Do you like to relax by
lying down and brushing your mobile phone for a while? Recently, a female college student was diagnosed with strabismus because she lay on her side and played with her mobile phone for a long time. She claimed that “she played with her mobile phone for 10 hours a day on average, and her visual function declined. She could not tell whether it was plane or three-dimensional.” After the incident was reported, it aroused concern. Many netizens quickly “sit in the right seat”: lying on their side playing with mobile phones, incorrect use of eyes, excessive use of eyes for a long time, it seems that every item has been hit, but also worried about whether they will squint in the long run.
Experts warn that the various postures of playing with mobile phones are not all the causes of strabismus. Whether lying on the side or standing or sitting, the most important thing is to reduce the time of using mobile phones and control the distance between the eyes and the screen of mobile phones. Lying down and playing with his mobile phone for a
long time, a 12-year-old boy suddenly squinted
. Recently, Binbin (pseudonym), a 12-year-old boy from Wuhan, found that his eyes frequently appeared double. “It’s all cross-eyed!” At first, the family mistakenly thought that the glasses rematched during the summer vacation were broken and went to the glasses shop to “argue” with the boss. It was this “friction” that made her mother, Ms. Li, realize the seriousness of the problem and rushed to the hospital with Binbin. After the doctor’s examination, it was found that Binbin’s eyes were alternately deviated inward, and his eyes were alternately covered with about 90 prism degrees of inward deviation, which could not be controlled. After excluding the possibility of systemic lesions, he was finally diagnosed as “acute comitant esotropia”. Why does such a small child suffer from strabismus? The doctor communicated with the parents in detail and learned that Binbin was obsessed with playing with mobile phones during the summer vacation. “As long as he is not under the eyes of adults, he will lie down and brush his mobile phone. It is common for him to brush his mobile phone for several hours a day. Sometimes he refuses to admit that his eyes are swollen.” Mom said. Xie Xiaohua speculated that Binbin was due to the increase of eye load caused by long-term overuse of eyes, which made the eye muscles tense and over-regulated, and gradually deviated the eyes inward, leading to the induction of “acute concomitant esotropia”.
Not only harmful to the eyes, but also harmful
to the health of the whole body. Recently, a female college student was diagnosed with strabismus because she lay on her side and played with her mobile phone for a long time. She claimed that “playing with her mobile phone for 10 hours a day on average, her visual function declined, and she could not tell whether it was plane or three-dimensional.” After the incident was reported by the media, it aroused concern. Lying on your side for a
long time and playing with your mobile phone can really induce strabismus? Doctors said that this statement actually has a certain scientific basis, because when lying on the side, binocular vision is unbalanced, adjustment and convergence function is abnormal, some myopic patients like to look at mobile phones without glasses, long-term more likely to induce strabismus. “Recently, the department has received several patients with acute concomitant esotropia, whose causes are directly related to lying down and looking at mobile phones.” He Yanan, an ophthalmologist at
the Yangtze River Shipping General Hospital, made it clear that the cause of strabismus was not “lying on the side”, but “long time” and “close distance”. Because people need to use the “adjustment” function of the eyes when looking near, the eyes cause the inward rotation of the eyes (commonly known as the opposite eyes) while “adjusting”, which is called “convergence”. Adjustment and convergence are a linkage process, and the two maintain a synergistic relationship. So if you look close for a long time, the eyes will be over-adjusted and the eyes will continue to turn inward, which will lead to “concomitant esotropia” in the long run.
He Yanan pointed out that lying on one’s side and playing with mobile phones for a long time is not only directly harmful to the eyes, but also harmful to the muscles, spine, blood vessels, sleep, skin, etc. When lying on one’s side and playing with mobile phones, the blood vessels of the eyes near the side of the pillow are oppressed and the blood supply is insufficient, which may lead to short-term image overlap and ciliary muscle spasm. Uneven use of the left and right eyes can easily lead to anisometropia, amblyopia and strabismus in severe cases; long-term lying on the side and playing with mobile phones can lead to excessive traction of shoulder, neck, waist and back muscles, and long-term stiffness, tension and fatigue, which can easily lead to neck stiffness, shoulder pain, back pain, scoliosis, cervical and lumbar disc herniation; Lying still for a long time can also lead to slow blood flow, high blood viscosity, and greatly increase the risk of deep vein thrombosis; playing with mobile phones before going to bed can make the brain in an excited state, causing difficulty in falling asleep, leading to biological clock disorders, and reducing the quality of sleep; staying up late and the harm of blue light from mobile phones can also lead to dark skin, large pores, acne, freckles, eye bags and other problems.
