Computer Glasses

Direct symptoms of visual stress generated by the computer

- eye pressure
- headache
- focus difficulties
- myopia
- doubled image
- modifications in color perception

Indirect symptoms can include

- muscle and bone pain (throat, shoulders, back, hand wrist)
- excessive physical tiring
- lower visual efficiency while the activity

Keeping the eyes healthy while working with the computer. All of us who had spent a long time in front of the computer monitor (a dangerous source of light radiations) are complaining at a time from the appearance of vision problems. Often these are transient and disappear after resting the eyes. The impact of daily use of the computer for some hours over the eyes health must not be neglected especially because it is becoming more obvious the fact that the computer use is extending on the whole life time and it includes both personal area and educational – professional area. In this sense, we must take some precaution measures which will help us keep a healthy sight for a much longer time.

Precaution measures for eye illness.

1. Using some special computer glasses while using the computer.

- it has been demonstrated that using these glasses takes to increasing of the visual comfort.
- the computer glasses are an indispensable accessory when using the computer
- the ordinary glasses lenses can not ensure the required flexibility when working with the computer
- the special bifocal lenses for the computer have the upper portion designed for following the screen, while the down side is designed to follow the keyboard.
- the colored lenses covered with anti reflection layers are useful as additional elements for increasing the comfort while watching the computer’s screen.

2. Stop viewing the monitor’s screen at regulated time intervals (15 – 20 minutes).

3. Eye muscles movement (rotations, blinking) after finishing the work with the computer.

4. The personalization of the work environment and games.

5. Using voice synthesizers for reading the text.

The visual stress made by computer use. One of the most important area of the progress and renewal in our society is the computer penetration in the most various economical, social, cultural and managerial areas of life. Through the appearing of the computer and distribution of the multimedia systems (which are combining telecommunications, electronic computing technique and audio – video), the automated processing of the information is reaching new dimensions. Through the modern telecommunication systems, the digital information has reached inside the professional activity of many computing technique users, from informatics units organized in institutions, enterprises, from experts in computers to computer users. So the computer is improving our life, this advantage doesn’t spare us from some risks in health. The recent studies has shown that the work type and the number of hour per day of using video terminals are important factors in determine the level of problems caused by this activity. The eye problems are the most common for computer using. Unfortunately there are not so many information related to the computer and visual stress. There are also missing wide public information sources related to this problem. We propose in the first place to analyze the risks over the man’s health which are implied by the inadequate computer using, and second, we wish to offer some useful advices to the users for working with the computer and benefit from an increased comfort.

Today only in the US are over 100 million people with are using video display terminals, and this number is expected to increase up to 150 million in the year 2008.

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