While some causes of blindness aren’t preventable as is the case with age-related eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration, cataract, and diabetic retinopathy, other factors may be preventable.
Indeed, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), disclosed that two-thirds of contact lens wearers are women. While for most women, menopause doesn’t become a concern until about age 51, for a select few, early onset menopause – better known as premature ovarian failure, can wreak havoc on your lifestyle, causing hot flashes, night sweats, sleep problems, pain during sex, urine or bowel leakage or worse, blindness.If you’ve made a habit of sleeping in your contact lenses, you need to think twice because sleeping in contacts according to experts is one of the major causes of infections, corneal ulcers, and other health problems that can cause blindness.It’s never too late to kick this nasty habit as the CDC, reports that smoking is the leading cause of vision loss. Tobacco users are twice as likely to develop macular degeneration which destroys the central vision that you need to read, drive, and see people’s faces when compared with a nonsmoker.Staring directly at the sun is one of the major causes of blindness. While it would take several minutes of gazing at the heart of our solar system for it to cause permanent impairment, enough damage (solar radiation) to the retina can harm the macula, a tiny substructure of the retina responsible for much of your central detail vision.
