Eyestrain symptoms can be a headache or itchy or tired eyes. These symptoms never are felt when you awake in the morning, but occur during the day when you read too much, focus on the computer or on small objects where the eyes have to strain to focus.


Steps

1. Relax your eye muscles by shutting your eyes and relaxing for a little time.
2. Roll or blink your eyes, close them tightly for a few seconds.
3. Change your focus every 15-30 minutes. Look in another direction, or across the street, or change from looking at the computer and getting up for a drink.
4. Try an over the counter teardrop product to soothe your eyes, if they feel dry after reading, knitting or staring at the computer for a particularly long time.
5. Make sure to get outdoors, in the natural light a few times during the day.
6. Do eye exercises which include stretches and squeezes. Stretch your range of vision as far as possible to the right, to the left, down and up. These exercise can be performed with the eyes open or closed.

Tips

• Closing your eyes and relaxing usually relieves eyestrain.
• Try playing some type of outdoor sport that involves lots of far objects, like tennis.

Warnings

• If after trying these methods you still suffer from discomfort of your eyes, contact your eye Doctor and make an appointment for an eye examination.