Smartphones can cause blindness in one eye.
Doctors have described two cases of unusual disturbances, which occurred in women after they have used a smartphone in the dark.
As reported by Live Science portal, the diagnosis of “smartphone blindness” was staged two citizens of great Britain.
In both cases, the patient used a smartphone while lying in bed at night.
In the first case, 22-year-old patient complained the fact that beginning to see the bad right eye. This recurrence happened to her several times a week throughout the year, she could see his right eye only the outlines of objects, and her left eye is fully functioned. The scan the doctors found no blood clot or any other reasons that could cause vision loss.
In the second case, a 40-year-old patient complained in the morning about 15 minutes lost the ability to see with one eye. Relapses occurred periodically for six months.
According to researchers, the woman inadvertently looked in the smartphone only with one eye. This leads to the fact that one eye is adapted to darkness and bright light of a smartphone. After turning off the smartphone staring into his eyes for some time becomes “blind” due to the recovery of visual balance.
Earlier it was reported that in the German city of Augsburg next to one of the institutions set embedded in the sidewalk traffic lights. On such measures the city authorities went because of the fact that an increasing number of people all the time looking at a smartphone, why not notice as you leave the roadway, and accidents.
