Eyes, Vision and Computer Use:
How you can Protect Yourself from Technology Use Induced Harm
By
Adetutu Ijose
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Eyes, Vision and Computer Use:
How you can Protect Yourself from Technology Use Induced Harm
Copyright © 2011 by Adetutu Ijose
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Eyes, Vision and Computer Use:
How you can Protect Yourself from High Technology Induced Harm
The advise given in Eyes, Vision and Computer Use is based on an understanding of the effects of computer use on human behavior gained when I suffered life threatening consequences of computer use that could not be effectively diagnosed or treated by conventional medical science.
I was only able to get an understanding of the problem and identify the solution by studying and gaining an understanding of the human code of existence from studying the human machine user manual we call the Bible or Scriptures.
I then searched scientific text from all over the world in a bid to provide these insights to everyone else in a language they can understand.
I have used some of these findings from the American Optometric Association (AOA) as well as information from some individual doctors in this book.
This is meant to be a short book and therefore to get more details you need to read my other books especially Lessons I Learned the Hard Way a 300 page guide on the subject of Computer use induced health conditions.
This book is in fact actually an update on chapter 3 “The Eyes” of that book.
If you want additional information on the general subject of computer use induced health conditions, please get a hold of the sequel Computer related Health Conditions too.
This book Eyes, Vision and Computer Use is informational and is a guide that contains both advice and instructions. It is essential that you read the entire book carefully and that any decision you make be discussed with your physician before proceeding.
This book is not meant to replace the advice of or the service of a health care provider who knows you personally.
An essential element of taking responsibility for your life and health is a regular annual eye exam and working in partnership with medical professionals.
If you are under treatment for any computer use induced health condition or if you suspect you might need such care, you must discuss any insight you gain from this book with your doctor before starting.
Please read the entire book carefully and help yourself and all you know. You can be a long-term computer user without self-destroying but you must first acknowledge the need to do something.
All the solutions are natural, cheap and do not involve medication. In fact medicine is stressful to the body and one that is already weakened from the health effects of computer use should not be medicated.
That will increase the stress and start a new problems involving unnecessary costs that could bankrupt individuals and societally as a nation and even globally.
We therefore need to change the way we have been looking at this issue if we want to remain a healthy prosperous population on earth.
One thing though, you must not self diagnose just look for a doctor who is ready to use other measures apart from medication as you will need close monitoring and some tests to identify what is depleted or missing in your body’s system as a result of your computer use. These tests do not show everything but are a good starting point.
Computers are here to stay and can never be as safe as claimed. The computer use environment for example makes us look directly at a source of light to read, which is contrary to our natural way of never looking directly at the sun (our natural source of reading light).
Please note that the term computers in this book is not limited to the laptop or desktop but includes all computer devices such as ipads, iphones, cell phones, video games and so on are computers too.
They all have the same general effect on vision
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Table of Contents
Chapter1: Misconceptions about Eyes and Computer Use
Chapter2: The Anatomy of the Eyes
Chapter 3: Vision Health Statistics
Chapter 4: Eye Health Effects of Computer Use
Chapter 5: Computer Vision Syndrome
Chapter 6: New Technology with Eye Consequences
Chapter 7: Special Consideration For Children
Chapter 8: The Annual Eye Exam
Chapter 9: More on Diet, Hydration, Exercise and so on
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Misconceptions about eyes and computer use
You may have been told that computer use has no real permanent effect on the eyes and if your eyes hurt during computer use it is because you have pre existing eye trouble.
This may not be true. My guess is that this misconception has gone on because many believe if the truth is known people will stop using the computer and it will affect the economy.
Nothing can be far from the truth. It is in fact the health consequences arising from ignorance that will both bankrupt the economy and ensure people have no choice but to avoid the computer once they become totally incapacitated from its mismanaged health effects over time.
Not realizing that because computer use is not natural to our normal coded way of eye use, and the light it uses is lifeless and devoid of neurotransmitters and other biochemicals necessary for proper eye function means there would naturally be a negative effect is not the best way to handle things.
We must not be so concerned about the economy and making money that we price it above human vision and indeed human life in many cases. The effect on the eyes is not limited to the eyes alone but travels through the eyes, brain, heart and other body parts and functions.
