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7 Effective Ways To Protect Your Eyes From Smartphone Strain by dimexy247(m): 6:58am On Oct 05, 2016
Your smartphone is a sight for sore eyes. Literally.
If you’re one of those people who glances at their smartphone 150 times a day, chances are your eyes are paying the price for your screen addiction.
Staring at your smartphone -- or tablet, e-reader or laptop, while we’re at it -- for too long can lead to tired, itchy, dry eyes, and even blurred vision and headaches. Think zombie eyes and you’re there.

Luckily you can minimize inevitable digital eye strain by blending a few simple, healthy habits into your smartphone-gazing routine.
Here are seven super quick and easy ways to give your eyes a break during your all those smartphone marathon sessions.

1. Blink, blink and blink again. Blinking often (and for more than a second) keeps your eyes moist and reduces dryness and irritation. We tend blink about a third less than we normally would when we stare lovingly at our precious smartphone screens, which starves our poor peepers of protective tears. Keep your eyes wet by blinking about 10 times every 20 minutes or so and you should be good to go. Bonus: Blinking often helps refocus your eyes, too.

2. Minimize glare. Unless you have a smartphone equipped with anti-glare Corning Gorilla Glass or use a matte screen protector film, you’re probably coping with a fair amount of annoying reflective glare. The fix is easy and inexpensive: Buy an anti-reflective coating and (carefully) slap it on your smartphone screen. They range between about $1 and $20 on Amazon.com and in most mobile service provider stores. Bonus: Anti-glare screen protectors also fend off fingerprints.

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3. Take breaks. Sounds scary, right? But your eyes will thank you. By now you’ve probably heard of the 20-20-20 rule. The concept is to take a break from looking at your screen every 20 minutes for 20 seconds while looking at something 20 feet away. Doing so relaxes your eye muscles (and gives you ample time to contemplate which fun, new iPhone or Android app you’ll play with next).

4. Adjust your brightness. Having your screen too bright or too dark stresses your eyes out and can cause problems maintaining focus. To eliminate either issue in about a matter of seconds, simply go into your smartphone settings and adjust your screen brightness so it’s about the same as the light level in the environment around you. Wait -- that is unless you're in the pitch black dark squinting at your smartphone in bed, which, by the way, can lead to insomnia and less sex).

5. Tweak your text size and contrast. Adjusting your smartphone text contrast and size also provides a little much-needed relief. It makes it easier to read web content, email messages, calendar appointments and everything else on your phone.
6. Keep a clean screen. Routinely wipe down your smartphone screen with a dry (not wet!) cleaning cloth to remove distracting dust, grime, smudges and fingerprints.

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Re: 7 Effective Ways To Protect Your Eyes From Smartphone Strain by jeffronald19(m): 8:53am On Oct 05, 2016
1. Flicker, squint and squint once more.
Squinting regularly (and for over a second) keeps your eyes clammy and lessens dryness and bothering. We tend flicker around a third short of what we typically would when we gaze affectionately at our valuable cell phone screens, which keeps our poor peepers from defensive tears.

2. Minimize glare.
Unless you have a cell phone furnished with against glare Glasses or utilize a matte screen defender film, you're most likely adapting to a decent measure of irritating intelligent glare. The fix is simple and reasonable: Buy an against intelligent covering and (deliberately) slap it on your cell phone screen.

3.Take breaks.
Sounds alarming, isn't that so? Be that as it may, your eyes will bless your heart. At this point you've likely known about the 20-20-20 principle. The idea is to enjoy a reprieve from taking a gander at your screen at regular intervals for 20 seconds while taking a gander at something 20 feet away. Doing as such unwinds your eye muscles and gives you abundant time to think about which fun, new iPhone or Android application you'll play with next.

4. Go to settings than choose option display and reduce the level of your brightness.
Re: 7 Effective Ways To Protect Your Eyes From Smartphone Strain by PRISTINEMUSCLES: 1:02pm On Oct 05, 2016
Very informative. If care and precautions are not taken, there will be a sharp increase in the number of people having failed eyesights due to prolonged exposure to smarthone screens.

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