Hmm... we know that the Health Promotion Board encourages kids to play outdoors and take visual breaks from near work to combat myopia. Scientific studies also shown that near work is associated with myopia i.e. if your kid reads 2 or more books per week, he/she is 2 times more likely to develop myopia.
Question 1: Should babies watch TV?
Question 2: Would they get myopia from TV watching?
Question 3: Would the harmful rays from TV affect their eyes?
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Answer for Q1: Babies should watch TV. TV is an attractive stimulus for babies. Colour, motion, facial recognition and audio cues helps to develop the neural connections between the eye and the brain and within the brain.
Answer for Q2: Babies are highly unlikely to get myopia from TV. Babies' eyes are usually hyperopic to begin with. As the eyes grow longer and bigger, the amount of hyperopia (long-sightness) reduces till they achieve perfect eyesight (emmetropia). If the eye grows longer than it should for its focussing power, you get myopia. This process takes several years. In addition, TV watching is not strictly speaking a near task. A near task is defined as reading something within one metre. Most TV sets are placed more than 1 metre away from our eyes.
Answer for Q3: There are no harmful rays coming out of our TVs! There is no need to install 'special filters' or spend extra money on EMI spectacle lenses. The radiation coming out of TV sets is Infra-red rays and they are generally harmful. All 'hot' items emit Infra-red and they are almost everywhere. The only way that Infra-red rays can harm the eyes is when the heat gets so high that our eyes are BBQ-ed! That of course does not happen unless you are trapped in a burning room.
Question 1: Should babies watch TV?
Question 2: Would they get myopia from TV watching?
Question 3: Would the harmful rays from TV affect their eyes?
Let me share my training in this Blog
Answer for Q1: Babies should watch TV. TV is an attractive stimulus for babies. Colour, motion, facial recognition and audio cues helps to develop the neural connections between the eye and the brain and within the brain.
Answer for Q2: Babies are highly unlikely to get myopia from TV. Babies' eyes are usually hyperopic to begin with. As the eyes grow longer and bigger, the amount of hyperopia (long-sightness) reduces till they achieve perfect eyesight (emmetropia). If the eye grows longer than it should for its focussing power, you get myopia. This process takes several years. In addition, TV watching is not strictly speaking a near task. A near task is defined as reading something within one metre. Most TV sets are placed more than 1 metre away from our eyes.
Answer for Q3: There are no harmful rays coming out of our TVs! There is no need to install 'special filters' or spend extra money on EMI spectacle lenses. The radiation coming out of TV sets is Infra-red rays and they are generally harmful. All 'hot' items emit Infra-red and they are almost everywhere. The only way that Infra-red rays can harm the eyes is when the heat gets so high that our eyes are BBQ-ed! That of course does not happen unless you are trapped in a burning room.
natalie watching hi5@3 months old (26/05/09)
Favourite TV shows - Thomas & friends, Bob the builder, Dino the gift dragon
Genre -3D Animation
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