European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

HOLISTIC APPROACH TO OCULAR HEALTH IN ERA OF COVID19

Prof. Dr. Gunjan Sharma, *Dr. Arun Kumar and Dr. Archana Gairola

ABSTRACT

Novel coronavirus was declared as a pandemic by WHO in March 2020. Since then many countries have been under the state of lockdown and stay at home, work from home orders have been released throughout to protect human race. During this time of quarantine and isolation, we are all trying save ourselves from the contagious virus but rise in mental and physical health issues due to staying indoors have become a matter of concern for health authorities. In between these situations there is one more worrisome issue that most of us might be ignoring that is the deteriorating ocular health. Computers, laptops, cell phones and television have overcome every other activities of our day to day life in present circumstances. While working or relaxing we are spending most of our times in front of these visual display terminals (VDT) creating burden over our eyes and becoming victim of an ocular condition called Computer Vision Syndrome associated with symptoms like eye strain, headache, blurred vision, dry eyes, and neck and shoulder pain. Apart from cutting the glare and giving rest to the eyes treatment modalities encompass measures such as using anti-glare glasses and artificial tear drops. While staying at home, we could prevent and improvement could be achieved in this condition through certain exercises and Trataka among yogic practices which has been discussed in this paper.

Keywords: Computer vision syndrome, Ocular health, Covid19, ocular exercises, Trataka yoga.