Why is it not recommended to turn off the lights at night to play with mobile phones? It would be great if you knew these hazards earlier

Mobile phones are the most important electronic devices for people nowadays. Many people often pick up their phones to check them as soon as they open their eyes in the morning. They also cannot do without their phones during study and work during the day, and they keep using their phones until they turn off the lights and go to bed at night. Even now, many people have developed the habit of playing with their phones after turning off the lights.

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But we often hear doctors and others say that you should not play with your phone with the lights off. If you must play with your phone, turn on the lights or a night light. Why is this? What are the dangers of playing with your phone with the lights off?

1. Damage to vision, resulting in different degrees of myopia in the left and right eyes

The most common and most troublesome harm of playing games with the lights off is undoubtedly that it can easily lead to myopia. Playing with mobile phones can cause myopia not only because of turning off the lights, but even in broad daylight, if you play with your mobile phone for too long, it can also cause myopia. However, turning off the lights to play games will make this harm more serious.

Looking at the phone screen in the dark can easily cause visual fatigue, making our eyes sore and dry, and accelerating the rate of myopia. Moreover, when we turn off the lights at night and lie on the bed to play with our phones, we often choose a more comfortable side-lying position, which will lead to inconsistent myopia levels in our left and right eyes. By the time we discover it, it is already difficult to adjust.

Second, it can cause eye diseases, such as glaucoma

Turning off the lights to play with your phone will not only cause myopia, but in severe cases, it may even cause eye diseases. Inside the eye, there are many sensitive organs, and there is pressure between them, which is called intraocular pressure. If we look at our phones for a long time in the dark, it will cause the pupils to dilate for a long time, which will cause abnormal pressure inside the eyes. Over time, various eye diseases will come up, such as glaucoma. The eye diseases caused by this are often blinding and irreversible. In order to avoid these hazards, doctors call for not turning off the lights to play with your phone.

3. It can cause other diseases, with serious consequences

Many people know that turning off the lights to play with mobile phones can cause harm to the eyes. But in fact, the harm to the eyes is only one aspect. When we turn off the lights and play with mobile phones in dark conditions, the light from the mobile phone screen is likely to attract some insects that are affected by phototropism. For those who are afraid of insects, this is definitely a nightmare. Moreover, some insects are often poisonous and may cause other damage to our sensitive face and other parts. This invisible harm is even more frightening.

After reading the above, you know that the harm of playing with mobile phones with the lights off is not an exaggeration. Some people may think that playing with mobile phones with the lights off will damage eyesight because of the bad screen, and it will be fine if you change to a mobile phone with a good screen. This statement makes some sense, but in fact it is only a temporary solution. No matter how good the screen is, staring at it for a long time, especially in dark conditions, will put heavy pressure on our eyes and affect our health. Therefore, for your own consideration, it is better not to turn off the lights to play games. If you really want to play, at least turn on a small light. Do you usually have the habit of playing games with the lights off?