody knows men whom it has affected. It means that men lose hair first at the front, a receding hairline, and then on the top; leaving a band of hair running about three sides of the head. The three lower sides actually have healthy, growing, self-replicating follicles.

It is this hair that is used if a man goes for a hair transplant – healthy hair and it has to do with testosterone, the male hormone, as oestrogen is the female hormone.

Female baldness tends to affect the whole of the head at the same time, which means that there is not a crop of healthy hair follicles from which to transplant hair to other regions of the head. This makes most women inappropriate clients for a hair transplant.

Luckily for women up to about retirement age, baldness merely affects a small percentage of them unless it is through illness or the treatment of an illness. On the other hand, just about 5% of women are decent candidates for a hair transplant. Women who have lost their hair due to using rollers for a long period of time, usually have a couple of patches of good hair left that can be utilized for transplanting.

Other women who have a good chance of a successful hair transplant are those who have a kind of male pattern baldness and those who have lost hair due to damage surrounding areas of surgery. Those who have lost their hair due to chemotherapy, will often make a full or near full recovery when the chemo sessions are complete.

The easiest alternative for older women is to wear a wig. It is not ideal, obviously, but it does restore some confidence to those who could not otherwise go out without hair. Other choices are hats, scarves and turbans, jus like many women wore in the Twenties and Thirties.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on quite a few subjects, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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Sight Improvement

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

We are under great pressure not to look old, not to look our age. One of the best compliments people of more than 21 years think that they can receive is: ‘Really? You do not look it!’ To a certain extent this obsession with a youthful appearance has always been with us, but the pressure has ratcheted up due to films and television.

Film stars and pharmaceutical companies ruthlessly team up to persuade us that we have to have this surgery too in order to become popular. What they do not tell you is that the pharmaceutical firms have paid the film stars to have free treatment and then paid (or sponsored) the chat shows that so blatantly promote them.

And ageism is rife as well, both among the young, whose worst insults usually have the word ‘old’ included and among employers who can not wait to be rid of employees at 65 after a lifetime of service. Governments or at least some governments are exactly as bad, penalizing pensioners with a meager salary after fifty years of paying taxes.

Individuals used to grow old gracefully, now it is a sin. There is a long list of ‘improvements’ that you can work your way through: face lift, liposuction, hair transplants, dentures and several others, but the one that actually makes sense to me is eyesight improvement by whatever technique works.

We live in a beautiful world and it is a shame that whilst we are at the correct stage in our life to enjoy it – that is while we have more time, more money and have become more philosophical, we begin to go blind. At the same time as your grandchildren begin arriving, your eyesight begins to go.

There are numerous factors why you could begin losing your eyesight besides only old age, but old age does play a part in some of them as well.

Macular degeneration is usually known as age-related macular degeneration, but there is a rare kind that affects the young. There are two types wet and dry. The dry form is less severe, but the wet kind is more easily treated.

Cataracts are thought to be age-related as well, but I had premature senile cataracts 20 years early. Fortunately these are easily treated as well with only a couple of minutes of surgery. Glaucoma is a vicious one, which can leave you totally blind, if you do not catch it soon enough and have it treated.

The key to success with all of these sight impairments is tackling them early. If you suspect that anything is not right with your eyes, go to a doctor or optician immediately. Do not be fooled by sham remedies that you might see advertised on late night TV or in the small ads. They ought to be banned.

Eye exercises and eye drops are fine for healthy eyes, but they will not help you if you have a problem, only a fully qualified expert can do that. These advertisers prey on individuals who either do not have the money for surgery or who are frightened of it and there are lots of them around too.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a variety of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration glasses. If you want to know more, please go to our website at Macular Degenerative Disease

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Did You Say Ovarian Cancer?

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Ovarian cancer that accounts for over 25,000 newly diagnosed cases of cancer every year only in the United States Of America is by and large detected in the later stages once it has already spread outside the ovaries. Ovarian cancer or a group of malignant tumors begin in tissues of different sorts in the ovary.

Most cancers of the ovary begin in the epithelial or outer layer of cells, with rarer types starting in the egg forming germ cells or the stroma in the ovaries. However it is incorrect to assume that all tumors and cysts could become cancerous, for non-cancerous or benign tumors are more frequent than cancer of the ovary.

