A Sight For Sporteyes sports specific eyewear and goggles. For gifts, with kids and parents social distancing at home and using digital devices, A sight For Sporteyes recommend blue light reading glasses. www.sporteyes.com

A Sight For Sporteyes sports specific eyewear and goggles. For gifts, with kids and parents social distancing at home and using digital devices, A sight For Sporteyes recommend blue light reading glasses. www.sporteyes.com

A Sight For Sporteyes have a rugby specific goggle and the only goggle approved for use in Rugby. For gifts, with kids and parents social distancing at home and using digital devices, A sight For Sporteyes recommend blue light reading glasses. The come with no power for kids or those that don’t need reading power, and in reading power for those who do need power to read their digital devices. See their blog article on why blue light is important and recommended styles. www.sporteyes.com/blog/distance-learning-and-the-invisible-risks-to-kids-eye-health/

BLOG >> DISTANCE LEARNING AND THE INVISIBLE RISKS TO KIDS EYE HEALTH

With more and more school districts closing in person learning for the rest of the school year, kids are being forced to distance learn on digital devices. While technology is allowing our kids to continue to learn, staring at a digital device for hours upon hours a day is not healthy for kids eyes.

While there is conflicting opinions from medical professionals about the damage blue light can do to the eye, we do know eye strain is an issue with staring at screens for too long. This can cause temporary headaches, dry eye, blurry vision and even neck strain. But there is also new evidence that should be very concerning for parents.

Research that shows that myopia (near nearsightedness) is on the rise and linked to digital devices. When kids spend too much time looking at closer objects like a tablet or phone, it sends signals to the brain that is “distance” vision and grows accordingly. Researchers believe this is what is causing the steep rise in myopia since 2007…. see the full article at :- www.sporteyes.com/blog/distance-learning-and-the-invisible-risks-to-kids-eye-health