Protect Your Eyes from Harmful Rays with Computer Glasses
Staring at Screens All Day Can Cause Headaches and Eye Strain;
Wearing Computer Glasses Can Alleviate This
Computers have changed a lot over the last few decades. We went from green screens, to color VGA, and now, we have 4k capable monitors. And although the visuals improved, one aspect of computing continues to plague us, and that is the issue of eye strain.
Back in the late 80s, I spent a lot of my day staring into computer monitors. I began having terrible headaches on a daily basis, and I was convinced it was related to my screen time. A colleague, who was having similar issues, and I both sought medical help around the same time. Both of us were referred to an Optometrist, and both of us were prescribed reading glasses with a special coating.
Different optometrists told us that the act of focusing on a screen was tiring our eyes. As our eyes tired, they lost their ability to adjust focus from closer to farther things. In theory, reading glasses could help prevent this. They would help our pupils learn to better adapt, sort of like exercise for our eyes. The special coating would reduce glare, helping to protect our eyes from further damage. We both started wearing our glasses while focusing on a monitor, and we both experienced substantial relief from eye strain and the associated headaches.
Somewhere over the decades, I stopped wearing my computer glasses. We were told monitors improved to the point emissions and glare were no longer threats. We began working on larger monitors with better screen resolutions, which made things easier to see. We learned to bump up text size when our eyes were feeling strained. But then came the Cell Phone Revolution. Along with it came the tendency to make screens smaller and more portable. We began trading our desktop PCs for laptops. And a lot of us started experiencing the eye strain of the past again. Only we didn't realize it.
