Save 11 Minutes: (if you are in a rush) 3:57 Airflow ( @Jairo Espinel ) -don't sit directly in air conditioning -remove airborne particles (dust, pollen) 5:17 Dryness - If you can't keep your eyes open comfortably for 10 seconds, - use eyedrops or hot compress (moisture) 5:30 (lower) Viewing angle - reading below eye level preserves water by reducing exposed surface area 7:20 Proximity - closer objects --> more work - younger people have an easier time reading up close 8:00 20-20-20 Rule - every 20min = look 20ft away for 20sec 10:10 Optimal Monitor Placement - 20 inches away - 15 degrees below eye level Take care of your eyes as they will only get more difficult with age. Utilize the 20-20-20 rule and optimize your workspace to reduce exposure. If you feel your eyes burning, be sure to use eyedrops or warm compress!
I hate TH-cam for encouraging creators to stretch and drag their videos to +10 minutes (many admit it), wasting our time when the video could easily be like 5 minutes.
@@nonsudunk If you're talking about other videos, then yeah I agree. But not for this video; I don't think this video was dragged out. The extra info may not be relevant to you but it will be for others.
nah this was a huge waste of time in terms of relevant information per time he repeated the same words like 4 times in a row in just the first 3 minutes
Thank you Antonio - I am at the computer all day and do get eye fatigue, blurred vision, even headaches. My Optometrist has told me for years that I have dry eyes - I could not really understand this too much as my eyes tend to water a lot - I am not crying . . .
Excessive tearing is actually one of the signs and phase of dry eyes . The reason behind it is that our brain will stimulate the lacrimal gland to produce more tears to relieve the dryness from your eye. After that phase of tearing then comes the actual drying of the eyes.
@@AntonioTheOptom Hi Antonio, Is it possible can we completely cure the eye tiredness and pain, but still work on the computer? Any light arrangements from back ground and top or anything you can recommend? Thanks
I'm a graphic designer and I've been doing my work digitally for almost 7 years now (plus the fact that I use my PC for personal stuff daily). When I was at graphic design school, I remember we had our screens tilted and lowered, almost touching the top of the desk and our chairs were slightly set higher so we could sit somewhat above the screens. In addition, our professor always told us that our eyes shouldn't be positioned directly at the center of the screen but slightly above it, kind of similar to the way one would comfortably read a book at library or when sitting on a tilted desk that's ideal for drawing. It was really comfortable doing my work with that setting until I actually got a job... I would always adjust my screen and desk to what I found comfortable and easy and my boss would *always* undo everything the next day and scold me about it. He used to tell me that my position was "wrong" so he would set the screen way higher than what it was comfortable to be doing 8 hour work on and also told me to lower my chair because "it's not flattering" to be sitting that high (I never understood what that meant????) so my eyes would get strained from staring up constantly on that screen would turn red. After some time of getting tired with his bs he finally admitted that the reason he kept setting my screen that high and me sitting lower was so he can also look at my screen from his desk without me blocking the view.... not to mention that I already have eye problems like myopia and astigmatism, this would leave me with a sense of dizziness and difficulty focusing throughout the day. I'm glad though that I left that workplace behind me, for this but for a lot of other reasons as well.
@@unsanitizedbabywipes6154 if you read the story, the boss scolded them because the boss wanted to be able to see their screen from their office's point of view. please read the whole story
I built a monitor setup that has two rows of monitors, one at eye level and the second row above eye level. After a few months of use I started having almost daily eye pain. Your explanation about looking up stressing and drying the eye more makes a lot of sense.
I'm interested what you think about VR. The screen is projected at virtual infinity, and the objects being looked at are at different directions, so eyes move. Still, blinking less is a thing since games are games, and working in VR is still staring at a screen.
@NiCat07 Yep it does use distortion to make eyes have to move to focus. Also, it's projected at infinity using lenses. So it's basically like holding an infinitely large phone at infinite distance from your eyes. Well in theory, if the lenses were perfect. Practically they project the image at some distance between hundreds of meters and infinity, depending on the quality of the lense. Static dublicated images do cause a lot of strain since all distances are treated equal, causing the eyes to always point at it directly. That's usually called flat VR, by people who use vorpX or something and the game doesn't support full 3d projection.
@@ichosolemanuel6048 Staring at the moon for extended periods of time. So yea eyestrain is still an issue. But less than a monitor close by. I feel less strain using VR for long periods than playing games on a monitor, but that maaay be because my monitor is far too close to me.
@@ichosolemanuel6048 Nah. You can't take your eyes off from the screen for some seconds, so it's not good either. It's probably in the 'needs more research' camp. I have only experience from my own eyes, and it feels less harmful, but that also is only, "it feel". So yea, less harmful than you would think, but not sure of long term effects.
This is one of very few BS-free videos on eye strain when using a computer screen. Perhaps you could also have mentioned "focus hunting", but that was mainly an issue with old CRT monitors.
@@0q2628 If you try to focus on a blurry or flickering image, such as on old CRT displays, the "autofocus" mechanism of our visual system continuously shifts accommodation distance, trying (and failing) to find the perfect focus (similar to autofocus in your camera or you have several differently spaced objects in the frame, or try to focus through dirty window or curtains.) This causes fatigue of tiny muscles that squeeze the lens in order to shorten its focal length.
@@bazoo513 All I could find on the topic just now was people adjusting the focus of a CRT. Would this still apply to non-blurry modern LCD/OLED strobed displays? And does increasing the refresh rate/strobe rate reduce this effect? All modern VR headsets strobe their display(s) to drastically reduce motion blur. Active 3D displays and some gaming monitors also use strobing for that reason.
@@rohansampat1995 Another myth. Electron beam does, in theory, produce some bremsstrahlung in soft X-ray range, but tube glass absorbs it all. I measured it myself. As for low frequency EM radiation, it was mostly invention by Nokia, in order to promote their "low radiation" monitors.
I've been a full-time rather obsessed programmer (working many hours per day) for more than 40 years now, and I'm at the age which my eyesight would be fading anyway. Habits I picked up early which have probably helped have been: (1) to make a point to keep blinking fairly often, (2) make sure I have some light on the wall behind my computers lit up, so I'm not staring at a bright screen with a very dark background, (3) occasionally looking up and running my eyes along the intersection of the walls and the ceiling, and (4) Turning off overhead fluorescent lights while working on the computer. That fourth one is almost certainly not as important now as it was back when my computer monitors were CRT's. There are interactions between the flickering of fluorescent lighting and CRT refresh rates which many people will not notice, but which add to the strain on your eyes.
Thank you for the great info! I would've liked to to see a mention of eye "stretching" exercises. I think this is a thing they do in schools in some Asian countries like Japan. I'd guess that taking periodic short breaks from looking at the screen is one mitigation measure, and that doing a quick eye stretch routine is another. The routine also seems to give a slight boost to alertness and fatigue. This is what I remember of it and occasionally perform: Without moving your head, look all the way to the left, then all the way to the right, briefly pausing at each side and not rushing the movement, and do that X number of times. Then look all the way up and down X times. Then looking all the way to one side, slowly move towards looking at the top of your FOV, always aiming to look at the edge of your FOV, and continue this all the way around in a circle a few times, then repeat in the opposite direction. Another thing I have heard of is that you should try and focus your eyes on something far away from you for 30 seconds every once in a while. Any thoughts on this and what proper implementation of these stretches would be or if you're aware of different routines?
