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Barry J. Linder, MD, MS Diplomate, American Board of Ophthalmology

Screen Time Can Cause Dry Eye

Pandemic Screen Time Drives Up Incidence of Dry Eye Disease

Dry Eye has multiple causes, but a cause that has grown considerably during the pandemic has been the dramatic increase in screen time due to work-at-home and home-schooling situations.

In short, we are getting way more screen time than is good for our eyes, and we are not taking the precautions to avoid triggering Dry Eye Disease.

Blink More, Stare Less to Avoid Dry Eye Disease

We already knew that an over-abundance of staring at screens has been negatively impacting our eye health, so when COVID-19 confined us inside, we ended up diverting ourselves much more by staring at computer monitors, for both work and pleasure. And business meetings that used to get us out from behind screens now had us parked at our computers all day for virtual business meetings!Read More »Pandemic Screen Time Drives Up Incidence of Dry Eye Disease