Smartphones causes temporary blindness
Posted on: 11/Jul/2016 10:48:53 AM
A 20 year old girl appeared before the doctors of the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and reported temporary blindness in her right eye. Similarly another 40 years old woman approached the doctors for the same problem. Very soon the researchers made a deep study on these two people can came to a conclusion.
They confirmed that the both of them were affected with transient monocular visual loss (transient smartphone blindness).
The first patient had a habit of gazing at her smartphone before falling asleep. She`d lie on her left side and look at the screen primarily with her right eye. Her left eye was often covered by the pillow.
The other patient, who was in her 40s, had similar problems when she woke up in the morning before sunrise and checked the news on her smartphone before sitting up.
The doctors have confirmed that this temporary blindness is because of the above said reason.
Omar Mahroo, an ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London mentioned: After exposure to a bright light, it can take 40 minutes for that process to reset, after which a person can again see in the dark. The thinking is that when one eye is exposed to a crapload of smartphone brightness and another to darkness, it could mess with their ability to calibrate once they’re both open at the same time. This form of temporary blindness is harmless, and of course avoidable if you just use both eyes to check your smartphone in bed. At the same time if you do this continuously you may lose eye sight.
