CAUTION! If you do this with your smartphone,you will soon go blind.

You need to think twice if you always use your phone at night because you will soon have transient blindness.


Doctors have advised smartphone users about the possibility of having incurable illness that can to the eye after a man went blind for sometimes while playing games on his phone in bed.


Wang from  Xi'an said he temporarily went blind after playing games on his smartphone with the light off at night.

Medical personnels say he was affected by what is called an "eye stroke" and the illness can be incurable.

"I was using my right eye to look at my phone and I could see some words but not the others" Wang told the South China Morning post.

"I love playing on my phone but at night my wife doesn't want me using it because the screen light is too bright after the light have been turned off"

Wang's doctor Leo To Said his transient blindness was because of "Overseas of electronic items" which can result to "excessive strain on vision"


"The occurrence rate is getting higher each year and there is a trend of younger victims"


"The rate of permanent blindness is also high, which can seriously affect the patients quality of life and contribution to society."

Study shows that people that use their smartphone at night in the dark especially when the light is off can truly experience "transient blindness"


HOW TO PREVENT THIS IF YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR GADGETS AT NIGHT.
1. Always reduce the brightness of your smartphone at night to the lowest.
2. If you use laptop often at night make sure you reduce the brightness to the lowest.

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