RESUMEN
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a revolution in the education sector. The continuous use of gadgets for learning and entertainment has aroused a keen interest in eye health and the role of foods and nutrients in improving eye health. This study aims to identify and summarize various eye disorders and parameters that are involved in ocular health. Methods: A detailed search of related literature has been carried out with the help of authenticated search engines like Pubmed and Google scholar to review the major deleterious eye problems that persist, and the aetiology of the disorders. Though ocular health is determined by several parameters like socio economic factors, genetic determinants, gender, race, life style and nutrition, diet seems to be a significant lifestyle element that pose to have longstanding effects on ocular health. This study concludes that, it is not an individual nutrient or non-nutrient that impacts eye health, rather a holistic nutritional approach renders more efficacy on vision. It is emphasized that a proper advocacy of foods and nutrients, wise means of technology usage can help to overcome the deleterious effects of deficiencies on eyes.
RESUMEN
The pandemic Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) which has hampered the globe since December 2019 has endangered the livelihood of human race. Corona Virus Disease is a new strain of coronavirus that twitches with symptoms of fever, sore throat with dry cough, body ache, fatigue, anosmia (loss of sense of smell), dysgeusia (loss of sense of taste) resembling the ailments of common flu within two to fourteen days of exposure. Recently, emesis and diarrhoea are also seen as indicators in most of the patients. When the sever-ity of the disease increases, the pulmonary system is impaired, and the artifi-cial respiratory system support becomes essential for survival. It is not only the ratio of morbidity or mortality that prerequisites insights on discussion about the pandemic, rather there are many other arenas that needs to be pon-dered. Although, the preventive measures like personal hygiene, social dis-tancing, self-quarantine in case of suspicion, followed by the individuals and the measures implemented by the Government like curfew, have proven effective in reducing the number of victims to coronavirus, the socio-economic dan-gers caused to human society is at large. Hence, this study aims to review the threats and challenges posed by the pandemics, like Corona Virus Disease on the grounds of education, economic security, food and nutrition security, physical health and psychological health.