If you want to treat your eyes better, please sleep well!

Sleep is an essential part of our lives, and sleep quality is closely related to human health. Many young people stay up late playing with their mobile phones while worrying about becoming bald babies, and staying up late seems to have become a common problem of urbanites.

Recently, the China Sleep Research Association released the "2025 China Sleep Health Survey Report". This is our country's first objective, scientific and authoritative sleep data report. The report pointed out that sleep problems include going to the toilet at night, waking up easily or early at night, and difficulty falling asleep. The results showed that the sleep disturbance rate of people aged 18 and above in China was 48.5%.

Many people know that long-term lack of sleep and staying up late may lead to dark circles, memory loss, mood swings, disrupt the balance of the body's immune system, disrupt secretory function, and create conditions for the occurrence and deterioration of neurological, cardiovascular, metabolic and other types of diseases. Not only that, but lack of sleep also affects our eye health. Let's take stock of the related diseases that may occur.

Dry eyes

Friends who often stay up late or have poor sleep quality are one of the high-incidence groups of dry eyes. Staying up late is easy to tire the eyes, and many people love to stay up late to play with mobile phones and computers, which is even more harmful to the eyes, and it is easy to have adverse symptoms such as dry eyes, tearing, photophobia, and foreign body sensation.

Even if there is dry eye syndrome, good sleep will give the eye surface a chance to recover, so that dry eye syndrome can be compensated for repair. Therefore, staying up less late and sleeping more is also a good habit to protect your eyes and love your eyes

Medium pulp

The official name of "mesoplasm" is central serous chorioretinopathy, which is a disease characterized by local superficial detachment of the serous retina of the macula (formation of subretinal effusion). When staying up late and stressed, the human body activates an emergency response, and the sympathetic system becomes excited, resulting in intraocular choroidal vasodilation and increased blood flow.

Ouyang Zhenglong of the Department of Fundus Trauma at Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital said that medium pulp is more common in people aged 20 to 50, and male incidence is more common. If the patient suddenly has a mild decrease in monocular vision, darkening or yellowing of vision, distorted or distorted vision, and a relatively dark area in the center, migraine-like headaches may occur before the vision changes. The prognosis of the disease is good, but it may still recur, and may develop into chronic, or even irreversible visual impairment.

Retinal vascular disease

Staying up late and using electronic products for a long time can easily lead to eye vasospasm and hemodynamic abnormalities. Urbanites are sedentary, mentally stressed, and have increased blood viscosity, which can easily induce retinal vein occlusion. Staying up late, nervousness, and mood swings can easily lead to vasospasm, causing transient vision loss, and inducing retinal artery vascular occlusion.

Dr. Ouyang Zhenglong reminds:

1. Retinal artery occlusion is a serious eye disease with acute vision loss, if the retinal blood supply is insufficient, the neurons of the retina will soon die, these neurons cannot regenerate, the eye may be blind, and the treatment time is only 90 minutes.

2. Retinal vein occlusion is roughly divided into central venous occlusion and branch vein occlusion, no matter which cause it, it may cause different degrees of bleeding, and even the risk of inducing serious eye diseases such as glaucoma.

3. The symptoms of retinal arterial/venous ischemia are sudden painless vision loss and visual field defects. Be sure to pay attention to it and go to a regular hospital for examination and medical treatment.

High myopia-related fundus lesions

It is not difficult to find that many times we stay up late to play with mobile phones, and even some friends are lying down to smear and play with mobile phones, constantly changing light and shadow to cause continuous irritation to the eyes, often very difficult to use the eyes, ciliary muscle continues to be tense, may accelerate the growth of the eye axis, cause myopia to deepen, and even develop into high myopia, inducing a greater risk of fundus lesions associated with high myopia.

Dr. Ouyang Zhenglong reminded: High myopia (≥ 600 degrees) is more fragile than ordinary people due to the long axis of the eye, the retina is thinner, and the condition of the fundus is more fragile than that of ordinary people, and there are high complications in itself, such as inducing retinal tears, detachment, macular degeneration, retinal vascular disease, etc.

glaucoma

Staying up late for a long time can lead to excessive eye fatigue and increased intraocular pressure, which can lead to glaucoma, especially in people with abnormal eye structure (such as shallow anterior chamber and narrow atrial angle).

Many friends like to turn off the lights before going to bed and play with their mobile phones, and forget the time while playing, lack of sleep, the pupils will dilate, resulting in narrowing of the corners, hindering the outflow of aqueous humor, further increasing intraocular pressure, and may induce acute angle-closure glaucoma.

Accelerate the occurrence of hypertension, diabetes and other diseases

Staying up late for a long time will disrupt the body's normal metabolism, cause biological rhythm disorders, lead to blood sugar rises, fatigue reduces physical activity, reduces energy consumption, and further increases the risk of obesity, hypertension, and diabetes.

Chronic diseases of high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia not only pose a huge threat to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, but also cause serious damage to our eyes, such as diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive retinopathy, and hyperlipidemia macular degeneration.

In addition to doing a good job in body management, stabilizing blood sugar and blood pressure, maintaining a normal weight, not staying up late, and ensuring adequate rest, it is also necessary to regularly go to professional medical institutions to check the fundus of the eye, so as to achieve early screening, early detection and early treatment, and don't let vision thieves steal your clear life.