This is the most realistic recommendation video I have ever seen on youtube. The ultimate highlight is at 8:07. I will demand of all my friends to watch this video. Please make a short version (2 min) of this video where you focus on only risks and prevention. This is probably the most important video in our internet and smartphone time to prevent the population from going sight handicapped.
Thank you so much Antonio! This video was so informative and destroyed all of the misconceptions I'd been fed as a kid about spending too much time on screens haha
@@nonsudunk it's probably about how the eye problems occur. It's not the screens itself, it's that you're looking at a close things and focusing too much for a long period of time. It really doesn't matter whether it's TVs, computers, phones, or books. The screen is not the problem, the behavior surrounding it is. ~~though if you spend enough time in front of screens that your parents are concerned, definitely should go check how much you actually are using it, and if your eyes get enough rest~~. Usually parents can be overly concerned, but it's better than being careless and ruining your eyes. Also, "if used wrong" is such a broad statement it works for everything ahahah. Forks can blind you if you stab yourself in the eye too~
I love this guy's voice I can listen to him talk all day long about anything and everything :-) actually I've been a systems administrator for about 40 years now and I sit at a desk surrounded by four computer monitors which I'm constantly looking into all day long and then of course I come home I do some work on my laptop and then I'm on my phone doing things and my eyes are a mess. I never attributed the worsening eyesight to dryness. But I'm going to take all of his suggestions and hope that I get some relief. Sometimes my ice burns so much I can't look at the screen cuz it literally feels like I'm looking into the open door of a nuclear reactor. That's when I get up and walk away for 10 or 15 minutes. But yeah this is what they call progress I guess. Thank you for the video Antonio
Some really interesting facts here especially about the blinking. I started having problems with my eyes when I started working on computers in addition to undiagnosed longsightedness. Ouch!
Love the 20:20:20 rule. Gonna try to adopt that! Immediately feeling super grateful I set my studio desk looking out through a large window to trees and nature. (shame it's night here right now!) Gonna make it much easier to get myself in the habit!
Wow...that last tip about the monitor looking a bit up changed the way I do stuff at my PC forever. It feels like the space has been warped for good. Thanks a lot doc 👌
*Ditto!!* Even though I know it’s more of a niche topic, which causes it to not get the kind of “foot traffic” that other topics/channels get… I’m still genuinely shocked at how low his subscriber and viewer numbers are-given his effortlessly charismatic personality in front of the camera, the quality of his videos and the way he breaks the information down, so that people like me-(who have zero optometry knowledge/experience) can even understand and learn from it! ☺️👍
Great explanation. I have a question about the "computer glasses" you mentioned. Are they regular glasses with diopters or one of those marketed computer glasses without any? I've heard mixed reviews for those. I have dry eyes and my vision is best in the morning, and gets worse throughout the day, so I was looking at some remedies besides the 20/20/20 rule and blinking more often.
Good advice to do with using specific lenses for working at the recommended screen positioning (very similar to my setup at home). I generally prefer to use a pair that are specifically arranged for focussing at roughly that distance with fixed focus. For other things I wear a progressive pair that are good for close up paper reading, intermediate, and long distance. However, they are not optimal for intermediate distance screen work as the horizontal in-focus angle is quite small. The specific reading glasses are better at that working position. It is then possible to scan around the screen without moving one’s head at all - I.e. in a natural fashion, rather than things being out of focus through parts of the progressive lenses, especially in the intermediate zone.
I'm so glad I found you Antonio. You are so absolutely thorough and extremely knowledgeable. You are in my opinion the most inspirational and helpful eye care professional I've seen and heard on the tube or in real life. . Thank you so very much for your generosity and willingness to help us all make educated choices. You've helped me so much i now have confidence in what and why I purchase a particular pair of glasses. Thank you so much Antonio. If you live in Australia I need to turn my family on to you. I'm in the USA
Thank so much Antonio for this very informative video. One of the best I have seen recently. I will share it to my yoga students, young and old ones. Great job !!!
this video actually answers why i usually hear other people complaining about monitors hurting their eyes while i usually have no problems at all even though im regularly on for more than 10 hr a day. I actually sit lower than my monitor, my eyes are about inline with the bottom 1/4 so im usually looking up which i would assume is about the same as looking down. Also my monitors are about 28-30 inches away, much further than even the recommended 20".
Hi, I've a few queries. 1. When I look at any text in a screen with dark mode on i.e black background and white text, I see repetition of word above a specific word. Not like full double. But above the original text in screen I see a little bit blurred out and transparent version of the same text. 2. Not only in screen but also in outer world when I look into text on top of buildings at night same happens. I've found out that whenever I try to see brighter text/objects in dark background this happens 3. I went to doctor and I were suggested to use artificial tears. I've been using for 3 months but not much improvement 4. One side note. Even though I live in a 3rd world country where "treatment" is not properly considered a basic need, after collecting money, I went to the country's one of the top doctor. While I was mumbling my problems, he shouted out and asked me to tell any specific problems which is very serious. If I knew what is serious or not would I go to his place. Anyways eventually after telling my condition he suggested artificial tears. Due to his rough behaviors I went to the government's Opthalmology institute after many days this test and that test they couldn't find out any specific glass which I need to use or not. Eventually suggested the same artifical tears. Anyways, do you have any suggestion regarding my issue? At least what is the name of my condition. When I use artificial tears I usually get bullied by my friend.
Thanks for your full and easy explanation! With all my respect, I can't agree with you completely. The one source of pain in the eyes is the way how GPU renders a picture on a screen. I can easily use my laptop from 2018 and my iPhone SE (1 generation), but none from laptops from 2023 (windows laptops and Macs) are not comfortable for me. Now I hurt my eyes badly with a modern laptops testing and I feel so much pain that I can't use my iPhone 13 and a laptop from 2021. But a laptop from 2018 and iPhone SE can be used now 24/7 without any eye strain. How can we explain that? Besides you should consider the PWM technology that is used in most OLED displays now and its harmful affection on focusing muscles. After a week of using MacBook Pro m2, my eyes lost the ability to focus at mid and long-range distances. And this symptom is completely gone after switching to other devices that don't use PWM at all. My eyes completely explored 3 times last year and it's 100% healthy. Your point that the only users are responsible for their computer eye syndrome development, but in reality, the computer manufacturer also does a lot of things that also increase the load on your eyes
Hi Antonio. Owing to my complicated work nature, Do you think ultrawide curved screens will help any better, (instead of flat ones) specially in case of astigmatism? Given one is taking all other good measures in practice. Please guide. Thank you.
Thank you! I was experiencing blurry vision, and I went to see an optometrist, mentioning that I knew it was due to more than normal watching videos online. She told me it wasn't due to computer overuse, but aging!
I don't usually leave comments if I have nothing specific to discuss, but I have to say this was very informational, clear, and well-made. (+ No sponsors, which is getting rare for this kind of content. Of course, I would be glad if you get sponsors, but purely informational videos like this one feel really good without).
