How to Prevent Eye Strain When Using Smartphones Here’s Six Tips and Tricks to Follow Step Guide Details

Recently an incident happened, which proved that excessive use of smartphone can be dangerous for our eyes. Dr Sudhir Kumar, a neurologist from Hyderabad, in an article written in Medical Dialogues, described how a 30-year-old woman lost her eyesight due to her smartphone. He also listed some measures to avoid this in this article. He told how by using the smartphone properly we can protect our eyes from stress or other diseases. Here we are telling you some easy tips, by following which you can protect your eyes.

Tips to prevent eyes from stress and other dangers

Smartphone technology had not developed much until a few years ago. However, today smartphone brands make their devices equipped with many display technologies, which try to keep our eyes away from strain or other dangers. However, still, excessive use is dangerous for the eyes in any case. Nowadays, smartphones of almost all brands come equipped with dark mode. This is a kind of dark theme, which changes the background of apps or any screen to black or dark gray color. This will prevent strain on your eyes while using the smartphone or reading text in low light or darkness.

Blue light is also the biggest enemy for our eyes. Be it smartphone, laptop or TV, all displays emit blue light. Exposure to blue light causes a lot of strain to our eyes. Be it Android smartphones or iPhones, nowadays all OEMs provide blue light filters on their smartphones with different names (by the name of Night Shift in iPhones). By turning on this feature, the blue light emitted from the display is reduced and the strain on your eyes is also reduced.

Excessive or low display brightness also puts strain on our eyes. Yes, here we have used the word ‘less’. Excessive brightness is not only dangerous for your eyes, but in a particular situation, less brightness than required has a bad effect on your eyes. The solution to this is the ‘Auto Brightness’ feature, which automatically adjusts the brightness of your phone according to the external light.

Dr. Sudhir Kumar’s have to say Blinking your eyes regularly (for more than a second) keeps your eyes moist and reduces stress. Make sure you blink 10 to 20 times every half hour while using your phone. Blinking also helps your eyes refocus.

Make sure the text size is large on your smartphone screen. Due to the small size, the eyes have to strain a lot while reading the text. You can easily change the text size by going to the settings of your smartphone.

There is also a 20/20/20 rule. This means that every 20 minutes you need to look at something at least 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. This can prove to be very helpful in protecting your eyes.