Complications after treating eye diseases with folk methods

Ophthalmologists recommend not treating eye diseases with folk remedies.

Recently, the Central Eye Hospital and Hanoi Eye Hospital have continued to receive many cases of severe complications after applying folk remedies to treat eye diseases. Many newborns with pink eye have complications after being treated by steaming with hot water boiled from betel leaves, or dropping breast milk or lemon juice into the children's eyes.

Ophthalmologists confirm that the above mentioned folk remedies have no scientific basis and can cause eye burns, increasing the risk of eye infections. When suffering from eye diseases, you should go to an ophthalmology clinic to be examined and prescribed specific medications.

When you have an eye disease, you need to go to an eye specialist to be examined and prescribed special medicine.

Currently, on social networks, there are more and more advertisements about methods to cure nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and amblyopia by massage, acupressure, acupuncture, and yoga for the eyes. Ophthalmologists say that yoga and tai chi are good for health, but visual rehabilitation needs to be based on scientific basis.

In fact, many children who were treated for myopia by massage, acupressure, and acupuncture suffered eye damage and became more nearsighted because they stopped wearing glasses and their eyes had to work harder.

Dr. Dang Xuan Nguyen, Director of Hanoi Eye Hospital 2, said: “All of these advertisements are disguises. Visual rehabilitation needs to be based on science and ophthalmological equipment as well as people who are properly trained to be able to treat each different disease.

But these programs treat everyone in the same way, treating all diseases, from nearsightedness to farsightedness. They may unintentionally ignore diseases that need to be examined and clearly diagnosed by ophthalmologists to have the appropriate treatment regimen.

According to VOV