Screen time is inevitably a part of our daily life, so I am sharing a few of my tips on how to protect your eyes while using screens and a few things you can implement to protect your vision. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

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I’m on the computer a lot during the day because I do. I work for a school district. So I’m on Zoom, probably six hours a day. And then the other four hours, I’m on the computer doing other projects. So I do have prescriptions. I have my blue blockers that I wear, even though they kind of look a little funny to some people. But people always ask me what they are. And they are convinced to get some because our eyes are strained and tired because they’re on the computer all the time as well. But I have my prescriptions that have bifocals in them. So what would you suggest? Because you were just mentioning that it’s maybe too strong.

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Yeah. So you know, the bigger the window you look through in terms of the glass, the more peripheral vision you bring into it, and the more relaxation, so I don’t like to use bifocals prescribing them for digital screen time. And yes, you need to make sure you get a reduced prescription that’s calculated based on the distance you’re focusing. I have a lady right now, where we took her out of progressive lenses. She’s now wearing a single vision lens for her screen time and our eye strain went down about 80%. So I think you need to get out of the bifocal and into the single vision and maybe even incorporate the blue blockers in that as long as you don’t feel the weight is is bothering you.

But it’s another filter. It’s another lens that you’re having to look through. When you’re doing you’re focusing. And I would build into the day, a lot of at least many breaks of doing some of these eye exercises. You know, people are asking how many times a day, I might do 234 times a day, even if it’s just for 30 seconds or a minute so that you’re disrupting the staring and the trance that we get into screen time because we’re making repetitive movements over and over again. And we need to break that pattern. And the way to do that is through the eye exercises. So again, we’re rejuvenating. And it’s again, it’s that idea of seeing and being seen, well there’s no way we’re being seen when we’re constantly in the doing mode with our exercises with our screen time. So we need to build in the exercises to balance that out.

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