Tis the Season: A Guide to Keeping Your Eyes Protected This Holiday Season

The weather is getting colder, the air is getting brisk, and the holiday season is finally here. You are probably thinking about putting up your decorations, finishing your shopping, and spending some wonderful time with your family—not your eye health.

Though they may be the last thing on your mind, eye injuries are still a possibility at home and can pose a threat to your enjoyment of the holiday season. Let’s face it, no one wants to spend their holidays recovering from eye injuries.

To help you make sure that you avoid this and stay present and jolly in the upcoming weeks, here are four ways to keep your eyes protected through all of your activities this holiday season.

Stay Protected & Be Cautious While Cooking

Whether you are the primary chef in your household or you only dabble, using caution while cooking is a great way to protect your eyes from injury.

Hot water, grease splashes, seasoning spills, and so much more can come into contact with your eyes, causing mild to even severe injuries that could lead to permanent damage.

Make sure to keep your heat low, and try to prevent these splashes and spills whenever you can by staying focused, using a lid, and avoiding touching your eyes, especially if you have been handling pepper-based seasonings.

Limit Your Screen Time

It is always great to watch holiday movies together with your family, contact people over the phone, and do online shopping this time of year, but it is important to monitor how much time you spend looking at a screen.

Long periods of screen time can cause eye strain, eye fatigue, dryness and irritation, headaches, blurred vision, difficulty concentrating, and a host of other issues.

Limiting your screen time is a great way to protect your eye health year-round, and avoid any unnecessary eye discomfort.

Use Eye Drops

During these colder months, your eyes are likely to get very dry. Dry eyes can be extremely uncomfortable and even painful, causing stinging, burning, redness, sensitivity to light, and all around discomfort.

One of the best ways to keep your eyes safe from this during the winter months is to use over-the-counter eye drops for dry eyes, which will lubricate your eyes and ease any discomfort you may experience.

Using them as directed when you need them will help prevent dryness from becoming a problem.

Wear Eye Protection

Putting up decorations this season? Doing housework or cleaning? Cooking? No matter what you do this season, wearing protective eyewear is one of the best ways to keep your eyes safe from irritation and injury.

Accidents happen—glass shatters, things fall and spill, dust and debris get in your eyes.

Wearing well-fitting safety glasses around the house and doing any task that might cause eye injury this holiday season will keep your eyes protected against intruding objects, debris, and impacts, so you can enjoy the holidays without the worry of eye injury.

When your eyes are protected this holiday season, you are free to focus on the things that matter to you, whether that be spending quality time with your family, getting some time to yourself, gifting, cooking, or anything else you want to do.

Don’t spend this special time of year dealing with eye injuries—do everything you can to keep your eyes protected.

If you are looking for more tips, tricks, and products to help maintain your eye health year-round, our SafeVision blog is a great place to start.

Every month, we upload new posts with the best ways to protect your eyes, guides on how to find the best safety eyewear for your needs, links to products in our extensive catalog, and so much more.

To find more information like this, visit our blog. In addition, if you find the right safety glasses for you, it’s your lucky day!