A small guide to healthy eye use

1, reading and writing, love you and fear you Parents are paying attention to the early education of their babies, children today are beginning to read and write at an increasingly early age, in the process of growing knowledge, inevitably also increases the occurrence of myopia and visual fatigue. What moms and dads should pay particular attention to is developing good reading habits in their children in order to minimize the adverse effects. The first is the control of continuous reading time, for babies within 3 years old, continuous reading time should be controlled within 15 minutes, and then parents should lead the baby temporarily away from the book; for babies aged 3-6 years old, each reading duration should be controlled within 30 minutes; for children over 6 years old, continuous reading time should also be controlled at about 40 minutes. Buy reading materials for babies within 3 years old try to choose more pictures, larger, brighter colors, because at this time the baby’s hand strength is small, read the book easily close to the book, pay attention to keep a good distance, if necessary, by parents to help hold the book, baby doodles can choose easy to ink the pen. When reading and doodling, pay attention to the lighting light, in order to feel comfortable and relaxed. Children above the age of 3 years old gradually increase the time to read and write, parents should pay special attention to the correct posture and study habits. Reading posture mainly grasp the book distance, body posture and table and chair height, as shown in the figure. In fact, parents should prepare a set of desks and chairs for their babies at different times to ensure the formation of their normal posture. In addition, for school-age children, good study habits are also quite important, parents need to focus on improving their learning efficiency to reduce their near eye time, as today’s children have a heavy study load, can efficiently complete the task of learning, but also to ensure adequate outdoor play time and sleep. Reading and writing require adequate light to feel comfortable. Desk lamp can choose some products without flicker, preferably to adjust the angle of exposure and brightness of the lamp; second, the reading material paper also need to pay attention to, try to use less of those paper reflective reading materials, more likely to lead to children’s visual fatigue; if you can choose yellow paper reading materials, research on adolescents and adults found that yellow paper reading materials can reduce the adjustment when reading, reduce visual fatigue. School-age children’s books try to choose children’s books with larger fonts, parents can reasonably arrange the frequency of reading, you can arrange some parent-child games at the right time, etc., in an effort to temporarily leave the books. 2, eye massage yourself, give your eyes a vacation in daily life can try their own eye massage, can relieve visual fatigue to a certain extent, relax the long look at books and computers and television and other visual screens of the eyes, their own eyes to take a vacation. Mothers and fathers can try their own hands to baby eye massage, can make the baby’s eyes more comfortable, but also to enhance parent-child communication, in the intense study to steal some leisure. The following is a simple eye acupressure exercise that can relieve eye fatigue in the clinical application. 3, hold a good pen, write well When writing, holding the pen correctly or not obviously affects the posture of reading and writing, incorrect pen grip will make the writing distance significantly closer, thus making it easy to cause visual fatigue and myopia. The most common wrong way for children to hold a pen is to hold it too close to the nib, causing the nib to be blocked by the fingers while writing, and forcing children to tilt their heads and get too close to the book to see their nibs, making them prone to visual fatigue and myopia. And the pencil grip developed during childhood will be difficult to change, so pay attention to the development of children’s correct pencil grip. At the same time, parents should also pay attention to the selection of those children write smoothly with the pen, should not choose those too heavy and ink too astringent pen, too short pencil to replace in a timely manner. When writing two shoulders balanced, relaxed 4, choose a TV, don’t just choose a large Today’s TV size is getting bigger and bigger, the function is also a variety of, select the TV inevitably dazzling, difficult to follow. For parents with children, the selection of the TV needs to take into account the baby’s visual function protection factors. The main considerations include the size of the TV to match the living room or room, and the need to understand the best viewing distance to buy a TV, in addition, other parameters of the TV such as resolution, brightness and contrast, viewing angles are also important to consider, careful observation of the focus. Generally speaking, the safe TV viewing distance is about 3-5 times the diagonal length of the TV set, the height of the TV set should also be noted: placed too high so that when watching the line of sight is always up, easy to lead to dry eyes and visual fatigue; placed too low, and easy to lead to neck muscle tension; the best height is the center of the TV set is located slightly below the line of sight, which is more comfortable to keep the eyes when watching. Therefore, the installation of television sets need to take full account of the viewing height of children at home. Not in too dark an environment to watch television, more likely to lead to visual fatigue, and not in too bright an environment, watching the environment when the lighting should be appropriate, the TV mirror should not have obvious reflections. It is best to keep a light on in the room where you are watching.