@@agps4418 A spoon of sugar makes the water sugary. Imagine he would be selling these anti-bluelight glasses that are sold for this kind of eye strains but are ineffective (they only help with falling asleep), would the advertiser allow him to explain it doesn't work? No. So it would impact the whole content. Many of these videos are made purely to sell products, and if it's selling something, it's normal to doubt about all the infos. Here there is no doubt about the sincerity of it all.
@@Raskass-td8lm it's up to him to get sponsors. i'm sure you wouldn't be dumb enough to believe a single youtube video over anything anyway. a truthful video will have other references backing them up on the web. and it's the viewers duty to do research for their own sake, instead of blaming inaccuracies of sponsored contents on a free platform.
Antonio, thanks. You have mentioned that glasses help you with working for longer. I understand you might not want to recommend any brands, but could you provide with some links to glasses/lenses that you might recommend. How to get the right ones. Is it a special surface/cover? Thank you!
I've been a heavy computer user for 40 years. At 48 I have accelerated presbyopia which started around 44. I now only use my "normal" far sighted glasses for driving these days. I have to squint (smaller aperature) to read with these normal glasses. I noticed this week, that while tired I struggle to focus on my phone or text on the TV. Might be time for an upgrade. Since starting to use "reading glasses" for the computer, I have also tended to make the screen scale and font size much larger and sit back away from the screen. Until I started using them, I had a tendency to hunch up close to the screen with my chin propped on my hand.... which didn't do wonders for my neck or wrists, which are also showing signs of acclerated "wear and tear". My GP put it to me, regarding occupational health risks, "Well, the lads working on the roads don't feel it in their 20's either, but they do feel it in the 40s 50s and 60s."
It’s like the best gaming setup with a PC could be to be sitting 6 meters away from your large TV with your controller or it could also be good for productivity applications for longer periods! :)
Oh, that angle of the gaze. I bought a tablet and use it like a book. Instead of sitting in front of a monitor. With eye drops I really feel better. Now I have a better explanation why :)
05:13 -- I appreciate the eye-drop suggestion, but that opens up new questions for me. How many drops should I use on each eye, and how often can I use eyedrops? If I feel the need, can I use two eyedrops on each eye every hour? Is that too much? Too little? Is there a limit beyond which eyedrops would actually start to harm my eyes? How do I know what that limit is? Is it the same for everyone? Also, at the drugstore I noticed there are several different types of eyedrops, even gel. It's so confusing. How do I even know which type is right for me? Do you have a video about this? There's just a lot to unpack, and I feel like knowledge, generally, is like a Lost episode: every answer you get leads you to even more questions!
what i do know is you only need 1 drop for any eye drops administered. there's no space for more than that on your eyeball surface, the rest is just gonna spill.
8:57 what are your computer glasses? Full correction with blue-light filter or simply like 1.00D SPH weaker (whatever you need to only see clearly up to the screen and not beyond)?
@@BattousaiHBr Yeah I would rather just use Night Light in Windows to get rid of it completely (blue turns black). I just wanted to know what this optometrist uses.
@@tywald no, i mean there's no real reason to avoid blue light like the plague. it's not harmful. if you're worried about sleep, if you're not already having sleep issues then there's no reason to worry.
Really informative. Please make a video on whether laptop use is better or having a laptop connected to an external monitor is useful so we don't strain our eyes.
Hi! Great video. Any guidelines for how much light in the room? My GF and I have this (friendly) argument about if you can be working on a computer in a dark room of if you should turn the lights on when it starts to get dark. Thanks
What "computer glasses" do you use? Are they blue light filtering glasses..? What type of eye doctor should one go to for complete computer-related diagnosis & treatment? The topics of blue light and nutrition seem to have been totally ignored in this video...
The real issue is LED light. And NO, its' not about blue light. I've worked for 15 years with CRT and CCFL monitors without any problems. Then when I bought my first led monitor I immediately felt eye and head pain. Now years later, I have to buy second hand CCFL monitors to be able to work. I still buy some when I find good ones on second hand websites. I cannot buy brand new monitors. I've already tested 2 led monitors supposed to be "low blue light", or low eye strain etc, but it doesn't work. Thousand of people have the same problem, some forums are full of their experiences but no one has ever found a solution.
Thanks for the tips about blinking, tilting the computer screen and the 20/20/20 rule. I sometime get dry eyes and eye fatigue after long screen sessions.
Great video. Wondering about the point about the eye lens harding over time. Can this be slowed if glasses for computers had lenses that made the eyes correct to “infirmity” focus and not “50cm away” focus? This would likely mess up the focus for looking around the room, but help with not training the eye muscles during computer use
Hey Hakon, thank you for asking. There’s strong evidence to suggest that it’s mostly is the crystalline lens aging. And therefore age is the biggest determinant of a lack of accommodation. And anecdotally I feel the same way.
I don’t have any eyesight problems. Is there a type of eyeglasses that lets me focus on things up close without “accommodation” ie without working the eye muscles as much? Would it be beneficial to wear things when working closely for extended periods?
Great video, I work a lot in front of the computer and therefore I try to improve all aspects. Lightbar, vertical mouse and keyboard, good quality monitor, good quality seat, and of course the position is also important. I miss the absence of the monitor to adjust itself according to the background light, constantly adjusting the brightness manually is difficult. The question still remains, if I have a monitor 50 cm from my eyes and if I sit straight, where should the center of my eyes be shown on the monitor? The picture stated 15 degrees downward is ideal? And there should be exactly the center of the monitor?
Ironically watching this video means staring at a digital display for 11 minutes ... still very multifaceted and comprehensive, so thanks! It explains why, when I was growing up, my mom's insistence that I not sit so close to the TV, lol ... it does make me wonder about long term/permanent damage though.
My eyes are so dry, to itch them, all I need to do is just move them around. Furthermore, I use the hot washcloth trick and if its bad, the diluted lemon juice in the eye trick. The latter is more rare for me to do, but my eyes water like crazy. (I’m aware I’m irritating the eye with the lemon.) I had this as a child from a young age, and still have it 6 decades later. It has remained pretty stable, not getting worse nor better.
I face quite an extreme amount of eye strain but that's probably due to prolonged computer use. I do hesitate to get my eyes tested though. I know I am not exactly 6/6 but I see well enough. I just don't want my eyes to get used to glasses but eventually if the strain remains at that level, I might have to. I have combated it partially by using the techniques you outlined: distance (probably too much distance in my case), viewing angle, using paper printouts, minimal phone use, using paper to write on in case I just am thinking and am not sure about what to write and only being on screen when I really need to type, and using audio as much as I can. My productivity might be better with glasses, they probably will be mild correction, but my morale will suffer a lot and I will face productivity loss from managing a new accessory.
I've been trying to find any info on this topic but never found anything. Thank you TH-cam for recommending me this video. Every time I look at my monitor, my eyes want to shut a little more but when I look outside my window, my eyes act fine. I've been off work then I got this issue. I play games daily or lookup stuff on my computer. I wear glasses and have astigmatism. 26 male.
I would like to add the fact that using a higher refresh rate monitor also helps not getting your eyes puke because of the stuttery motion at 60 Hz, especially when scrolling.
probably not, but considering LASIK is about scraping off the cornea, I'd guess we have plenty of it before any major complication, unless you sit in front of an air current all day every day.
