Eye Health: Computer Eye Syndrome

Fatigue of the eye is often referred to as Computer Eye Syndrome or asthenopia in medical language.

Computer Eye Syndrome is a condition that manifests the eyes of non-specific such as fatigue, pain, blurred vision, headaches and so on due to excessive computer use after other causes ruled out. The first thing we can do is rearrange the monitor settings and room to work, so that adverse effects Computer Eye Syndrome can be minimized.

Comfortable Viewing Position

Seeing an object that is close to our eye muscles to work extra. You can try to get your eye muscles are more relaxed. One way to rearrange the order of your monitor. Here are tips to set it:

Try your monitor is approximately along the arm of your eye (Â ± 50cm)
Place the monitor display is lower than your eyes
Try the monitor has a slope of 10 â € "20 degrees from the vertical plane making it easier for you to see
Put the monitor on my desk (do not put that on top of the CPU)
Keep the monitor and keyboard in one direction orientation, it is useful to mengurahi strain on the neck.
Document Proper Place

If you need at a paper document in the works, put your documents are also in the same direction as the orientation of your computer. The best place is a piece with your monitor screen. How do I? Hang the document next to the monitor. If this is not possible, you can place it vertically aligned with the monitor. Avoid placing the document on the table, next to the monitor (not plot). This will make your eyes work much harder.

Light Intensity

Lighting techniques tailored to the type of work you intend to do. If you work with computers without a document, for example designing a computer program, rather dim lighting that will be useful to improve your concentration on the monitor screen. But there are things to consider is lighting produced should be uniform. This prevents the eye receives light from one direction only which will also cause eyestrain.

But if your job requires you to pay attention to objects outside the screen, a kind of document for example, the bright room lighting will be better for your eyes. Especially when the object is a document that you use a small bearing and full of detail. Natural lighting such as sunlight can be a source of good lighting. However you need additional tools, such as curtains, to adjust the intensity of natural lighting. Curtain drapes used was not in vain. Use a small hole in the curtain fabric evenly, so that the resulting beam had to be uniform.

Antiglare screen

In addition to the reflection of light, you are also advised to avoid reflections of other objects around your monitor. It is now widely sold flat-screen monitors and have been coated with antiglare coating. This is very beneficial in reducing the reflection effect. But for those of you who still use the convex-screen monitor, there's nothing wrong if you try using an antiglare screen that has long been much in the market.

Suitable Surround

The burden of your eyes will increase if you pay attention to the screen where the light around the monitor is brighter than the monitor itself. Therefore, to avoid placing the light source behind the screen. Put the monitor in the window was not recommended.

Characteristic Monitor

Keep your monitor is set to the level of the optimal contrast and brightness so that the picture becomes clearer. This also will reduce the work of your eyes. These changes can you do it manually on your monitor and also through the contrast settings of your computer operating system (eg control panel on windows operating system).

Color Display

Selection color on the background sheet and writings that contrast is also quite influential. Display a white background with black text is the view of the most obvious and most recommended. Background and writing that will reduce the contrast in color, while the black background and white lettering will cause reflections that are not profitable. Both are less recommended.