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Medical Forum / General / Vision / April 2006Eye irritation caused by watching HDTV
HI: Just purchased a 42 in plasma hdtv that is set up in my living room approximately 8 ft from sitting areas. When watching tv for more than 1 hour , i get a some type of eye irritation/inflamation. My wife also says watching tv hurts her eyes (even though we could watch hours of analog tv without any of those symptoms). Have any of you experienced any of those symptoms or is it the tv? > HI: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > hours of analog tv without any of those symptoms). > Have any of you experienced any of those symptoms or is it the tv? it could be that you don't blink as often as you did when watching your old tv. Try to consiously blink more often. SF describe the physical symptoms please. how does the irritation feel? does your eye water?, etc. i suggest its dry eye caused by insufficient blinking. it happens when a person is very attentive to a task. under such conditions your blink rate goes down to about half of normal and allows the ocular surface to become dry in areas. try using artificial tear supplements like Systane or Refresh Plus and see if it gets better. It felt like I had pink eye, burning sensation but without the yellow mucus. the bottom of both my eyes are itchy. I went to the optician and he prescribed some tobradex and systane as well as removing my contacts for 1 week and the irritation went down to 0 (it was really bad , with bright sun realy hurting the eyes). Last night , I watched the game and again the irritation appeared. ( as i mentioned I can watch hours of tv on my old analog tv without any symptoms). I did not use the drops yesterday however. But could Plasma TVs cause this eye irritation in which case I am considering returning it or is it due to something else >Have any of you experienced any of those symptoms or is it the tv? To get to the TV end of this, you might try posting here and see if anyone has had or knows of this kind of problem: rec.video sci.electronics.misc Also, this is pretty much of a stretch: http://www.safetyline.wa.gov.au/pagebin/mechhazd0015.htm but you might try searching something like: plasma tv "eye irritation" and then changing the parameters a bit, (e.g. "eye strain)to see if you come up with anything HTH Roy Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime |
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