Starting today, turn off your phone one hour earlier and stop staying up late playing with your phone...

March 10-16, 2024 is the 17th World Glaucoma Week. Glaucoma is a common blinding eye disease, and the vision loss it causes is irreversible.

Many people have the habit of looking at their phones before going to bed, and many of them turn off the lights to check their phones. Attention! Attention! Turning off the lights to check your phone can easily induce glaucoma!

Recently, a topic "Playing with mobile phone for a long time before going to bed may make you ugly" has become a hot search. At the same time, the topic "Be careful of glaucoma when turning off the lights to watch mobile phone" is also very popular.

Seeing this, how many people have started to tremble, not wanting to become ugly, and even more not wanting to become blind... So, starting tonight, let's turn off our phones one hour in advance!

Playing with your phone for 8 minutes before bedtime can make your body excited for 1 hour

A sleep assessment platform in the United States conducted a sleep data survey on more than 2,000 people and found that 78% of the subjects had revenge sleep procrastination, and it took an average of 1 hour to fall asleep after playing with their phones. Revenge sleep procrastination refers to delaying sleep to do something unimportant, indicating that the subjects have a very poor balance between work and life. The study finally found that as long as the photosensitive optic nerve cells are stimulated by blue light for about 8 minutes, the body will continue to be excited for more than 1 hour, causing a disorder of the biological clock.

In addition, the study also pointed out that playing with mobile phones before going to bed may reduce the percentage of rapid eye movement sleep in total sleep by 14%, and it takes at least 1 hour to fall asleep after using it.

Under normal circumstances, a person's eyeballs hardly move after falling asleep. This period is called non-rapid eye movement sleep. After about an hour or an hour and a half, the eyeballs will start to move back and forth. This period is called rapid eye movement sleep and lasts for 10 to 15 minutes.

Turn off the lights and look at your phone, beware of glaucoma

Recently, according to a CCTV evening news report: Turning off the lights to look at the phone is very bad for the eyes, it will damage the cells that secrete tears, and easily cause symptoms such as dry eyes and fatigue. Clinically, many patients with acute angle-closure glaucoma are induced by turning off the lights to look at the phone for a long time.

Wang Fenggang, director of the Glaucoma Department at Nanjing Aier Eye Hospital, pointed out that watching TV for a long time can make the sympathetic nerves very excited, and dim light can cause the pupil to dilate, causing the eyeball angle to close, the aqueous humor circulation to be blocked, and the intraocular pressure to rise. In addition, if a person has risk factors for glaucoma, it is easy to induce glaucoma. In addition, some people who like to turn off the lights to watch their mobile phones are also prone to irritation of the macular area, which may induce glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration, and the blindness rate of these diseases is very high.

How to prevent glaucoma?

1. Maintain healthy eye habits. Avoid excessive eye strain and avoid using your eyes for a long time in dim light;

2. Develop good living habits. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest, keep your emotions stable, and maintain good sleep;

3. Manage systemic diseases. Controlling diseases such as hypertension and diabetes can reduce the negative impact of these diseases on eye health;

4. Avoid eye injuries. Wear protective glasses when participating in strenuous activities that may cause eye injuries.

Glaucoma patients should have regular checkups

Doctors remind: Except for young people who like to stay up late to watch TV series and play games on their mobile phones, people of any age may suffer from glaucoma. In particular, people with high myopia or hyperopia, family history of glaucoma, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and people over 40 years old are at high risk and should go to the hospital for regular glaucoma examinations to exclude or detect glaucoma early and treat it as soon as possible.