Eyesight problems are increasing during the COVID pandemic lockdown, with kids spending more time on mobile phones and computers for online classes and gaming.

According to rough estimates, around 40 percent of kids have complained of various eye and vision associated problems in recent weeks.
The majority of the kids are being diagnosed with convergence insufficiency, a condition in which the eyes are incapable of working together when viewing at nearby objects. This condition creates one eye to turn outward instead of inward with the other eye, creating blurred or double vision, stated Anil Rastogi, a well-known ophthalmologist.
Kids working long hours on computers and smartphones normally complain of watering, loss of retention power, itching, or burning in eyes, besides headache and eye pain, Rastogi added.
Shikha Kumar, another ophthalmologist, states that since the national lockdown, most kids have been found to be spending around 8 to 10 hours on electronic devices.
Doctors say that kids are being diagnosed with computer vision syndrome where they complain of pain, dryness, blurring of vision, redness, double vision, and other head and neck sprains.
Advertisement
Source-Medindia