There's a problem with how modern Operating Systems render the picture. I can sit in front of Windows 7 PC for hours and don't feel any eye strain. And I also can't stand more than 30 minutes using Windows 10/11 on THE SAME hardware. I quickly start feeling eye strain, dry eyes, nausea etc.
Very good presentation! Enjoyed your thorough, yet succinct delivery. I need someone like you teaching in our program...fancy a trip to Vietnam anytime soon?
I was wondering about the 20-20-20 rule: - Is looking out a window count? How unobstructed should your view out the window be? Clear view or make sure there is nothing around like a shelf of plants? If the window is dirt does that matter? - Instead of viewing something 20 feet away, can you just close your eyes for a period of time?
I think it depends on focal distance. So long as your eyes are focused on something that is approximately 20 ft away, you're good. So looking out a window counts. Make sure your focus is such that any obstructed parts are blurry rather than the things 20 ft away. I imagine you can close your eyes as well, but if you focus your eyes as if they're staring at something 20 ft away, it should provide a similar benefit.
Hi Antonio & thanks for the awesome & very informative educational video. What type of lenses (brands I mean) that you do recommend for customers to prevent them having the so called Computer vision syndrome?
Hi Antonio, interesting video topic. Does long-term incomplete blinks result in cornea damage typically? And can that be healed naturally? Thanks for sharing
Good question! ANY damage long term is never good. And the most natural way of healing it is prevention + routinely doing the best for the eyes (i.e. blinking more frequently + hot compresses)
Thank you so much. Very useful and informative.. Would like to ask one question, what is consequences of people who live very hot or coastal areas who don't use sunglasses Thanks
Perth is considered one of the hottest climates in the world and I personally find a lot of pinguecula/pterygiums here as well as meibomian gland dysfunction from the sand/dust that’s around
How does computer work optimizing glasses work? I'd like to know more about that if possible. Thank you very much for this video, I will definatly benifit from this knowledge!
probably by giving you the wanted focal point at that distance instead of relying on your eye muscles, that way your eye can stay fully relaxed. you're probably likely to benefit most if your use is inappropriate (too close).
I feel like I have the opposite problem... My left eye is +1 and my right eye +4, which has made my brain "ignore" my right eye. I have peripheral vision with it, but without glasses (and sometimes with) I cannot read with only my right. A few years back I started being unable to see far away, and if I really tried to focus I would start seeing double. It is like my right eye won't collaborate with my left. I talked to my optometrist and got a referral to the eye doctor, but since it is only long distance (think driving on the highway) they were unable to test it. I also cannot see neon signs or the moon when it's bright anymore. It's just blurry or double with chromatic aberration (you've ever seen the moon and its orange and blue twin next to it? I have. Frequently). I'm really sad about it.
I keep a bit of single use Refresh Plus drops (recommended by an optometrist I go to) next to me when I'm on my computer. I put a single drop in every now and then. I've pretty much always had red eyes to some degree, these drops really help me.
I use software to remove blue colors at night (redshift in linux, night light in windows, eye comfort shield on android), it's much more enjoyable and helps me sleep. I get most eye strain playing certain games that require attention, then I forget to blink almost entirely. In contrast, programming doesn't give me much eye strain because that's another kind of attention.
For me what made the difference is the bluelight filter on the computer and dark theme everywhere even in websites that don't support it thanks to the browser extension DarkReader.
my work setup as an editor is monitor closer and big TV in distance, so they are subjectively the same size. I found my eyes started fatiguing and needed a "warm-up" in the morning until I could start focusing on stuff. since I did this setup with changing focus between screens depending on my work position, I have that problem no more.
~ 5:20 - Ah, this might be one of the reasons why I find reading on Kindle much more comfortable than on the best of monitors. Also, I prefer to sit relatively high when in front of computer monitor.
Hello doc What can you say about eyes parcially open when asleep😅… and I noticed that my eyes are particularly dry as veins are visible…Is regular use of eye drops recommended? I wear glasses for near sightedness btw…I tried contact lenses but couldn’t last longer than 2 hours😢
7:45 I find it more difficult to focus on far objects instead. Spending many hours per day in front of computer screens, having electronics (tiny components) as a hobby, and having a job where most work is done close to me will probably not be the best for my eyes.
I'm near sighted in both eyes but to a much greater extent in my right eye. I use my computer constantly, and I always found that using my glasses when on my phone or computer would give me a splitting headache after a very brief amount of time. I'm gonna pay more closer attention to my blinking from now on, but this all does explain why my eyes don't feel as bad normally
it's weird for me. my dad and 2 of my sisters have glasses or contacts. me and my oldest sister do not and our eyes seem to be perfect, being able to read license plates from further away than most people. yet we have spend and i still do spend a lot of time behind a screen. i have no eye irritation, blurring, headaches, etc.
Save 11 Minutes: (if you are in a rush)
3:57 Airflow ( @Jairo Espinel )
-don't sit directly in air conditioning
-remove airborne particles (dust, pollen)
5:17 Dryness
- If you can't keep your eyes open comfortably for 10 seconds,
- use eyedrops or hot compress (moisture)
5:30 (lower) Viewing angle
- reading below eye level preserves water by reducing exposed surface area
7:20 Proximity
- closer objects --> more work
- younger people have an easier time reading up close
8:00 20-20-20 Rule
- every 20min = look 20ft away for 20sec
10:10 Optimal Monitor Placement
- 20 inches away
- 15 degrees below eye level
Take care of your eyes as they will only get more difficult with age. Utilize the 20-20-20 rule and optimize your workspace to reduce exposure. If you feel your eyes burning, be sure to use eyedrops or warm compress!
thank you
I hate TH-cam for encouraging creators to stretch and drag their videos to +10 minutes (many admit it), wasting our time when the video could easily be like 5 minutes.
@@nonsudunk If you're talking about other videos, then yeah I agree. But not for this video; I don't think this video was dragged out. The extra info may not be relevant to you but it will be for others.
BS reaction; the whole video was interesting.
nah this was a huge waste of time in terms of relevant information per time
he repeated the same words like 4 times in a row in just the first 3 minutes
Thank you Antonio - I am at the computer all day and do get eye fatigue, blurred vision, even headaches. My Optometrist has told me for years that I have dry eyes - I could not really understand this too much as my eyes tend to water a lot - I am not crying . . .
You’re welcome Cheryl, you may benefit from some hot compresses if they are watering 😁👍
Excessive tearing is actually one of the signs and phase of dry eyes . The reason behind it is that our brain will stimulate the lacrimal gland to produce more tears to relieve the dryness from your eye. After that phase of tearing then comes the actual drying of the eyes.
@@nestorenriquez3284 Never thought of it that way, thank you.
So how long the blurry eyes stay???? Does digital eye strain can last long? And what did you do to combat it?? Please tell. Thank you.
@@AntonioTheOptom
Hi Antonio,
Is it possible can we completely cure the eye tiredness and pain, but still work on the computer?
Any light arrangements from back ground and top or anything you can recommend?
Thanks
I'm a graphic designer and I've been doing my work digitally for almost 7 years now (plus the fact that I use my PC for personal stuff daily). When I was at graphic design school, I remember we had our screens tilted and lowered, almost touching the top of the desk and our chairs were slightly set higher so we could sit somewhat above the screens. In addition, our professor always told us that our eyes shouldn't be positioned directly at the center of the screen but slightly above it, kind of similar to the way one would comfortably read a book at library or when sitting on a tilted desk that's ideal for drawing.
