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by ibgames

EARTHDATE: July 27, 2014

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REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU COMPUTERS WERE BAD FOR YOUR EYES!

by Hazed

Oh dear. Yet another warning from my mother turns out to be true. She used to complain that I spent too long staring at the telly, then later that I was glued to a computer all day, and that all this screen-time would ruin my eyes. It looks like she was right.

A new study says that if you spend more than seven hours a day in front of a computer monitor you could be stripping your “tear film” of a component it needs to keep your eyes lubricated and healthy.

The problem is that we tend to open our eyes wider, and blink less frequently, while staring at screens than we do when we’re performing other tasks. This has the effect of reducing the amount of a protein called MUC5AC which is found in the eye’s mucus layer called the “tear film”. The lower proportion comes close to the amount found in people who have been diagnosed with a condition in which their tears are unable to supply enough moisture, called dry eye disease.

This is a problem because when tears lubricate the eyes, it keeps them clean.

Since I don’t want you to dash away from your computer and stop reading the Star, you need to follow the advice provided to keep your eyes healthy: keep a humidifier close by.

Source: http://io9.com/staring-at-a-computer-all-day-or-night-totally-does-a-1594200628

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