How to Protect Your Eyes From Computers and Phones

As if computers weren't enough, now the eyes have been added to another enemy, “martphone” and iPadút, which force us to stay long ahead of them.

In fact, when we use the computer too much, our vision is the first to be endangered.

Just think that two hours a day before the monitor can seriously increase visual problems, and half the hours spent in front of the computer for work or at home can be over the official 8 hours.

What makes the situation even worse is the massive use of “martphone” to check “e-mail” to send messages and photos. screens are often small and not always clean.

For this reason “American Academy of Optometry” has drawn up a kind of guide to save people's eyes (but also their backs) from the “computer consumption style” and various mistakes.

1) According to “American Academy of Optometic”, the first thing to do is keep the computer screen clean to avoid eye fatigue and if you use “smartphone”, try not to expose it to sunlight.

2) Choose gray, non - open, or white backgrounds because your eyes will get less tired.

3) Keep the right distance between yourself and computer monitor. According to “American Academy of Optomity” this distance is equal to the length of your outstretched arm.

4) Posit the screen a few inches above the height of your eyes and so that it does not reflect the light.

5) Adjust monitor lighting based on computer time.

6) <x0) In fact, by not opening our eyes to the computer screen, we often lose sight of this simple rule, which is very important not to damage our eyes.

7) Remember the rule of “20-20”: In America it means that every twenty minutes of work in front of your computer, take a 20 - second break, counting on a walk of 20 steps, or six feet. If you don't want to be so punctual, then it's enough, a several - minute vacation every half hour of work, which allows your eyes to rest.

8) Use protective glasses. According to American experts, you should necessarily buy a pair of glasses so that you can use them especially when working on your computer. Glasses clarify the sight and relax the eyes.

9) Be careful even using “martphone”. The proper distance between mobile phones and eyes should be the same as that of the outstretched arm, with the hand holding the phone and slightly below the shoulders level, writes Balkanweb. They usually keep their shoulders in the wrong position, both when we write on the computer and when we keep our cell phone in hand.

10) If you're sitting on a table, it's good to keep the keyboard at such length that your shoulders are not contracted but are free. You can help yourself by standing straight in the chair.

The final advice (which is more a guideline and comes from the rules of the traffic code) is for all who do not know to resist the temptation to send messages or photos when driving. It is absolutely wrong to do something like that when crossing the street and when driving.