Working From Home? Here's Why Anti-fatigue Lenses Are Essential for Your Eye Health
The two years of the COVID pandemic sparked profound changes that saw people spend more time with their families as they moved from their offices to work from home. Things have almost returned to normal, but working from home is the new norm. However, this presents a new problem—eye fatigue from too much screen time. Fortunately, you can get anti-fatigue lenses.
What Is Eye Fatigue?
Experts say the average person spends over six hours on a digital device, working, or social media. While the most widespread impact of this increase in screen time is the effects of blue light, it is not the only problem.
Extended time focusing on close-up work also leads to dry eyes and fatigue, which are much more unpleasant. Eye fatigue is the result of prolonged strain on the eyes and the stress on eye muscles while working with digital devices.
What Causes Eye Fatigue?
Eyestrain
When working with digital devices, the muscles that help operate your eyes tense continuously. They also incline the lines of sight from both eyes to one point on your screen. This change in inclination causes eye deformation, vision deterioration, and sometimes myopia.
Eye Muscle Stress
When doing close-up work, you exert significant stress on the two oblique muscles encircling the eye. Also, the internal rectus muscles constantly contract, meaning that at least six eye muscles are under pressure.
Blue Light
A lot of information online points to blue light as the cause of eye fatigue, but the study into that needs to be clarified and conclusive. The reason is that much more is happening during these work hours.
The impact of blue light is limited to its effects on sleep when you use digital devices before you go to bed. Blue light affects melatonin production, the sleep hormone, which means you get less sleep than ideal.
Solutions for Eye Fatigue
Anti-fatigue Lenses
From the descriptions above, eye doctors realized that the only way to reduce eye fatigue is by changing the refraction of light into the eye. Anti-fatigue lenses create the illusion that the screen is further than it is.
How Do Anti-fatigue Lenses Work?
Anti-fatigue lenses are created using microprisms that change the direction of light from what you are looking at. This solves the issue of eyestrain and muscle stress, reducing the chances of eye fatigue. The prisms in the lenses take the pressure from the muscles that keep trying to adjust to the near vision work.
The lenses also have a refractive lens that can be altered to fit patients with myopia and those without. The lenses are customized according to the patient's specific needs. Some are made with two levels of correction, a microprism at the top and a refractive lens at the bottom.
For more on why anti-fatigue lenses are essential for your eye health when working from home, visit Brandon Eyes at our office in Middleton or Madison, Wisconsin. Call (608) 833-7256 or (608) 833-0301 to book an appointment today.
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