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TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHILD’S EYES!!

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TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHILD’S EYES!!

Hyderabad, Oct.5 (NSS): Walking in to a park for a stroll, one can see 4,5 youngsters in the age group of 8 to 12 sitting on a bench and scaning through a mobile phone. What is more shocking is a two or three year old kid sitting in a chair in his house and peeping in to a smart phone, seeing some pictures or  games. If the cell phone in his hand is taken away, the child starts screaming or weeping, and the mother/father gives back the mobile to him/her. These are not rare sights, but have become almost common nowadays.

What is a matter of concern is the failure of the parents to take note of the repeated warnings being given by the medical professionals and the scientists about the ill-effects of mobile on the kids and teens on their eye sight and also mental health.

An extensive study conducted in 50 countries in the six continents has revealed that world wide 36 per cent of the children are suffering from long sight (unable to see objects at a distance) and this problem has increased by three times during 1990 and 2023. About 50 lakh children and teenagers were covered under the study.

The eye problem is seven times higher in the Asian countries, compared to African countries. Crores of children confining themselves to their homes and witnessing the smart phone and TV is the main cause for the eye problem, apart from sending kids to the school at an early age. In African countries, school education starts from 6 to 8 years of age and children spend more time in the open (outside the house) and hence the eye sight problem is comparatively less.

The study revealed that by 2050, as many as 69 per cent of the children and teenagers in the Asian countries will be affected by the long sight problem. The problem accounts for 85 per cent in Japan, 73 percent in South Korea, 40 percent in China and Russia, while it is about 15 percent only in UK, Ireland and USA. In Uganda only one percent of the children are affected by the eye problem.

The findings of the study were published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology recently.

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