Why It’s Bad To Rub The Eyes

When parents tell their children to stop rubbing their eyes, they do so for a good reason. Eye rubbing does not only damage the curvature and structure of the eyes, but it also causes abrasions that could lead to infections, and later on vision impairment, or worse.

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There are different kinds of eye infections. Below are some of them.

Conjunctivitis

Viral and bacterial infections come in the form of conjunctivitis. Breaking it down further, conjunctivitis can be harmless (viral conjunctivitis) or dangerous to one’s eyesight (chlamydial conjunctivitis). Viral and bacterial conjunctivitis cause pink eye and can be treated with eye drops.

Chlamydial conjunctivitis, on the other hand, is much more serious. It is a sexually transmitted disease bacteria that if left untreated, can scar the surface of the eye. Unfortunately, newborns often contract chlamydial conjunctivitis if the mother has the disease in her birth canal.

Keratitis

Keratitis is an eye problem that may come in two forms: fungal or acanthamoeba. Both forms are found to come from problems with contact lenses, and when left untreated, may lead to blindness.

Fungal keratitis is caused by fusarium, a harmful fungus, yeast and filamentous fungi, and a host of other fungi. Acanthamoeba keratitis happens when amoeba enters the cornea. Just like other amoeba infections in the body, this happens when a person’s eyes are exposed to dirty water.

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Patents and technology in the United States: An overview

Each year, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO issue hundreds of thousands of patents. In 2017, technology titan IBM once again topped the list of patents, while social media giant Facebook broke into the top 50. IBM has dominated the USPTO’s annual ranking and at the moment has more patents than Google, Oracle, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Amazon, and Accenture combined.

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Anyone who owns or manages technology firms know how important patents are to the overall growth of the company. A huge amount of lawsuits filed in courts all over the country involve patent infringement. In fact, a patent is seen as a vital part in many of a company’s sales and operations.

Patent violation lawsuits can go as high as a billion dollars, as the world has seen back in 2012 when Apple filed a case against Samsung. The patent infringement revolved around mobile devices, and while financially, Samsung survived the lawsuit, the South Korean tech empire and other mobile phone manufacturers around the world needed to alter their devices to avoid another billion-dollar case. 

And although patents are filed in almost every industry in the U.S., the spotlight is mostly on technology since it affects other industries in more ways than one. 

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