Am Eye Right?

Salam and hola beautiful people!

So, today on another health topic is contact lens. I supposed many of you wear contact lenses. Whether, they are the transparent ones or the coloured ones. As we all know,

"eyes are the window to the soul." 

Of course we all wanted big pretty eyes. But today, I will focus more on the 'taking care part'. Because some of us might just slip through the thought of taking care of our contact lens.

People wear contact lens for only two reasons. One, they could be wearing lens because they are tired/hate wearing glasses. Two, for beauty purposes. Could also be both. But for whatever reason, we are glad that they are here:)

Firstly, I would advise all of you to get your contact lens from the certified store. You have to remember these are your eyes we're talking about. You only have a pair of them. SO, please love them. I heard many cases on how people wear fake contact lenses and this happened to them.

Eerie right?

Tips:

Before wearing them

1. Make sure that your lens are not expired. If the lens are build for a month use, do not exceed the time of usage.
2. Always make sure that your hands are clean and dry before you handle your lens. Water can contaminate your lens because water do also consist bacteria that may not be visible by the naked eyes.
3. Remember to always rinse of your lens with saline solution and not tap water.
4. Be sure that your lens are on the right position. Wearing them wrongly can cause eye irritation and can be dangerous to the eyes. They could slide to the back of your eyes so please be careful.
   

The right side of the lens should be round and no sharp ends but for the wrong side, the side should appear sharper. 

When wearing:

1. Remember that you are wearing lens. Do not rub your eyes. The lens might come out from your eyes. Yikes! Wouldn't that ruin a date.
2. If your eyes got dry, you can use the eye dropper to moisture your eyes and your contact lenses. But, they do have a specialized one for the lens. 
3. Remember to always bring a small solution and lens casing with you every time that you are travelling. We might not know if any emergency will happen at that time.
   
4. Do not use the tap water nor your saliva to clean the lens if any emergency happens.
5. Remove lens before swimming, entering a hot tube or before playing with nearby fire. 

After wearing:

1. Clean your hands. Be sure that you clean your hands with soap. Dry your hands and drop some of the saline water to the fingers that you used to take out your lens.
2. Remove your lens slowly and clean them with the saline solution. Be sure to use straight motion and not in circular motion. The circulation could tear your lens. Especially those who wear soft contact lens.
3. Store your lens in the proper lens casing. Remember to change the lens casing every three (3) months.
4. Leave them for at least 6 hours or overnight! Get some beauty sleep.
5. If you wear your lens occasionally, remember to change your lens solution at least once in two days. Everyday is better. The longer the lens soaked in the multipurpose solution, the faster the lens can contaminate. Or better, use daily contact lens so you can just throw away after using them. 
6. Do not share your lens.
7. Do not sleep with your lens!
8. Remember to get eye check up once in a while 

From: http://www.1800contacts.com/

The most common infection related to contact lenses is keratitis which is an infection at cornea.

Bacterial Keratitis

Symptoms of contact lens-related infections 

 -blurry vision

-unusual redness of the eye

-pain in the eye

-tearing or discharge from the eye

-increased light sensitivity or the sensation of something in your eye

Remember to love your eyes!

STAY HEALTHY

With love,

Azera

Management of Migraine

Have you ever felt that one sided pain on your head that makes you feel like you want to bang your head on the wall? Yes people. I felt that too and it is so painful *cries* TT.TT

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MIGRAINE FACTS:

1. More than 2/3 migraine sufferers either has never consulted a doctor of have stopped doing so

2. Migraine is underdiagnosed and undertreated.

3. Approximately 26 million patients with migraine in U.S.

4. It is an extremely debilitating collection of neurological symptoms.

1 out of 4 household 

has at least 1 migraine sufferer. Mostly affected are actually women 

between 25-55 age range.

So, how do you know differentiate between a normal headache and migraine?

You will feel one sided pain and somehow the pain can subside to a greater portion on your head. 

It is like your head is somehow contracting and your eyes were about to pop out. You hate that the room is too bright or the music is too loud. You feel like you want to vomit. It can really bug you sometimes especially when you are running some of your important errands.