It was really comfortable doing my work with that setting until I actually got a job... I would always adjust my screen and desk to what I found comfortable and easy and my boss would *always* undo everything the next day and scold me about it. He used to tell me that my position was "wrong" so he would set the screen way higher than what it was comfortable to be doing 8 hour work on and also told me to lower my chair because "it's not flattering" to be sitting that high (I never understood what that meant????) so my eyes would get strained from staring up constantly on that screen would turn red. After some time of getting tired with his bs he finally admitted that the reason he kept setting my screen that high and me sitting lower was so he can also look at my screen from his desk without me blocking the view.... not to mention that I already have eye problems like myopia and astigmatism, this would leave me with a sense of dizziness and difficulty focusing throughout the day. I'm glad though that I left that workplace behind me, for this but for a lot of other reasons as well.
What a telling set of events. Boss sounded like a dickhead
why would your boss scold you about your preference?
@@unsanitizedbabywipes6154 if you read the story, the boss scolded them because the boss wanted to be able to see their screen from their office's point of view. please read the whole story
I would have resigned right away after hearing such a stupid explanation. He's compromising an employee's health just because he's insecure. Fuck him.
@@knie1172 Might have been referring to if she was wearing a skirt, if so then it would be partially understandable.
I built a monitor setup that has two rows of monitors, one at eye level and the second row above eye level. After a few months of use I started having almost daily eye pain. Your explanation about looking up stressing and drying the eye more makes a lot of sense.
i've never blinked more times in a span of 11 minutes and 39 seconds
I'm interested what you think about VR. The screen is projected at virtual infinity, and the objects being looked at are at different directions, so eyes move. Still, blinking less is a thing since games are games, and working in VR is still staring at a screen.
@NiCat07 Yep it does use distortion to make eyes have to move to focus. Also, it's projected at infinity using lenses. So it's basically like holding an infinitely large phone at infinite distance from your eyes. Well in theory, if the lenses were perfect. Practically they project the image at some distance between hundreds of meters and infinity, depending on the quality of the lense. Static dublicated images do cause a lot of strain since all distances are treated equal, causing the eyes to always point at it directly. That's usually called flat VR, by people who use vorpX or something and the game doesn't support full 3d projection.
So when using vr headset its like looking to the moon?
@@ichosolemanuel6048 Staring at the moon for extended periods of time. So yea eyestrain is still an issue. But less than a monitor close by. I feel less strain using VR for long periods than playing games on a monitor, but that maaay be because my monitor is far too close to me.
@@ristopoho824 wow i always thought its bad for the eyes but its actually the best option out of all devices
@@ichosolemanuel6048 Nah. You can't take your eyes off from the screen for some seconds, so it's not good either. It's probably in the 'needs more research' camp. I have only experience from my own eyes, and it feels less harmful, but that also is only, "it feel". So yea, less harmful than you would think, but not sure of long term effects.
Watching a computer screen to learn about Watching a Computer Screen.
This is one of very few BS-free videos on eye strain when using a computer screen. Perhaps you could also have mentioned "focus hunting", but that was mainly an issue with old CRT monitors.
what is focus hunting?
@@0q2628 If you try to focus on a blurry or flickering image, such as on old CRT displays, the "autofocus" mechanism of our visual system continuously shifts accommodation distance, trying (and failing) to find the perfect focus (similar to autofocus in your camera or you have several differently spaced objects in the frame, or try to focus through dirty window or curtains.) This causes fatigue of tiny muscles that squeeze the lens in order to shorten its focal length.
@@bazoo513 All I could find on the topic just now was people adjusting the focus of a CRT. Would this still apply to non-blurry modern LCD/OLED strobed displays? And does increasing the refresh rate/strobe rate reduce this effect?
All modern VR headsets strobe their display(s) to drastically reduce motion blur. Active 3D displays and some gaming monitors also use strobing for that reason.
OLD CRT displays were worse than just that. #Radiation lol
@@rohansampat1995 Another myth. Electron beam does, in theory, produce some bremsstrahlung in soft X-ray range, but tube glass absorbs it all. I measured it myself.
As for low frequency EM radiation, it was mostly invention by Nokia, in order to promote their "low radiation" monitors.
I was blinking like a maniac throughout the entire video
I've been a full-time rather obsessed programmer (working many hours per day) for more than 40 years now, and I'm at the age which my eyesight would be fading anyway. Habits I picked up early which have probably helped have been: (1) to make a point to keep blinking fairly often, (2) make sure I have some light on the wall behind my computers lit up, so I'm not staring at a bright screen with a very dark background, (3) occasionally looking up and running my eyes along the intersection of the walls and the ceiling, and (4) Turning off overhead fluorescent lights while working on the computer.
That fourth one is almost certainly not as important now as it was back when my computer monitors were CRT's. There are interactions between the flickering of fluorescent lighting and CRT refresh rates which many people will not notice, but which add to the strain on your eyes.
Thank you for the great info! I would've liked to to see a mention of eye "stretching" exercises. I think this is a thing they do in schools in some Asian countries like Japan. I'd guess that taking periodic short breaks from looking at the screen is one mitigation measure, and that doing a quick eye stretch routine is another. The routine also seems to give a slight boost to alertness and fatigue.
This is what I remember of it and occasionally perform: Without moving your head, look all the way to the left, then all the way to the right, briefly pausing at each side and not rushing the movement, and do that X number of times. Then look all the way up and down X times. Then looking all the way to one side, slowly move towards looking at the top of your FOV, always aiming to look at the edge of your FOV, and continue this all the way around in a circle a few times, then repeat in the opposite direction.
Another thing I have heard of is that you should try and focus your eyes on something far away from you for 30 seconds every once in a while.
Any thoughts on this and what proper implementation of these stretches would be or if you're aware of different routines?
I’ve heard some professional e-sports players doing 20-20-20, every 20 minutes look away 20 feet for 20 seconds
Now I can't stop blinking consciously to hydrate my eyeballs...
This is the most realistic recommendation video I have ever seen on youtube. The ultimate highlight is at 8:07. I will demand of all my friends to watch this video.
Please make a short version (2 min) of this video where you focus on only risks and prevention. This is probably the most important video in our internet and smartphone time to prevent the population from going sight handicapped.
Thank you so much Antonio! This video was so informative and destroyed all of the misconceptions I'd been fed as a kid about spending too much time on screens haha
Which misconceptions did you have?
@@nonsudunk every parent seems to say that computers cause blindness.
@@anires1195 Well, technically if used wrong they can blind you
@@nonsudunk it's probably about how the eye problems occur. It's not the screens itself, it's that you're looking at a close things and focusing too much for a long period of time.
It really doesn't matter whether it's TVs, computers, phones, or books. The screen is not the problem, the behavior surrounding it is. ~~though if you spend enough time in front of screens that your parents are concerned, definitely should go check how much you actually are using it, and if your eyes get enough rest~~. Usually parents can be overly concerned, but it's better than being careless and ruining your eyes.
Also, "if used wrong" is such a broad statement it works for everything ahahah. Forks can blind you if you stab yourself in the eye too~
@@jamhamtime1878 been a gamer since 5 yr old,15 years later and my eyes is as clear as it usually is.
