Why are you feeling fatigue? Could it be digital devices?

If you ever experience tired, strained eyes, headaches, and blurred vision, you might be suffering from fatigue!

Fatigue is a type of feeling which occurs when certain eye muscles tighten when one continuously focuses on digital screens. As the world becomes more digital, people are suffering from a particular type of visual fatigue, called digital fatigue.

While there are many causes of fatigue such as stress, overscheduled activities, illness and long work hours, digital devices are huge contributors to this problem. Devices such as smartphones, tablets, computers or e-readers emit a significant amount of blue light.

The good and adverse effects of blue light depending on the use of these devices. For example, if you use digital screens for a limited time, you won’t feel tired. But if you are overexposed to blue light from digital screens, especially at night, it can disrupt your natural sleeping patterns and leave you feeling exhausted for the whole day. It’s a fact that just about everyone is exposed to a higher concentration of blue light from digital devices today, more than ever before, just because of their high efficiency and ubiquity.

When you spend a long time in front of digital screens, blue light from these devices will delay the release of melatonin in your body. This not only leads to fatigue the whole day but leads to difficulty in falling asleep at night as well. Melatonin is a hormone that regulates a sleep-wake cycle, which helps balance the cycle between sleep and wake up to get refreshed feeling the next morning. Therefore, if you are experiencing any symptoms of fatigue, you need to treat it as soon as possible.

How to get relief from digital fatigue?

• Wearing anti-fatigue blue light glasses is a perfect way to get relief from digital fatigue. These glasses block up to 59% blue light which produces more melatonin hormone which can help you fall asleep at night. You can wear them while working on devices, in natural sunlight and while watching television. Apart from that, you can wear them at least three hours before bedtime to say goodbye to the tired feeling.
• You can also use an app or program that filters harmful blue rays. These programs automatically limit the amount of blue light emitted from your devices after sunset.
• Saying goodnight to technology two hours before going to bed is another way to limit the amount of blue light, and get relief from digital eye strain.
• You can also limit screen time when you are not working to reduce the negative effect of blue light. And you can also follow the 20-20-20 rule which is frequent breaking rules during working on digital devices.

As you can see, overexposure to blue light from digital screens is one of the key reasons why you feel digital fatigue. And wearing blue light protective glasses is one of the best ways to perform better at work, fall asleep at night and wake up relaxed the next morning.

So, don’t waste another day feeling exhausted. Get yourself a pair of blue light blockers and make your life active and tireless.

Blue light blocking glasses block ALL blue light — including healthy amounts, and distort your color perception.