Eye Strain Symtoms, Reduce Eye Strain

Your eyes rely on muscles to move around and see. These muscles get tired and strained like any other overused muscle in your body. Eye strain (asthenopia) also happens more as we get older.

Eye strain symptoms are the familiar aching and blurring of vision during fine close up work.

Eye Strain Symptoms:

• Tired feeling aching eyes.
• Red eyes.
• Tension frontal headaches.
• Blurred vision.

Reduce Eye Strain:

• When doing fine or close up work like knitting or or reading, take a break every 30 minutes for a minute and change your focus by looking out into the distance. This relaxes the eye muscles reducing eye strain.
• Try a screen glare guard for your computer monitor and try changing your screen display settings to make text larger.
• Get your eyes checked once a year by an optician. Blurred vision is a normal part of getting older and can lead to eye strain.
• When surfing the internet, try changing your browser text size to larger.
• Check the lighting in your home. Maybe it's too dull for reading. Read under good lighting and with space between yourself and the reading material to reduce eye strain.

If your eyes feel strained right now maybe you need to take a rest from your computer and reading until tomorrow. We'll still be here :)

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