INTRODUCTION:
The
school eye health programme is one which offers health education and preventive
optical services to school pupils/teachers with the primary goal of ensuring
that every pupil/teacher has access to optical care. Teachers and pupils can be
very effective in academics, if regular optical treatment through health
education are observed.
In
order to detect, if there are diseases in the eye, the following exercises are
necessary and are hereby recommended.
(1)
The teacher will conduct a basic eye examination, such as external checking of
the eye, the eye lid and surrounding areas
(2)
Checking the general eye muscles and examining the front of the eye using an
upright microscope e.g (a slit lamp)
(3)
Using E-chart to know whether the teacher /pupil suffers from short or long
sightedness.
THE
BASIC PROCEDURE BY THE SCREENER/TEACHER ARE AS
FOLLOWS: (PRACTICAL)
The Steps Are:
(1)
Wash your hands
(2)
Puton hand gloves
(3)
Place the learner/teacher on a chair facing you so that his/her eyes should be
close to you in order to make your observations
(4)
The proper screening to know whether the eye is red or have any other defect,
like swollen eye etc.
(5)
You have to document your findings on health record book
(6)
Make your recommendations
TOOLS/EQUIPMENT
FOR THE EYE SCREENING
The
tools to be used are:
(1)
Hand glove
(2)
Flash light
(3)
Soap and water
(4)
Paper tower/hand towel
(5)
Chair for the leaner /screener
(6)
Health record book/document
Others
are:
(7)
Microscope
(8)
E-chart
(9)
Forceps (used for holding any tool)
(10)
Speclum (used to keep the eye open)
(11)
Spectacles
Number
7-11 are not easily available and not mostly assessable to the teacher but only
to an optician.
OBSERVATION AFTER THE SCREENING
After
the practical screening, the following observations were made:
(1)
The teacher/pupil’s eyes may be observed to be reddish
(2)
May be observed that his/her eyes cannot see near or distant object, by the
help of E.chart.
(3)
The person may be observed to be lacking Vitamin A.
(4)
May have been observed to have physical damage.
Number
3 and 4 are mostly as a result of test conducted by the optician. After the
screening/observation, some recommendation and referrals could be made for
further visit to the specialist or optician.
In
conclusion our goals should be a regular and proper eye hygiene, in order to
avoid eye disorder /diseases at early stage or even in future in our daily life
activities, if all these observations, care, protection are put in place, there
will be a less generation of eye defect.