Don’t Strain Your Eyes! Do These!

If you’re looking at your computer screen and reading a blog or any website with small characters (normally 10 pixels or points), you are straining your eyes and putting your face closer to the monitor just to read the characters.  That is a bad habit!  Even if you have a 20/20 eye sight, your good vision will deteriorate faster if you keep reading small characters.




Please remember that once your eyes deteriorate, there is no way that you can “rebuild” your eyesight.  The next thing that will happen is you will be wearing eyeglasses.

To protect your valuable eye sight, you must do the following preventive measures:

• Blink your eyes every 10 minutes to lubricate your eye membranes;
  
• Close your eyes for at least one minute every 30 minutes;
  
• Put a bottle of water on top of your computer table.  Drink at least one-half glass of water every 2 hours; and
  
• Enlarge or “zoom” the characters on your computer monitor.
  

To enlarge or “zoom” the characters on your computer monitor, do the following steps, depending on the type of browser you are using, such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari:

• Left-click on View
  
• Left-click on Zoom
  
• Right-click on 125% or 150%
  

Below are three sets of characters showing the size of characters displayed on your computer monitor.  The first set of characters has 10-point size characters, the second set has 12-point size, while the third set has 14 point size characters.  You will see that number three set of characters is pleasing to your eyes.

1.  These characters are 10-pt. size

2.  These characters are 12-pt. size

3.  These characters are 14-pt. size

If you have tips on how to protect your eyes in front of the computer monitor, please leave your tips and comments below.  Thanks