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While we can’t live without the sun, our eyes can’t survive too much exposure on it. Our eyes are one of the most sensitive parts of our body and diverse environmental factors could cause it not to perform well, or even destroy it.

There are many ways to protect one’s eyes from the harmful rays of the sun. One of which is wearing sunglasses. Sunglasses are not only for fashion. There is a much higher purpose of it which is to protect our eyes. Since the sun releases out a lot of ultraviolet rays, there is much danger for our eyes getting defunct or having ocular problems.

Some of the short-term and long-term ocular problems caused by excessive eye exposure to the sun are: Continue reading →