Our Amazing Human Body... The Eyes

    

Everyday we encounter with strangers and look at them without knowing what is going through their heads, but if we stop for a moment and look closely to their eyes you can know what someone is feeling.

The eyes are the organ that allow us to see what and who surrounds us, they allow to see amazing colours and figures. They are located on our heads above the nose and their size is about 24 mm in diameter. They have different colours, my favourites being blue and brown.

Blue Eyes

Brown Eyes

Many things can alter the normal function of the eyes. We normally loose our sight in accidents by hurting them with pointy things, when dust or dangerous liquids come in contact with them. 

Cataract

But also some diseases can affect our sight, some can be less aggressive than others. Myopia, this occurs when the eyeball is too long which doesn't allow us to see clearly things that are far from us. Astigmatism is when the eyeball has troubles focusing at any distance. Cataract which decreases vision by clouding you sight, Glaucoma results in damage to the optic nerve and vision loss.

Glaucoma on the right eye

Some diseases affect the eye indirectly, like the Bell's Palsy condition, this causes paralysis on one side of the face, as this affect blinking it can cause several dry eye. Diabetes, and Hypertension, this diseases affect  the entire body.

The usual recommendations to keep our eyes healthy are not touching them  with our hands dirty, not forcing them to focus on close or far objects for too long, not eating junk food in excess because the accumulation of sugar and body fat can carry on to diseases that kill certain organs including the eyeballs.

The eyes allow us to see such amazing things, let's take care of them or we will pay an enormous price.