TEMPORARY BLINDNESS TIED TO MOBILE USE IN DARK: DOCTORS.

Using your device just before sleep may lead to a condition called transient smartphone blindness, say doctors who reported a case of two women in the United Kingdom suffering from temporary vision impairment in one eye after looking at a bright cell phone screen in a dark room. 
In the first case, a 22 year old woman had trouble seeing with her right eye at night while in bed. This happened multiple times a week for a year. However, her vision was fine in her left eye, and in both eyes the following day.
In another case, a 40 year old woman reported not being able to see with one eye when she woke up before sunrise. The vision problem lasted about fifteen minutes, and happened on and off for six months.
In both cases, doctors later found that the vision problems occurrred only after the women had viewed their smartphone for several minutes, while lying on their side in bed, the 'Live Science' reported. These problems happened because the patients were looking at their phone with just one eye, with the other eye blocked by a pillow when they were lying down, the doctors said. In this situation, the eye blocked by the pillow becomes adapted to the dark, while the other eye looking at the smartphone is adapted to the light, the doctors said.
When the smartphone is turned off, the light adapted eye is perceived to be 'blind', until it also adjusts to the dark. 
"As they can see well with the dark adapted eye, it seems to them that they have lost vision in the eye which - a moment ago - was viewing the smartphone normally", researchers wrote.
In an experiment, the patients were asked to look at their phone with both eyes, and also with each eye individually. The patients said they did not experience symptoms when looking at their phone with both eyes, and if they looked at their phone with one eye, the symptoms were always in the eye that had been viewing the smartphone.
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