TESTIMONY. “I’m a Doctor and Here’s the Sinister Reason You Should Never Rub Your Eyes”

Bad habit. According to doctor Sr Sam, who practices in Singapore, rubbing your eyes can have extreme consequences such as blindness or even eye strain. He explains this by pointing out that “when you use the back of your hand to rub, the pressure is much stronger than with your fingertips”. The doctor uses a particularly disturbing example: Australian teenager who went blind in one eye and almost blind on the other because he constantly rubbed his eyes when he was very young. How is it possible ? According to Dr. Sam, the intense rubbing changes the shape of the cornea and causes loss of sight.

And the doctor goes further by showing in particular on his TikTok accountMRIs of eyeballs completely pushed back into their sockets due to excessive pressure caused by intensive friction. In the case of the young Australian patient, it is certainly a rare disease that affects very few people, but that did not prevent the doctor from recalling that rubbing your eyes can be very dangerous in the long run.

Myopia as a risk factor

He also added that nearsighted people are more susceptible to this kind of disease because theMyopia increases the chances of retinal detachment. On his TikTok account, Doctor Sam therefore encourages people to rub their eyes with their fingertips rather than the knuckles, and to moderate this kind of habit so as not to damage their eyesight. The doctor also takes advantage of his platform to talk about other health problems as rare as they are shocking, sensitive souls refrain…