Just like other organs
of the body, your eyes need protection and at times treatment
too.there are two eye doctors, optometrist and ophthalmologist. While
an optometrist is concerned with vision and eyesight, an
ophthalmologist deals with diseases and ailments of the eye and
performs eye surgeries.
Interviews with a lot
of ophthalmologists show that on an average an ophthalmologist see
200 patients in a week out of which about 50 are surgery encounters.
They feel that the challenging part is the minor complications which
require a lot of physical examinations. There are around 18,000
ophthalmologists in the country and about fifty of them practice in
Noida. This number is very low and it is one of the main reasons as
to why India homes the largest number of blind people. About 85% of
the rural areas don't even have an eye care cell, let alone an
ophthalmologist. This could be due to the less number of schools
providing an education in eye care or the high cut throat competition
in which only the top 5% candidates become an ophthalmologist.
Talking about the norms
like eating carrot or drinking its juice and eating spinach,
ophthalmologists believe that while no food helps in improving
vision, carrots or other Vitamin A food can improve only if poor
vision was caused due to deficiency of Vitamin A which is rare in
urban areas. Here, the prominent reason is eye strain and genetic
factors.
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