Brit children at risk of developing short-sightedness as study reveals kids spend more than four and half hours a day staring at screens
SOARING numbers of kids are in danger of going blind because of too much time glued to their mobile phones, experts have warned.The world is already experiencing soaring rates of the eye condition, with an increase of 46 per cent in the UK over the last three decades.Dr John Bolger, an ophthalmologist and director of a private eye clinic in London, is deeply worried by the rise in children developing short-sightedness, known as myopia.
According to the NHS, short-sightedness usually runs in families, but extended time looking at screens could trigger the condition, which happens when the eyeball grows slightly too long.Mum's desperate plea after 'perfectly healthy' baby died days after 'grunting' noisesThis is because the muscles in the eye stretch, and the lens shifts, damaging how we focus on objects in the distance.
Dr Bolger said that children as young as four now wear contact lenses with very strong prescriptions. He said, "The grown-ups are guilty of it too," when one youngster confessed to doomscrolling for too long.
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