Protecting your eyes from the sun's rays is important

While we've been told for many years at the present how important it is to protect our skin from the harmful effect of the sun's rays, do you know how significant it is to protect our eyesight from the sun as well.

Ultraviolet light, long known to cause skin cancer, be able to also be absorbed by your eyes, causing a number of chronic eye diseases, such because cataracts, age-related macular degeneration, pterygia (tissue growths on the eye), photokeratitis (a temporary sunburn on the eye, also called snowblindness) and skin cancer on tissues adjacent the eye.

Both UVA and UVB rays penetrate the Earth's atmosphere and wreak havoc on unguarded eyes, UVB rays are higher energy than UVA and are the ones primarily responsible for causing skin cancer they are mostly absorbed through the cornea and lens, except they can also penetrate deeper and cause damage, UVA rays are lower energy waves these are the rays to make you tan, but they also contribute to skin cancer and they penetrate a large amount deeper into your eyes to the retina.