Do not use the phone in the dark even by mistake, 30 year old woman lost her eyesight – beware smartphone addiction dont watch in dark

New Delhi. Technology and smart gadgets are no less than an addiction. This addiction can also have a bad effect on your health. A woman from Hyderabad also had a similar addiction. She used to use the smartphone at night. His habit of scrolling social media at night became a problem for him. Because of this he lost his eyesight.

Dr Sudhir who is a neurologist in Hyderabad took to Twitter to share how a 30-year-old woman has damaged her eyesight by staring at her smartphone in the dark at night.

What were the symptoms?

In this Twitter thread, the doctor told that one of his patients named Manju came to him with some symptoms. These symptoms were seeing floaters, bright flashes of light, dark zig-zag patterns, and sometimes loss of vision. When he got his checkup done, it was revealed that he had Smartphone Vision Syndrome (SVS), which causes eye problems and can even lead to blindness.

Had to use the phone in the dark

According to the doctor, the reason behind his loss of vision was that he spent most of the time on the phone in the dark. She was following this routine and habit for almost a year and a half. Dr. Sudhir wrote in his Twitter thread- “I checked the history and her symptoms started coming when she left her job to take care of her child. After this, he got into the habit of browsing his smartphone for hours every day. This included smartphone use in the dark for 2 hours daily.

However, after knowing about his routine, the doctor prescribed him medicine and asked him to reduce the screen time. After less use of medicines and screens, his vision started coming back. Manju was cured after 1 month. The trouble he was facing for one and a half year in sight got cured. Now his eyesight is normal and for some time he had stopped seeing at night, that too got cured.

Where Manju was treated at the right time, but in today’s time there are many people who are struggling with this disease. It is dangerous that due to this disease, the eyesight can go half or even completely. It’s time to keep smartphones or similar gadgets and screen time to a minimum.