Cancer of the ovary or ovarian cancer is the 7th most common cancer among women in America; with only one out of five cases diagnosed in the early stage when effectual treatment can be implemented. However most women might like to know the risk factors for ovarian cancer and take care to go in for early diagnosis.

It is a good idea to realize that risk does not mean a certainty, it just indicates an increased likelihood to develop this sort of cancer.

They say that a confirmed family history of cancer of the breasts, uterus, colon and rectum could expose a woman to cancer of the ovaries as well. A family history might include one’s blood relations like grandmother, mother, daughter or sister, with a family history of cancer at a young age contributing to a higher likelihood for ovarian cancer. A genetic counselor could suggest genetic tests for you, certain genetic alterations indicating an increased risk for cancer of the ovaries.

It is important to note that each woman that has a personal history of cancer and has been already afflicted with cancer of the breast, uterus, colon or rectum stands a higher likelihood to get ovarian cancer.

It is to be observed that cancer has the tendency to spread rapidly and chemotherapy and radiation can only treat or remove cancer for some time. In addition to the growth of new cells there is every opportunity for it to spread to other organs of the body also.

It is the case that women that have attained menopause and older women that have never had babies have a higher chance to develop cancer of the ovaries. Postmenopausal use of hormones like hormone replacement therapy for a period of 10 years and more could rise the likelihood of getting ovarian cancer, with estrogen replacement therapy or ERT having the highest danger followed by estrogen-progestin replacement therapy or EPRT. It is also true that obesity and use of talcum powder also create a higher risk factor.

The indications of ovarian cancer after it develops to some extent could be pressure with or without pain and bloating experienced in the abdomen, pelvis, back and legs, feeling of nausea with indigestion, flatulence, constipation or diarrhea and a feeling of tiredness most of the time. In rare instances you could experience shortness of breath, the frequent urge to urinate and heavy periods after stoppage of periods.

However it can be hard to diagnose ovarian cancer and the only one who can do it properly is a doctor.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on quite a few topics, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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Throat Cancer Does Not Really Exist – But You Have To Be Cautious.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Really there is no such medical illness known as ?throat cancer?, although several sorts of cancer can arise in the throat and neck. The proper medical term for the throat is the ?pharynx?, which can be defined as: ‘the passage that ensures that food and drink go to the stomach and air to and from the lungs’.

The pharynx is made up of three parts: the oropharynx (the back of the mouth, including the soft palate and back of the tongue); nasopharynx (connecting the back of the nose to the back of the mouth); laryngopharynx (connecting the oropharynx and nasopharynx to the start of the gullet (oesophagus) and the windpipe (trachea) via the voice box (larynx)).

The laryngopharynx is occasionally called the hypopharynx. ?Throat cancer? can be cancer of any of these, although the most common form of ?throat cancer? is nasopharyngeal cancer.

Just to render the term ?throat cancer? even more inadequate and puzzling, some people apply it to cancer of the thyroid gland (situated at the front of the base of the neck), cancer of the voice box (larynx), cancer of the gullet or cancer of the windpipe (trachea), which actually comes into the lung cancer group.

Most head and neck cancerous cells are squamous, which is to say that they do not travel far from their origin, although they often have an impact on the lymph nodes. In fact, the first symptom of head or throat cancer is frequently an enlarged neck lymph node, which is also occasionally called throat cancer.

A different sign could be the appearance of white areas or spots in the mouth that will not respond to medication. Known as leukoplakia, 33% of them become cancerous. It is estimated that 7,000 Americans die of a throat cancer each year, often because it was detected late. Ethnicity might also play a part, since African American men are 50% more at risk of throat cancer than Caucasian men.

These cancers are relatively painless in early stages and can be confused with toothache, earache, sore throat or croakiness. Once established however, they develop very quickly, although if caught at an early stage, they can almost always be successfully removed.

