Phones and tablets cause miopi on children

Among smartphones and tablets, computers and video games a generation of children is at risk of miopia. Italian ophthalmist Matteo Piovella recommends using the computer against the telephone or the tablet because of the largest screen, which reduces the risk of miopis by getting less tired of its eyes.

It recommends that children not get closer than 50cm from the monitor and, above all, spend at least two hours a day in clean air in the open air, possibly around noon, when light is maximum.

Especially between 8 and 13 years of age

Myopia is the most common visual defect in the world, and the most endangered years for developing the problem are between 8 and 13. In particular, this school year has concluded that in the last three months of long-term education due to the Devi-19 epidemic, it is likely to exacerbate the problem because it has increased the number of hours spent before monitors.

More View Than Ever Before

Piovella explains that mass presence and monitoring and in everyday life predisposes the development of the miopia: “That's why it's essential, when you do a close activity, such as using smart phones and tablets, stop 1 minute every 20 minutes and look away from the screen, look at the horizon at the distance and relax, concentrate before looking back on the monitor.

In children, the focus is automatic and the preservation of this tension constantly, without taking predefined minor pauses, seems to be linked to the growth of the miopia”.

More Outward Time and Regular View Controls

To prevent the Piovella miopian gives two recommendations: Spend at least two hours in open air a day and do periodic checks by the oculist. We're going to have to make sure that our children can spend at least 2 hours a day in open air especially at noon because it seems that natural sunlight has a defense function in miopia evolution”, the doctor explains.

Finally, the expert says, it is essential that to go periodically to the oculist: The recommended checks should be made because the specialist also is tasked with identifying small visual defects that may not be perceived by the child or the parents, but can create difficulties and fatigue in concentration.

 Do you know that?

In Europe more than 47% of the population between 25 and 29 years of age suffers from miopia, and in new generations this percentage is increasing exponentially.