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Originally Posted by Thomas T
No, it won't. At least the specialists at addenbrooks, moorfields in london and bedford hospital tell me it won't.  |
Maybe that's because when you need a 40" monitor to use eBay your eyesight's already as bad as it's going to get...
Joking aside I've questioned this with my optician as well as I spend a
ridiculous amount of time in front of a PC screen each week. I was told that focusing on something that close for a long can cause strains in the muscles that control eye movement, but that it wasn't a serious/permanent problem. The fact that it's a screen you're focusing on is irrelevant: it's the proximity that causes the issue. The way to avoid it is to regularly focus on something in the distance for a few seconds.
I was told VDU work certainly doesn't cause long term or permanent sight damage.
Ed.