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From: mn@atari.UUCP (Mike Nowicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: my eyes are killing me...
Message-ID: <2246@atari.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 90 19:47:57 GMT
References: <1921@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <32129@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: mn@atari.UUCP (Mike Nowicki)
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <32129@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Steve Coile asks about eye problems caused by long usage of computer
>monitors...
> 
>The issue of "emissions" from computer monitors has been going on for
>a long time, and probably won't be settled any time soon.. but the kinds
>of eyestrain symptoms Steve described aren't likely due to any emissions
>anyway...
> 
>The biggest problem is the relatively close distance between the monitor
>and your eyes.  It strains the muscles in the eye to keep focussed on
>a plane at the distance of a typical computer monitor for long periods of
>time.. (it's a lot easier on the eye when it's focussed at "infinity", or
>far away...)
> 
>Add to that the fine detail of a high-resolution screen and the fact that
>most activity of the eyes is reading text (involving a lot of "start and
>stop" movement of the eyes, and the parallax adjustments needed to keep
>both eyes focussed on the same spot), and you get some pretty amazing
>eyestrain...
> 
>One thing that can help is to move the monitor as far away from your eyes
>as is practical...  another solution is to obtain special eyeglasses which
>re-focus the eyes at a much farther "virtual" distance.  Ask an optometrist
>about these...
> 

  A trick my eye doctor told me about for those who stare at screens a good
part of the day is to look out a window and focus on something very far
away for a few minutes. It supposedly does something to equalize the
balance of the rods and the cones of the eyes.
  I've been doing this for a couple of years and I find it DOES relieve
some of the eyestrain you feel at the end of the day.

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