DIGITAL SCREENS CAN AFFECT THE HEALTH OF YOUR EYES- BE AWARE

Rigomo Team

Sat, 04 Oct 2025

Whether it's for academic functions, amusement, leisure, or work, a full-fledged digital way has progressively become part of our lives. Indeed, as a part of this way amendment, work-from-home has become an additional permanent feature of our everyday routine.

Symptoms and causes –

The multiplied screen time and also the resultant eye issues are often gauged through a spread of symptoms. These may be within the sort of “eye strain, headaches, blurred vision or diplopia, dry eyes or maybe neck and shoulder pain. Sometimes, it will even cause disturbance in sleep patterns and difficulties in concentration.

How does screen time affect eye-health?

o   Excessive screen time also can cause ‘Computer Vision Syndrome ‘or ‘Digital Eye Strain ‘. Excluding the movement of our eyes, the focusing and focalisation on a pc or alternative digital screens needs extra efforts on a part of the eye muscles and also the vision system.

o   Also, whereas we tend to are engrossed with our screens, we tend to tend to blink less that ends up in dry eyes with connected consequences.

o   Folks touching forty, notably, have to be compelled to exert additional since their natural lenses become weak.

o   While people with unaddressed or under-addressed vision problems can have additional issues for obvious reasons, those carrying some eyewear like eyeglasses and lenses additionally ought to be equally careful.

o   “Screen use, notably reception, is usually related to improper posture and improper home lighting. The viewer is usually forced to bend his head, not simply intensifying discomfort to eyes however additionally inflicting back and neck pain.

What should you have to do?

• First you've got to try and do, reducing or ‘right-sizing’ the screen time is that the commencement that one must take into account.

• Second, putting the pc or alternative screen in a sufficiently lit area should become a priority.

• Third, adequate distance — ideally at arm’s length — and applicable viewing angle between the individual and also the screen should be maintained.

• Fourth, glasses, and lenses filtering blue rays and with ultraviolet illumination protection ought to be taken recourse to.

• “Fifth and extremely significant,  is that you always have to keep a distance of 20-20 minutes from the computer and digital screen, this will have less effect on your eyes.

This would offer the eyes much-needed rest on an everyday basis.

Therefore, whereas work-from-home and also the resulting multiplied screen time has several benefits, there are downsides too concerning our eye health. A study reports that almost twenty-third of the Indian population had suffered some level of weakening vision throughout the pandemic-driven multiplied homestays. As such, whereas we tend to can’t do away with our screens utterly, we tend to should exercise caution. Moderation is the key here for improving eye health.