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Experts warn against using phones in the dark

LONDON: Health experts warn that looking at your smartphone while lying in bed at night could wreak havoc on your vision.

The warning came after two women went temporarily blind from constantly checking their phones in the dark. Their cases were featured in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine where doctors described it as “transient smartphone blindness,” reported the Associated Press.

To prevent this phenomenon, doctors said make sure to use both eyes when looking at your smartphone screen in the dark.

The report said the women complained of recurring episodes of temporary vision loss for up to 15 minutes. They were subjected to variety of medical exams, MRI scans and heart tests. Yet doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with them to explain the problem.

An eye specialist later explained that both women typically looked at their smartphones with only one eye while resting on their side in bed in the dark – their other eye was covered by the pillow.

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