I love this guy's voice I can listen to him talk all day long about anything and everything :-) actually I've been a systems administrator for about 40 years now and I sit at a desk surrounded by four computer monitors which I'm constantly looking into all day long and then of course I come home I do some work on my laptop and then I'm on my phone doing things and my eyes are a mess. I never attributed the worsening eyesight to dryness. But I'm going to take all of his suggestions and hope that I get some relief. Sometimes my ice burns so much I can't look at the screen cuz it literally feels like I'm looking into the open door of a nuclear reactor. That's when I get up and walk away for 10 or 15 minutes. But yeah this is what they call progress I guess. Thank you for the video Antonio
Some really interesting facts here especially about the blinking. I started having problems with my eyes when I started working on computers in addition to undiagnosed longsightedness. Ouch!
Same here! 😂
Hi Black,
How are your eyes?
Still +3 Diopters?
Damn, this is such an underrated channel 😄
Glad you think so ! 😁😁
Forreal
Really nice "hit like" call to action. CTAs don't often persuade me, but that one did.
I agree! It was so polite and sweet.
Love the 20:20:20 rule. Gonna try to adopt that! Immediately feeling super grateful I set my studio desk looking out through a large window to trees and nature. (shame it's night here right now!) Gonna make it much easier to get myself in the habit!
Wow...that last tip about the monitor looking a bit up changed the way I do stuff at my PC forever. It feels like the space has been warped for good. Thanks a lot doc 👌
i just stumbled across your channel and was stunned as i saw the views... your videos are so well made and the content is great! keep it going 💪
*Ditto!!*
Even though I know it’s more of a niche topic, which causes it to not get the kind of “foot traffic” that other topics/channels get…
I’m still genuinely shocked at how low his subscriber and viewer numbers are-given his effortlessly charismatic personality in front of the camera, the quality of his videos and the way he breaks the information down, so that people like me-(who have zero optometry knowledge/experience) can even understand and learn from it!
☺️👍
Thank you so much for this information. I have had chronic dry eye all my life and any knowledge about it is greatly appreciated
I don’t know about anyone else…but my entire life, I’ve never been more aware of and deliberate with my blinking-as I was during this whole video!!🤣💝
Great video, very detailed overview and easy to understand.
Really appreciate you including the conversions to cms and metres etc.
It's refreshing to hear your Kiwi accent as a fellow Aussie! The way you talk is really clear and easy to follow also. Thanks for this video!
Great explanation. I have a question about the "computer glasses" you mentioned. Are they regular glasses with diopters or one of those marketed computer glasses without any? I've heard mixed reviews for those. I have dry eyes and my vision is best in the morning, and gets worse throughout the day, so I was looking at some remedies besides the 20/20/20 rule and blinking more often.
Good advice to do with using specific lenses for working at the recommended screen positioning (very similar to my setup at home). I generally prefer to use a pair that are specifically arranged for focussing at roughly that distance with fixed focus. For other things I wear a progressive pair that are good for close up paper reading, intermediate, and long distance. However, they are not optimal for intermediate distance screen work as the horizontal in-focus angle is quite small. The specific reading glasses are better at that working position. It is then possible to scan around the screen without moving one’s head at all - I.e. in a natural fashion, rather than things being out of focus through parts of the progressive lenses, especially in the intermediate zone.
I'm so glad I found you Antonio. You are so absolutely thorough and extremely knowledgeable. You are in my opinion the most inspirational and helpful eye care professional I've seen and heard on the tube or in real life. . Thank you so very much for your generosity and willingness to help us all make educated choices. You've helped me so much i now have confidence in what and why I purchase a particular pair of glasses. Thank you so much Antonio. If you live in Australia I need to turn my family on to you. I'm in the USA
Thank so much Antonio for this very informative video. One of the best I have seen recently. I will share it to my yoga students, young and old ones. Great job !!!
this video actually answers why i usually hear other people complaining about monitors hurting their eyes while i usually have no problems at all even though im regularly on for more than 10 hr a day. I actually sit lower than my monitor, my eyes are about inline with the bottom 1/4 so im usually looking up which i would assume is about the same as looking down. Also my monitors are about 28-30 inches away, much further than even the recommended 20".
Optometrist watching this video, really helpful when educating patients on CVS
Hi, I've a few queries.
1. When I look at any text in a screen with dark mode on i.e black background and white text, I see repetition of word above a specific word. Not like full double. But above the original text in screen I see a little bit blurred out and transparent version of the same text.
2. Not only in screen but also in outer world when I look into text on top of buildings at night same happens. I've found out that whenever I try to see brighter text/objects in dark background this happens
3. I went to doctor and I were suggested to use artificial tears. I've been using for 3 months but not much improvement
4. One side note. Even though I live in a 3rd world country where "treatment" is not properly considered a basic need, after collecting money, I went to the country's one of the top doctor. While I was mumbling my problems, he shouted out and asked me to tell any specific problems which is very serious. If I knew what is serious or not would I go to his place. Anyways eventually after telling my condition he suggested artificial tears.
Due to his rough behaviors I went to the government's Opthalmology institute after many days this test and that test they couldn't find out any specific glass which I need to use or not. Eventually suggested the same artifical tears.
Anyways, do you have any suggestion regarding my issue? At least what is the name of my condition. When I use artificial tears I usually get bullied by my friend.
Anybody else's eyes hurt now?
Great video, really informative and thorough while still being concise.
I'm so happy I found this channel!! THank you for creating this content, you are amazing!!
Thanks for your full and easy explanation!
With all my respect, I can't agree with you completely. The one source of pain in the eyes is the way how GPU renders a picture on a screen. I can easily use my laptop from 2018 and my iPhone SE (1 generation), but none from laptops from 2023 (windows laptops and Macs) are not comfortable for me. Now I hurt my eyes badly with a modern laptops testing and I feel so much pain that I can't use my iPhone 13 and a laptop from 2021.
But a laptop from 2018 and iPhone SE can be used now 24/7 without any eye strain.
How can we explain that?
Besides you should consider the PWM technology that is used in most OLED displays now and its harmful affection on focusing muscles. After a week of using MacBook Pro m2, my eyes lost the ability to focus at mid and long-range distances. And this symptom is completely gone after switching to other devices that don't use PWM at all.
My eyes completely explored 3 times last year and it's 100% healthy.
Your point that the only users are responsible for their computer eye syndrome development, but in reality, the computer manufacturer also does a lot of things that also increase the load on your eyes
Hi Antonio.
Owing to my complicated work nature, Do you think ultrawide curved screens will help any better, (instead of flat ones) specially in case of astigmatism? Given one is taking all other good measures in practice. Please guide. Thank you.
Thank you! I was experiencing blurry vision, and I went to see an optometrist, mentioning that I knew it was due to more than normal watching videos online. She told me it wasn't due to computer overuse, but aging!
I don't usually leave comments if I have nothing specific to discuss, but I have to say this was very informational, clear, and well-made. (+ No sponsors, which is getting rare for this kind of content. Of course, I would be glad if you get sponsors, but purely informational videos like this one feel really good without).
so, if there's a sponsor, all the information above is what, less accurate?
@@agps4418 No, just diluted in advertising information which is indeed not factual.
