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Like your heart and your brain, your eyes too are put to use from the moment your are born and continue to serve you until you die. Ignore eye care at your own peril.

Despite the vital function performed by the eyes in our life, most of us, especially teenagers, do not take good care of their eyes. Eye care for teens is not merely treating the eye in case of any disease. It means taking regular and proper care of the eye. Most teens tend to ignore that their eye needs, not caring for them unless they suffer from an eye ailment. And such an attitude can cause a lot of harm to the eye.

For example, it is an established fact that teenagers are at higher risk from ultra violent radiation of the sun. The size of the pupils of children and teenagers are bigger as compared to those of adults. Hence, their exposure to light is comparatively higher.

Further, as compared to adults, teens spend more time in the sun. And sunglasses, if worn and even if coated with UV block, do not provide adequate protection. Hence, eye care for teens must be given top priority.

Our eyes need to be coated with moisture so as to function properly. It is easy to compare our eyes and the need for a lubricant to coat the eye ball to that of a motor, where as a comparison a lubricant (usually oil) is needed so as to ensure the moving parts work properly. As we know if a motor was required to perform without the parts being well lubricated it would only take a short time before the non-lubricated moving parts would suffer from abrasions. In situations where our eyes do not have enough lubricant the condition is known as ‘Dry Eye’.

Dry eye, or dry eye syndrome as it is often known, is a medical condition that occurs when the sufferer’s eyes lack the correct formation of lubricant. Usually the lubricant is in the form of tears and dry eye is as a result of the body not producing sufficient quantities of tears to oil the eyes and make them relaxed. This condition is more prevalent amongst older people. In America alone around 30 to 40 million people suffer from dry eye syndrome. About three quarters of sufferers have fairly mild cases, however many of the remaining 10 million or so sufferers experience extremely serious cases of the affliction.