Creative Blog of Eye care from Itek Vision

1. The effects that alcohol can have on our eyes

3. Short Term or Immediate Effects

4. Dry eyes
The most common of them all is dry
eyes. Alcohol is known for dehydrating
the body and just a couple of drinks
can lead you to have dry eyes that
mostly goes unnoticed.
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5. The decrease in the sensitivity to contrast
Our eyes have an excellent ability to distinguish
between the light and the dark. But, post-drinking,
this ability gets decreased a lot. This happens
mostly at night where you are not able to see
things clearly in the dark. Hence, you must
not drink and drive because of this one reason.

6. Decreased Pupil reaction
Because of the alcohol, the pupil of our eyes to get slowed down. Liquor
moderates the capacity of our irises need to contract and widen.
This becomes problematic when there are massive lighting
changes that happen rapidly out there.

7. Long Term Effects

8. More chances of getting cataract problems
The people who consume alcohol have a higher
risk of getting cataract. Alcohol increases the
chance of AMD or the age-related
muscular degeneration that results in cataracts.

9. More chances of AMD
As we said, alcohol increases the risk and the chances of AMD
in the individuals. With age, poor eyesight is a problem
for everyone. But, for people who drink, they can even tend to lose their
eyesight due to AMD or get extremely poor eyesight.

10. Prenatal Exposure
For pregnant ladies too, alcohol consumption is a problem.
If you are enough addicted to alcohol while you are pregnant
then the kid can have some issues like trouble with the
eye co-ordination, hanging eyelids, and also immature optic
nerve. This can all happen because of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

11. Vitamin Deficiency
Okay, so the clear connection goes
like this. If you consume enough
alcohol then you are cutting the vitamins
from your body. Deficiency of various vitamins can
causevarious issues like a deficiency of Vitamin A
causes thin cornea. And the absence of these
supplements can cause harm to the eyes,
corneal puncturing, and night visual deficiency.

12. Tobacco alcohol amblyopia
Optic neuropathy is a condition that is directly
connected with the vision misfortune. This
happens because of the extreme drinking
of liquor often or even regularly.