@@Raskass-td8lm well, a spoon of sugar would be diluted in a glass of water. but a glass of sugar won't be diluted in a spoon of water
@@agps4418 A spoon of sugar makes the water sugary. Imagine he would be selling these anti-bluelight glasses that are sold for this kind of eye strains but are ineffective (they only help with falling asleep), would the advertiser allow him to explain it doesn't work? No. So it would impact the whole content. Many of these videos are made purely to sell products, and if it's selling something, it's normal to doubt about all the infos. Here there is no doubt about the sincerity of it all.
@@Raskass-td8lm it's up to him to get sponsors. i'm sure you wouldn't be dumb enough to believe a single youtube video over anything anyway. a truthful video will have other references backing them up on the web. and it's the viewers duty to do research for their own sake, instead of blaming inaccuracies of sponsored contents on a free platform.
Great point about the monitor distance. I’m going to try that to relieve eye strain. Too much laptop time.
Antonio, thanks. You have mentioned that glasses help you with working for longer. I understand you might not want to recommend any brands, but could you provide with some links to glasses/lenses that you might recommend. How to get the right ones. Is it a special surface/cover? Thank you!
Color settings on so called Compfort-View takes out a good portion of blue light which is also a relieve for the retina
I've been a heavy computer user for 40 years. At 48 I have accelerated presbyopia which started around 44. I now only use my "normal" far sighted glasses for driving these days. I have to squint (smaller aperature) to read with these normal glasses. I noticed this week, that while tired I struggle to focus on my phone or text on the TV. Might be time for an upgrade. Since starting to use "reading glasses" for the computer, I have also tended to make the screen scale and font size much larger and sit back away from the screen. Until I started using them, I had a tendency to hunch up close to the screen with my chin propped on my hand.... which didn't do wonders for my neck or wrists, which are also showing signs of acclerated "wear and tear".
My GP put it to me, regarding occupational health risks, "Well, the lads working on the roads don't feel it in their 20's either, but they do feel it in the 40s 50s and 60s."
I wonder if mine is the first real cohort to have grown up with a home computer, in addition to doing it as a career.
My eyes won't stop watering today and suddenly this pops in my feed. I must have said something about it out loud and Google heard me.
Ah, technology...! A world where this is normal.
Thank you for the Video!
Would you recommend eye Drops for Daily Use for everyone ? Or only if you have These Symptoms ?
Fantastic video!!! If I can put my monitor more than 20 inches away should I do that? Or should I just leave it at 20 inches?
It’s like the best gaming setup with a PC could be to be sitting 6 meters away from your large TV with your controller or it could also be good for productivity applications for longer periods! :)
could you make a video about the optometric test procedure. What do you do in turn and how do you test?
Sounds like a fun idea 😁
I would like to watch this too
Oh, that angle of the gaze. I bought a tablet and use it like a book. Instead of sitting in front of a monitor. With eye drops I really feel better. Now I have a better explanation why :)
05:13 -- I appreciate the eye-drop suggestion, but that opens up new questions for me. How many drops should I use on each eye, and how often can I use eyedrops? If I feel the need, can I use two eyedrops on each eye every hour? Is that too much? Too little? Is there a limit beyond which eyedrops would actually start to harm my eyes? How do I know what that limit is? Is it the same for everyone? Also, at the drugstore I noticed there are several different types of eyedrops, even gel. It's so confusing. How do I even know which type is right for me? Do you have a video about this? There's just a lot to unpack, and I feel like knowledge, generally, is like a Lost episode: every answer you get leads you to even more questions!
what i do know is you only need 1 drop for any eye drops administered. there's no space for more than that on your eyeball surface, the rest is just gonna spill.
8:57 what are your computer glasses? Full correction with blue-light filter or simply like 1.00D SPH weaker (whatever you need to only see clearly up to the screen and not beyond)?
blue light filter is a scam.
@@BattousaiHBr Yeah I would rather just use Night Light in Windows to get rid of it completely (blue turns black).
I just wanted to know what this optometrist uses.
@@tywald no, i mean there's no real reason to avoid blue light like the plague. it's not harmful.
if you're worried about sleep, if you're not already having sleep issues then there's no reason to worry.
@@BattousaiHBr Well one thing I use "Night Light" for is to be able to look at a screen straight after waking up :P
I'm glad yt recommended this to me. Thanks for the detailed explanation and the nice video doc
Really informative. Please make a video on whether laptop use is better or having a laptop connected to an external monitor is useful so we don't strain our eyes.
Hi! Great video. Any guidelines for how much light in the room? My GF and I have this (friendly) argument about if you can be working on a computer in a dark room of if you should turn the lights on when it starts to get dark. Thanks
What "computer glasses" do you use? Are they blue light filtering glasses..? What type of eye doctor should one go to for complete computer-related diagnosis & treatment? The topics of blue light and nutrition seem to have been totally ignored in this video...
The real issue is LED light. And NO, its' not about blue light.
I've worked for 15 years with CRT and CCFL monitors without any problems. Then when I bought my first led monitor I immediately felt eye and head pain. Now years later, I have to buy second hand CCFL monitors to be able to work. I still buy some when I find good ones on second hand websites. I cannot buy brand new monitors. I've already tested 2 led monitors supposed to be "low blue light", or low eye strain etc, but it doesn't work. Thousand of people have the same problem, some forums are full of their experiences but no one has ever found a solution.
Thanks for the tips about blinking, tilting the computer screen and the 20/20/20 rule. I sometime get dry eyes and eye fatigue after long screen sessions.
Great video. Wondering about the point about the eye lens harding over time. Can this be slowed if glasses for computers had lenses that made the eyes correct to “infirmity” focus and not “50cm away” focus? This would likely mess up the focus for looking around the room, but help with not training the eye muscles during computer use
Hey Hakon, thank you for asking. There’s strong evidence to suggest that it’s mostly is the crystalline lens aging. And therefore age is the biggest determinant of a lack of accommodation. And anecdotally I feel the same way.
One of the best explanation yet. Thanks DR🤓
I don’t have any eyesight problems.
Is there a type of eyeglasses that lets me focus on things up close without “accommodation” ie without working the eye muscles as much? Would it be beneficial to wear things when working closely for extended periods?
Great video, I work a lot in front of the computer and therefore I try to improve all aspects. Lightbar, vertical mouse and keyboard, good quality monitor, good quality seat, and of course the position is also important. I miss the absence of the monitor to adjust itself according to the background light, constantly adjusting the brightness manually is difficult. The question still remains, if I have a monitor 50 cm from my eyes and if I sit straight, where should the center of my eyes be shown on the monitor? The picture stated 15 degrees downward is ideal? And there should be exactly the center of the monitor?
Ironically watching this video means staring at a digital display for 11 minutes
... still very multifaceted and comprehensive, so thanks!
It explains why, when I was growing up, my mom's insistence that I not sit so close to the TV, lol
... it does make me wonder about long term/permanent damage though.
Do the optimized glasses shorten the focus distance?
Thank you for making this video!
In my own experience, I have to turn down the brightness setting because too much glare eventually irritate my eyes.
