tips on caring for the eyes

Eye Care Tips

• Take A vitamin diet to make eyes brighter. (papaya, eggs, fish, milk, cilantro etc.,)
  Wash eyes with cold water to get sparkling eyes.

• Put sliced cucumber over your eyes to treat dark circles.

• Put potato slices on your eye to get rid off those dark circles.

• Soak amla overnight in water and use this water the next morning to wash the eyes.

• Soak cotton in Luke warm milk and cover eyes with it for 15 min.

• To soothe tired eyes, dip cotton pads in chilled milk and place on closed eyes for 10 minutes. Now relax completely

• To completely relax the eyes and the surrounding muscles, close your eyes and think of something that is pleasant or soothing and at a distance. Now gently open your eyes and look into the distance. Next focus on an object at arm's length. Do this extremely relaxing exercise four or five times a day.

• If your eye twitches, or your eyes are red and feeling itchy, massage your scalp with curd.

• Soak 1 tsp. dry amla in one cup of water overnight. Next morning strain it through a muslin cloth and then add one extra cup of water. Splash your eyes with this solution each morning. This makes your eyes sparkle.

• For Puffy Eyes: Grate a potato with its peel and apply on your closed eyelids for about 20 minutes and relax completely. You may even take a nap.
  
• Wash your face before sleeping, and ensure that there is no make-up on your face before you sleep, because, make-up creams may spoil your face as it will be there for the whole night. It is better if no cream is applied. What I feel is, wash your face before sleeping and if at all you want to apply any cream, just apply night cream and none other than that.

Benefits of healthy eating for the Body

Benefits of healthy eating A healthy diet will definitely bring about some results that you will see pretty quickly. For instance, healthy eating will help you:

• Control your body weight so that you are neither overweight nor underweight
• Have extra energy to get a kick out of all sorts of exciting physical activities, such as tennis, baseball, surging or dancing
• To reach your full physical potential, be able to support your body while you are growing and developing.
• A good balanced diet affects your mood.
  It will ensure that you get all the nutrients necessary for your brain to function well.

A healthy diet will also help you avoid diet-related diseases that usually people develop when they cross 40, such as:

• Adult-onset diabetes (most common type of diabetes)
• Heart trouble
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Osteoporosis (thinning of bones).
• Some cancers
• Strokes (brain damage as a result of blood supply problems)

By healthy eating now you will be able to reduce the chances of developing these diseases later in life. The risk of developing certain cancers will also be decreased by eating fruits and vegetables and cereals, since they contain anti-oxidants and fiber.

Some healthy eating tips

• Include a wide variety of nutritious foods from various food groups
• Have plenty of vegetables, fruits and legumes
• Have lots of cereals (this includes breads, rice, pasta and noodles), preferably wholegrain
• Include lean meat, fish, poultry and/or alternatives in your diet
• Incorporate milks, yoghurts, cheeses and/or alternatives. Chose low fat varieties, as far as possible
• Have plenty of water.

Take care to:

• Limit your intake of saturated fat and moderate total fat intake
• Always choose foods that are low in salt
• If you drink, limit your alcohol intake
• Have only moderate amounts of sugars and foods containing added sugars.
• Include spices and herbs in your diet as they are rich in phytochemicals which have an antioxidant effect.

• Avert weight gain: Remain physically active and eat according to your energy needs.

• Take care of your food: Prepare and store it safely.

Good Wound Care Tips

 Sores on the skin should not be ignored, because in addition can cause scars, but also the danger of attack. Here are some tips for treating wounds in the skin to avoid infection:
Clean the wounds of all kinds of dirt and torn skin. If the wound is dirty clean them with soft soap and rinse with running water. After antisepsis bubuhi clean or at least 70 percent alcohol (not 96 percent), then cover with a bandage. Not too tight, give a gap so air can still flow memapari wounds.
Which is closed tightly wound will slow the formation of new skin tissue, and slow drying wounds, so that the wound was never pulih.Selain threatened injured body part contaminated tetanus infection in the wound.

If after some time the wound was still wet and looks yellow liquid, the possibility of infected wounds. Should not be closed, nor given an ointment or cream, but compressed rivanol (can be freely bought in pharmacies) for several days. New antibiotic ointment or cream shall be affixed if the wound is completely dry. Wet wound ointment or cream would be difficult to heal. So also wound is dry, should not be compressed.
Tips To Not Caring Wound Infection
The wound was closed with wound dressings should also be deperhatikan cleanliness. Wound dressings should be replaced after a bath and come back again spiked with antisepsis drug. Keep the wound is not exposed to water or other substances that can provoke the onset of infection.
Note: If the injury is sufficiently large and severe, immediately treated in the doctor because it may require stitches and a serious handling