Bathroom bar damage to children’s eyes

“Because the retinal macula is not fully developed at birth, the age of 0 to 4 years is a sensitive and fragile period for vision development in infants. During this period, some strong light can easily pass through the cornea and lens to cause damage to the retina of infants and children. Many parents like to hold their children when bathing, the child’s eyes directly to the bright light of the bath, which will produce damage to the child’s eyesight, resulting in the child’s vision does not reach the normal level. Therefore, when bathing, should try to avoid eyes directly to the bath bar glare.” The bath bar mainly relies on infrared radiation to glow and heat, in order to quickly heat up, the bath bar light release of energy and intensity is particularly high. But the corneal and conjunctival surface of infants and young children is very delicate, coupled with children will be curious about bright things, bath bombs light may burn the retinal macula, affecting the development of children’s vision, and may even cause permanent damage to vision. In the bath to children under 10 years of age try not to use the bath bar. Many parents believe that a short period of direct vision will not affect the child’s eyesight, in fact, if often use the bath bar, the long-term accumulation will also affect the development of children’s vision. “To the child before bathing, you can first open the bath bar will bathroom preheat, or use the heater, and so the bathroom temperature, and then turn off the bath bar to the child bath; if you need to open the bath bar to the child bath, parents can add shade cloth above the bath bar, or adjust the position of the child bath, reduce the intensity and time of the bath bar direct light.” Not only with the bath will hurt the child’s eyes, fluorescent lights, LED screens and many other light sources will have an impact on the child’s vision, a long time to infants and toddlers with flash photography, or let infants and toddlers in strong sunlight sun, sleep, which often causes damage to the retinal macula of infants and toddlers, affecting the development of their eyes and vision. For this reason, parents are advised to protect the eyes of their infants and toddlers by avoiding strong sunlight, flash lights and infrared bath lights directly into the eyes, and by turning their backs to the sunlight or wearing sun shades when going outdoors in the sun. At the same time, you should pay attention to give your child additional vegetables, especially dark green vegetables, and breastfeeding as much as possible. Because breast milk and vegetables are rich in lutein, which can play the function of filtering strong light and antioxidant.