There is a wide variety of reasons why someone can be at a greater risk for a throat cancer, including smoking; chewing tobacco and other things, such as betel nut, gutkha, marijuana or pan; heavy alcohol consumption; poor diet resulting in vitamin deficiencies (worse if this is caused by heavy alcohol intake); weakened immune system; asbestos exposure; prolonged exposure to wood dust or paint fumes; exposure to petroleum, industrial chemicals, and being more than the age of 55 years.

The existence of acid reflux disease (gastroesphogeal reflux disease – GERD) or larynx reflux disease can also be a major factor. In the case of acid reflux disease, stomach acids flow up into the oesophagus and injure its lining, making it more liable to throat cancer.

Because successful treatment depends on early detection, routine oral examination is suggested. Your dentist will have been trained to be on the look out for early symptoms, making a bi-annual visit to the dentist even more worthwhile

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on quite a few subjects, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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Melanoma: Skin Cancer By A Different Name

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Melanoma is the most common form of skin cancer and skin cancer is the most widespread kind of cancer in the Western world. It starts in skin cells called melanocytes.

Melanocytes are found under the skin, which is made up of two strata: the epidermis on the outside and the dermis below that. To be precise, melanocytes are situated in the lowest levels of the epidermis, but not really in the dermis.

These cells produce melanin, which has an effect on the epidermis? pigmentation, both natural skin colour and because of exposure to the sun as in tanning.

Sometimes, a group of near-by melanocytes combine with a little local tissue to form a mole (also called a nevus; plural nevi). The average person has between ten and forty moles, which normally seem before the fortieth birthday. They frequently fade or disappear with age.

Moles are non-malignant (non-cancerous) and can be flat or raised in shape and almost any colour. Usually, they are a little darker than one?s natural skin colour. Dark skinned individuals tend to have more moles.

Cancer begins in cells where the regular cycle of decay and replacement by regeneration has been disrupted. Under these conditions, cells do not always die when they should and new cells are produced unnecessarily.

This, in turn, creates a growth (also known as a tumor), which can be either benign or malignant (that is to say cancerous or non-cancerous).

Benign tumors can be surgically removed and hardly ever come back. They do not spread or affect adjacent tissue.

Malignant tumors are cancerous and can affect surrounding tissue and organs. In these cases, cancerous cells can break away from the primary tumor and have an impact on other organs or enter the blood stream (lymphatic system), wherein it can spread to other regions of the body (metastasis) very quickly. The rate of metastasis is a deciding factor in how a physician deals with cancer.

Melanoma happens when melanocytes become malignant. It can happen at any age, but the likelihood rise with age. Fair-skinned people are more probable to develop it than dark-skinned individuals. In fair-skinned races, men tend to get it on the upper body and neck, whereas women get it on their calves (lower legs).

Dark-skinned people hardly ever suffer from melanoma, but if they do, it is usually under the finger and toe nails or on the soles of the feet or palms of the hands. When cancerous cells from melanoma enter the lymphatic system and affect other organs, it is still attributed to melanoma. For instance, if the liver becomes affected by cancerous cells from melanoma, it is referred to as metastatic melanoma, not liver cancer.

Frequently, the first sign of melanoma is a change in the size, shape, colour, or texture of an current mole, although it often first manifests itself with a new mole or moles. Self-diagnosis is not to be relied on – always seek professional advice if you have any concerns relating to your skin. However, it is wise to remember ?The ABCD of Melanoma?, which goes like this:

Asymmetry: the shape of one side of the mole is not the same as the other side.

Border: the border or edges of the mole are not plainly defined; a bit tattered or the colouration ?leaks? into the surrounding skin.

Colouration: the mole is not uniformly of one colour, although it is not so vital what that colour is.

Diameter: there is a modification in size or a new mole gets larger than 5mm in size.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on quite a few subjects, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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A Brief Outline Of Birth Control And Cervical Cancer

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Birth control is a large issue, there is no doubt of that and women are more aware than ever that having children is not a necessary result of having sex. They are also conscious that having children at the wrong time can ruin their careers and they are also aware that passions or alcohol get in the way of safe sex using condoms very frequently.

This results in women taking care of the vast majority of birth control by taking ‘the pill’. The contraceptive pill caused an uproar in the Sixties with the Establishment and the Churches predicting the downfall of society and morality. And after a fashion, they were correct. But what happened was to sweep away a great deal of social barriers and privileges that previously just the rich (and men) had enjoyed. The ‘old order’ lost a bit of ground.

