Many gadget lovers lurk serious dangers about which you should know.
Clearly, what our time dictates certain conditions, when without gadgets is simply not enough. But it is also important to understand that their excessive use is significantly spoils the quality of sleep and harms mental health. Among our contemporaries, quite often “deformed” relations with other people, partially reduced the feeling of happiness, self-esteem falls.
Give some real dangers from such abuse.
Cyberbulling
This condition experts are also called digital seasick. Its symptoms manifest themselves a headache, a nausea, a condition that can occur when quickly scrolling through pages on a smartphone or viewing motion video on the screen. This disease can happen to anyone, although more often affects women than men and those who suffer from migraine and more receptive to it.
“Text claw”
Those who often gaining texts, writes messages, can earn a “text claw” – a condition where sore fingers, wrist, cramps of the hands, pain in the joints, discomfort in the forearm.
To prevent this condition, it should be possible to reduce the time of use of the devices. And to relieve the unpleasant symptoms you need to periodically break away from the smartphones and laptops and doing a little hand massage, stretching, heating and cooling.
Visual fatigue
When you stare at the screen for a long time, it may be the spine of tired eyes, inflammation, irritation and dryness. Also to avoid headaches and fatigue, which will reduce performance.
This condition is not a serious problem and it can be revised “screen breaks”. According to experts, you should take a break for 20 seconds every 20 minutes. Take a look of the room or look out the window. When dry, use special eye drops.
“Text neck”
This syndrome is manifested by discomfort in the neck and spine and appears when you spend a long time looking at the smartphone. This habit, over time, can appear the risk of neck and spine.
Problems with sperm
Some scientific evidence saying that the heat coming from tablets and laptops can damage sperm, reduce sperm’s ability to move, damage DNA and reduce the chances of reproduction.
Car accident
Lately more and more often record the deaths of pedestrians in car accidents – too many smartphone users are distracted and not watching the road, losing a sense of reality in the physical world, to pay less attention to traffic signals and overall traffic situation.
Overeating
Every gadget in varying degrees has a negative influence on our eating habits. Being distracted by reading or looking at beautiful images of high-calorie food, a person can fall into this food trap and eat more than when I was focused on the process of eating.