We cannot sell ourselves on the altar of economic expediency killing ourselves, and the children we claim to be trying to provide for.
The human machine is a coded being and like any other coded machine will malfunction whenever something it is not coded to operate with is connected to it.
The good news is that there are preventive and management measures we can put in place to minimize the hurt and protect ourselves. But first we must acknowledge that there is a problem. Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to computer use. Ignorance is suicide.
The computer is a tool that must be used with care. There is no room for carelessness with computer use. It takes a long time for the full effect of the health consequences of its use to fully manifest and it is easy to be lulled into complacency.
The bad news is that the body gives warning signs in the way of symptoms that are routinely misdiagnosed as more commonly known ailments.
Consequently, acknowledging the dangers to ourselves and managing it is the best solution.
Maybe you have been told that your problem is age related.
That is what I was told too but it made no sense to me since I did not wear eyeglasses before I started having eye problem from computer use and I only had blurry eyes and vision problem when trying to read with the computer. I could read everything else with normal lighting perfectly.
In fact I was told at the ophthalmologist’s office that I could virtually see through the wall. That is how good my eyesight is when I am not looking at words from a computer screen.
But with the computer everything goes blurry and headaches and other symptoms arise when the computer is the vehicle for reading.
I share in my first book Lessons I Learned the Hard way: How to Identify, Minimize, Treat and Manage Computer Related Health Conditions, what happened to me and how our maker in his wisdom and love provided me with the solution when all else failed and I was dying from life threatening health effects of computer use.
The vision part of my problem was so severe. Little did I know the seriousness of what I was dealing with.
It is with gratitude to God our maker that I share all these insights from our maker provided in our human machine user manual we call the Scriptures or Bible
I pray that you get the same healing and help from reading this presentation of the information I received. I have tried to put things in a language people would understand because healing is for everybody as long as our maker has made the sun to shine on everyone
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Anatomy of the Eyes
It is important for us to get a good understanding of the anatomy of the eye as a prelude to understanding the computer-related injuries and illnesses that can arise as a result of vision impairment from the computer.
Please take a few minutes to study the diagram below and familiarize yourself with the diagram as we take a tour of the eyes.
The human eye is the organ that gives us the sense of sight, allowing us to learn more about the surrounding world than we do with any of the other four senses.
We use our eyes in almost every activity we perform, whether reading, working (on the computer or other forms of work), watching television, writing a letter, driving a car, and in countless other ways.
Most people probably would agree that sight is the sense they value more than all the rest.
The eye allows us to see and interpret the shapes, colors, and dimensions of objects in the world by processing the light they reflect or emit. The eye is able to detect bright light or dim light, but it cannot sense objects when light is absent.
It is light that activates the optic and sensory nerves in our brains that enable us to see.
Light waves from an object (e.g., a tree) enter the eye first through the cornea, the clear dome at the front of the eye. The light then progresses through the pupil, the circular opening in the center of the colored iris.
Fluctuations in incoming light change the size of the eye’s pupil. When the light entering the eye is bright enough, the pupil will constrict (get smaller), due to the pupillary light response.
Initially, light waves are bent or converged first by the cornea, and then further by the crystalline lens (located immediately behind the iris and the pupil) to a nodal point located immediately behind the back surface of the lens.
At that point, the image becomes reversed (turned backward) and inverted (turned upside down).
The lights continues through the vitreous humor, the clear gel that makes up about 80 percent of the eye’s volume, and then back to a clear focus on the retina, behind the vitreous.
The small central area of the retina is the macula, which provides the best vision of any location in the retina. If the eye is considered to be a type of camera, the retina is equivalent to the film inside the camera, registering the tiny photons of light interacting with it.
Within the layers of the retina, light impulses are changed into electrical signals. Then they are sent through the optic nerve, along the visual pathway, to the occipital cortex at the posterior (back) of the brain.
Here, the electrical signals are interpreted or “seen” by the brain as a visual image.
Actually, then, we do not “see” with our eyes but, rather, with our brains. Our eyes merely are the beginnings of the visual process.”
Here is how the American Optometric Association (AOA) 2-1 puts it in more actual process details.