If you’re anything like most of the modern world, you spend a ton of time in front of a computer. And if you spend a ton of time in front of the computer, you’re probably squinting more than you realize. The problem with squinting is that it often leads to less blinking and thus less moisture for your eyes.
A recent study indicated that narrowing your eyes just slightly reduced eye blinks per minute by 50 percent. More pronounced squinting reduced eye blinks to just four per minute! With so little blinking, your eyes inevitably become red, itchy and irritated.
Squinting also strains the muscles around and behind your eyes, putting them through more aging strain than necessary.
The difficulty is that we evolved to keep our eyes on the distant horizon with only temporary periods where we focused on objects up close.
I hope this helps you better support those precious peepers. Of course, if you’re reading my site you should probably understand that a quality pair of bifocal reading glasses are a must for minimizing eye strain in your daily life.
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For young people, the most common vision problem is distance vision, thus most people under 40 who wear glasses or contacts are nearsighted. In general, as people age they become more and more likely to become farsighted. Sometimes this can be addressed with inexpensive reading glasses off the shelf, but sometimes the better option is to obtain prescription lenses for near vision correction. The need for bifocal reading glasses arises when someone who was nearsighted in his or her youth also becomes farsighted as he or she ages.
Most bifocals prescribed for individuals beyond the age of 40 — often prescribed because they’ve developed presbyopia — correct far and near vision. Yet these glasses do not provide an appropriate lens for the distance and eye activity involved in computer work. Some people believe trifocals and progressive lenses — both of which provide a portion of lens for intermediate distance vision — can be utilized for computer work. However, these lenses don’t provide nearly enough surface space to ease and protect eyes for extended periods of computer use.
Many computer users will suffer headaches, eye strain and blurred vision if they do not utilize appropriate computer glasses. Such symptoms indicate computer vision syndrome. These problems compound themselves with further issues when computer users without computer glasses attempt to adjust for their strained eyes or blurry vision by tilting their head to view the monitor through the bottom of their glasses or by excessively leaning towards the monitor. Such behavior leads to sore back, shoulders and neck problems.
I understand how Bifocal Reading Glasses may not seem like the most appropriate place for an extensive discussion on computer glasses, but since everyone viewing this site must, of course, be viewing it on a computer monitor, I still think it is an important issue.
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