There are many theories on how migraine can happen.

 One of it is that we are lacking with this one happy hormones called serotonin. 

Next is, the blood vessels in our brains are actually dilating which means our blood vessels are getting larger in terms of circumference but to an extent where the blood vessels get really huge so don't worry. Hehe. 

There are two type of migraine. 

Migraine without aura(common migraine) or migraine with aura (classic migraine)

Both of them are different. Migraine with aura is best classified by the presence of visual aura which is called scintillating scotoma.

Scintillating Migraine Cat

This is a drawing that explains the scintillating visual by those people who suffers migraine with aura.

This is what they actually see

So, what does trigger migraine?

There are many triggering factor when it comes to having migraine.

 So which one is actually mine?

Hormonal imbalance ladies! Hah, one of our best reasons to not be ourselves like alllll thhheee timeee. I usually have my migraine before I get my period. Like a monthly routine LOL. 

My 2nd triggering factor would be the hot sun. If I am living my days at home I rarely go out but once I do, the hot blazing sun will be like 'Hey, let me give you migraine' -.-" What about yours?

Well, it is advisable for us to have a journal to write the time and date of the attack and try our best to remember what we do that day that we think that can be a triggering factor. This is because all of us have different triggering factors.

How to treat migraine?

Sadly to say so, there is no permanent treatment when it comes to migraine. We can only minimize the frequent and severity of attack . 

1. Try to know the triggering factor and try to avoid them.

2. Do meditation and relaxation training

3. Psychotherapy

4. Acupuncture

5. Alternative medicine *click the link below*

AVOID EATING THIS FOOD WHEN MIGRAINE HAPPENS:

1. Milk

2. Chocolate

3. Cheese

4. Citrus fruits

5. Red Wine

It is advisable to not eat any medication when the attack happens. Even though we sell medication for a living but I wanted all of you to know that the lecturers are teaching us on more of patient-based and not product-based where the patient comes first.

If you can't really deal with the pain, just eat the medication that is prescribed to you.

If the attack happens very frequently like there will be one attack each day in a month, please go and make an appointment with the doctors as they can help to prescribe you with a different treatment because the normal treatment is no longer effective for you. 

Be sure to eat and stay healthy.

P.s: I'll be away for my Final Exams. Wish me LUCK!

Toodles!

REFERENCES:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/migraine-headache/basics/definition/con-20026358

FUN QUIZ!

SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL QUIZ TONIGHT!

Hello guys. I would like to warn you that this is just a game and just have fun. 

Don't pressure yourself too muchh :P

The rules

1. Do not scroll down until you finished answering each of my questions

2. I will tell you a word and you must think of a word that describes the word that I just told you. For example, apple = red/sweet/tree or anythinggg.

3. The word must be the first word that pops in your head.

4. No cheating! 

5. There are 6 questions 

6. In case you are bad at remembering, have a pen and a piece of paper

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Just kidding ;)

1. The 'DOG' symbolizes on how you see yourself. 

My answer was 'woof' which may indicate that I am a very loud person.

2. The 'RAT' symbolizes on how you see your enemy. 

My answer was 'white' which may indicate that I see my enemy is someone who are kind to me but they will somehow cross me.

3. The 'CAR' symbolizes your taste. 

Mine was 'red' which may indicate I like stuff that are different and pop out

4. The 'CAT' symbolizes your lover. 

My answer was 'kitten' which may indicate that my lover will be like a kid. LOL

5. The 'COFFEE' symbolizes your sex. 

My answer was fit' which was my friends nickname because I remember that she loves coffee so much. So, I don't know what it means. LOL. INVALID

6. The 'OCEAN' symbolizes your future. 

My answer was 'lovely'. So, my future is lovelyy:)

The way you interpret the data was all yours because you know yourself better than anyone, right?

But that is how I interpret mine.   

Hope you had fun :P

A BIG THANKS TO DR MAHATHIR FOR INTRODUCING ME THIS GAME!

A lecturer from UKM 

He teaches psychology.