BBC Morning Live doctor urges people to do one thing in 'festive warning'
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BBC Morning Live GP and regular on the show, Doctor Xand van Tullken, has warned people to be careful with what they do in the next few weeks over Christmas and the New Year period. Issuing a "festive warning" to stay safe. He revealed in the UK, there are over "two million people in the UK struggling with their vision in some way and one and five of us can be expected to deal with significant loss of vision over the course of our lives.".
In a warning to people this Christmas, the doctor said: "I'll give you a festive warning. Every single medical student remembers being taught about getting hit in the eye by a champagne cork. They travel at 50 miles an hour and I can blind you. Always put your hands over, just make that's one thing to cross over your Christmas list this year. Just open your first gently.".
The expert says that there's a "wide range of causes of loss of vision" such an eye injury, diabetes, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma - the last two of which are the "most common causes of vision loss in the UK." Because of this, the expert says that if you have risk factors for these conditions or similar, then your sight could be getting worse because of these. In fact, your overall health impacts the vision of your eyes "tremendously", he explains, adding that our eyes have "very small blood vessels, they’re very delicate precise pieces of equipment" which are affected by lifestyle factors such as smoking, alcohol and more.
