Diseases caused by the monitor.

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Known disease that causes the computer monitor

According to eye specialists, excessive use of the computer can cause eye fatigue, which usually manifests with headache, blurred vision, dry eyes and redness

Spend hours in front of computer monitor can cause visual discomfort and asthenopia uncomfortable, or what is known as fatigue of the eyes caused by consistent use of accommodation, depending on the eye that allows you to focus from far and near, manifesting as headache, blurred vision, dry eyes, redness and foreign body.

Yunuen Leon, a doctor specialized in ophthalmology at the state delegation of Mexico west of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), explained that the disease is accentuated by the modern lifestyle that handle most of the people, because now the spaces homes, offices or factories are too small, limiting the visual environment nearby.

Notably, one factor that influences visual affectations such as the use of artificial lighting, because the increase of the activities involve a fine view as are the reading, writing and now, the widespread use of cellular and the tensions of modern life and increasing pollution.

As the expert explained that although the manifestations of asthenopia are characteristic, diagnosis is regularly combined with another condition, and recommended to the rightful users of computers, either by necessity or work, get at least once a year, a general check of the eye, but in 10 patients seen in the field, at least 2 symptoms of impairment.

Similarly, Yunuen Leon recommended that if computer use should be made constant breaks to rest their eyes and blinking, which promotes blood circulation, as well as to relax the body and mind, to avoid more severe conditions.



Facts to consider
Asthenopia
What is it?
From the etymological point of view, the term asthenopia means "low vision", but its meaning does not refer to the "decline in visual function," but it is a very broad and poorly defined boundaries. Asthenopia includes all the trouble and inconvenience to appear in connection with near vision, such as eye discomfort, blurred vision, diplopia sporadic sensation, premature tiredness, inability to consistently maintain a clear image to the scheduled distance, headache, retroorbital pain, and so on.

What are the symptoms?

A. Feeling of heaviness in the eyes.
B. Sensation of eye strain.
C. Awareness of the existence of one's own eyes.
D. Redness.
E. Ocular itching.
F. Increased secretion of tears. Epiphora.
G. Headache.
H. Visual acuity.
I. Blurred perception of objects