My eyes are so dry, to itch them, all I need to do is just move them around. Furthermore, I use the hot washcloth trick and if its bad, the diluted lemon juice in the eye trick. The latter is more rare for me to do, but my eyes water like crazy. (I’m aware I’m irritating the eye with the lemon.) I had this as a child from a young age, and still have it 6 decades later. It has remained pretty stable, not getting worse nor better.
I face quite an extreme amount of eye strain but that's probably due to prolonged computer use. I do hesitate to get my eyes tested though. I know I am not exactly 6/6 but I see well enough. I just don't want my eyes to get used to glasses but eventually if the strain remains at that level, I might have to. I have combated it partially by using the techniques you outlined: distance (probably too much distance in my case), viewing angle, using paper printouts, minimal phone use, using paper to write on in case I just am thinking and am not sure about what to write and only being on screen when I really need to type, and using audio as much as I can. My productivity might be better with glasses, they probably will be mild correction, but my morale will suffer a lot and I will face productivity loss from managing a new accessory.
I've been trying to find any info on this topic but never found anything. Thank you TH-cam for recommending me this video.
Every time I look at my monitor, my eyes want to shut a little more but when I look outside my window, my eyes act fine. I've been off work then I got this issue. I play games daily or lookup stuff on my computer. I wear glasses and have astigmatism. 26 male.
Hey doctor, do you think the blue lens filter 'help' in guarding our eyes, or is it just a myth, because i have seen the opposite effects of that.
Guarding eyes: myth
Helps regulate sleep cycles: mayyybe
I would like to add the fact that using a higher refresh rate monitor also helps not getting your eyes puke because of the stuttery motion at 60 Hz, especially when scrolling.
Can you recover damage to the cornea from lack of proper blinking? Or is the damage permanent?
probably not, but considering LASIK is about scraping off the cornea, I'd guess we have plenty of it before any major complication, unless you sit in front of an air current all day every day.
There's a problem with how modern Operating Systems render the picture. I can sit in front of Windows 7 PC for hours and don't feel any eye strain. And I also can't stand more than 30 minutes using Windows 10/11 on THE SAME hardware. I quickly start feeling eye strain, dry eyes, nausea etc.
Very good presentation! Enjoyed your thorough, yet succinct delivery. I need someone like you teaching in our program...fancy a trip to Vietnam anytime soon?
I was wondering about the 20-20-20 rule:
- Is looking out a window count? How unobstructed should your view out the window be? Clear view or make sure there is nothing around like a shelf of plants? If the window is dirt does that matter?
- Instead of viewing something 20 feet away, can you just close your eyes for a period of time?
I think it depends on focal distance. So long as your eyes are focused on something that is approximately 20 ft away, you're good. So looking out a window counts. Make sure your focus is such that any obstructed parts are blurry rather than the things 20 ft away. I imagine you can close your eyes as well, but if you focus your eyes as if they're staring at something 20 ft away, it should provide a similar benefit.
Hi Antonio & thanks for the awesome & very informative educational video. What type of lenses (brands I mean) that you do recommend for customers to prevent them having the so called Computer vision syndrome?
Ive never been more self conscious of my own blinking
Holy shit dude. This is the best video about this topic I have seen so far. Thanks!!
abstract, clear and useful information👌
I'm going to take a fair amount of this to heart. My eyes are bad enough as is, so I'd best care for what sight I've got left.
Hi Antonio, interesting video topic. Does long-term incomplete blinks result in cornea damage typically? And can that be healed naturally? Thanks for sharing
Good question! ANY damage long term is never good. And the most natural way of healing it is prevention + routinely doing the best for the eyes (i.e. blinking more frequently + hot compresses)
Thank you so much. Very useful and informative..
Would like to ask one question, what is consequences of people who live very hot or coastal areas who don't use sunglasses
Thanks
Perth is considered one of the hottest climates in the world and I personally find a lot of pinguecula/pterygiums here as well as meibomian gland dysfunction from the sand/dust that’s around
How does computer work optimizing glasses work? I'd like to know more about that if possible. Thank you very much for this video, I will definatly benifit from this knowledge!
probably by giving you the wanted focal point at that distance instead of relying on your eye muscles, that way your eye can stay fully relaxed.
you're probably likely to benefit most if your use is inappropriate (too close).
I feel like I have the opposite problem... My left eye is +1 and my right eye +4, which has made my brain "ignore" my right eye. I have peripheral vision with it, but without glasses (and sometimes with) I cannot read with only my right. A few years back I started being unable to see far away, and if I really tried to focus I would start seeing double. It is like my right eye won't collaborate with my left. I talked to my optometrist and got a referral to the eye doctor, but since it is only long distance (think driving on the highway) they were unable to test it.
I also cannot see neon signs or the moon when it's bright anymore. It's just blurry or double with chromatic aberration (you've ever seen the moon and its orange and blue twin next to it? I have. Frequently). I'm really sad about it.
I keep a bit of single use Refresh Plus drops (recommended by an optometrist I go to) next to me when I'm on my computer. I put a single drop in every now and then. I've pretty much always had red eyes to some degree, these drops really help me.
Good video, cool visual about the eyes drying up. :)
I use software to remove blue colors at night (redshift in linux, night light in windows, eye comfort shield on android), it's much more enjoyable and helps me sleep. I get most eye strain playing certain games that require attention, then I forget to blink almost entirely. In contrast, programming doesn't give me much eye strain because that's another kind of attention.
This video made me want to blink
Yeap learned something new. Your talking is pleasing so that makes learning more enjoyable. Cheers! 💝
For me what made the difference is the bluelight filter on the computer and dark theme everywhere even in websites that don't support it thanks to the browser extension DarkReader.
my work setup as an editor is monitor closer and big TV in distance, so they are subjectively the same size. I found my eyes started fatiguing and needed a "warm-up" in the morning until I could start focusing on stuff. since I did this setup with changing focus between screens depending on my work position, I have that problem no more.
~ 5:20 - Ah, this might be one of the reasons why I find reading on Kindle much more comfortable than on the best of monitors. Also, I prefer to sit relatively high when in front of computer monitor.
I am mainly worried for the future, even though I don't have glasses now.
Thank you young man! God bless you
Hello doc What can you say about eyes parcially open when asleep😅… and I noticed that my eyes are particularly dry as veins are visible…Is regular use of eye drops recommended? I wear glasses for near sightedness btw…I tried contact lenses but couldn’t last longer than 2 hours😢
7:45 I find it more difficult to focus on far objects instead.
Spending many hours per day in front of computer screens, having electronics (tiny components) as a hobby, and having a job where most work is done close to me will probably not be the best for my eyes.
Antonio, is a notebook the best option for reading without damaging or straining your eyes?
What kind of eye drops do you recommend ? For daily use ?
I've basically lived at my computer for 20 years and thankfully have none of these symptoms!
Old LCD monitors used to have flickering backlights.
I'm near sighted in both eyes but to a much greater extent in my right eye. I use my computer constantly, and I always found that using my glasses when on my phone or computer would give me a splitting headache after a very brief amount of time. I'm gonna pay more closer attention to my blinking from now on, but this all does explain why my eyes don't feel as bad normally
it's weird for me. my dad and 2 of my sisters have glasses or contacts. me and my oldest sister do not and our eyes seem to be perfect, being able to read license plates from further away than most people. yet we have spend and i still do spend a lot of time behind a screen. i have no eye irritation, blurring, headaches, etc.