The problem with the way that women took control of their sex lives was or is twofold: firstly, men leave ‘that type of thing’ to the woman and secondly, taking the pill can lead to cervical cancer. The chances of getting cervical cancer from taking the pill are small (15,000 Americans a year, of which a third dies), but they do exist.

However, there are no recorded cases of men developing cancer from using a condom.

Women normally get cervical cancer from having sex. They pick up the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Most of the time, the woman’s immune system will prevent that virus from causing cancer, but research has shown that women who take the pill for more than five years consecutively have a higher danger than women who have not.

So a condom would be useful here.

Unfortunately, there are no symptoms in the early stages of cervical cancer, but later on, there may be heavier losses of blood, pain after sexual intercourse and even unpleasant smells. Periods could also last a great deal longer than ‘normal’.

The difficulty with studies is that, there frequently comes another study to prove something else and this is the case here too. Some studies have shown that the use of the contraceptive pill reduces the incidence of ovarian cancer.

It is like old sayings, there is always a opposite, as in: ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’ and ‘Familiarity breeds contempt’.

If you listen to the ‘experts’, you would be in a lasting state of dilemma. Therefore, the only really safe course to take is to go for regular tests or screenings – at least once a year, unless your doctor or gynecologist tells you different and if he or she does, query it.

The pharmaceutical businesses have been promising a male contraceptive pill or implant for decades. In fact, the pill might even be there. But that is not the reason normally. The problem is usually men. The majority of men cannot be relied upon to provide adequate contraception when they are involved in casual relationships.

As long as this state of affairs continues, women will continue to take risks so that they are not bogged down by a family of 10 kids like their great-grandmothers were.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of subjects, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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Eye Care After A Lasik Operation

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

The patient of Lasik surgery has two foremost responsibilities regarding his or her eyes: firstly to pick a responsible, skilled surgeon, which should not be very difficult and secondly, to take care of his eyes after the operation by following the guidance of the surgeon on post-operative care. This second part is very important and should not be taken lightly.

The post-operative supervision process is not a problem, but if you are worried about it, you could ask your surgeon what it will entail before the procedure. The medical doctor or a nurse will be able to explain the procedure of care to you in detail or they will give you a brochure.

There might be some peculiar sight aberrations for a few days after the operation, some of which are fairly standard. One of the most common aberrations that are standard for a few days are halos around lights.

However, you should be certain that you understand the difference between what is standard and so no grounds for concern and what should be reported immediately

There are various Lasik procedures and the procedures are advancing all the time so it is not possible to give precise details in this piece. Moreover, the shape of the eyes and the reasons for deteriorating eyesight are individual to every patient.

Some of the advice that your Lasik surgeon might give for your post-operative eye care may include the following, although different doctors might have their own advice.

The first thing is to remember that you have just had an operation including anaesthetic. There might not have been any blood but it was surgery all the same.

All patients are desired to take it easy after an operation and you will be no exception. If you had had an operation on your knee, you would use it as little as possible for a time and the same is helpful advice for your eye.

Attempt to sleep for a couple of hours after the operation or at least close your eyes and rest. Infection is the chief anxiety, so do not poke or rub your eye and do not strain it by trying out your recently improved eyesight by reading or watching TV.

If you have to entertain yourself in this manner wear an eye patch. Your surgeon will almost certainly have given you a hard plastic eye guard, which you should wear at all times.

Some surgeons will advise against getting water into your eye for a few days, which means washing just from the neck down, no showering, no going out in the rain and definitely no swimming.

Be careful with bright light, it cannot damage your eye but it does hurt. Your world will get much brighter after the operation and looking at a light bulb can be painful. Be cautious of watching moving traffic whilst the sun is shining, a car window can catch the sun and reflect it back into your eye all of a sudden.

You will be given eye drops so do not fail to use them. Lasik surgery can dry your eyes out, if this happens they might be able to give you alternative or supplemental drops.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with wet macular degeneration treatment. If you want to know more, please go to our site at Macular Degenerative Disease

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