Wednesday 28/2025 – 06:21 am
Health experts warned that Bad sleep habits In children, they may cause nearsightedness, as the number of children who need glasses increases at unprecedented rates, at anxious early ages, and they get severe when looking at the blackboard or suffering from blurred vision, even during watching the TV.
According to what was published in the Hindustan Times, the nearsightedness is a situation in which distant things appear blurry, which requires the use of glasses to correct vision, and while this phenomenon is primarily attributed to screens, there is another unprepared reason that contributes to the deterioration of the vision of young children, which is negative sleep habits.
Bad sleep habits contribute to children with short -sightedness
According to health experts, sleep is necessary to preserve public health, physical, mental and emotional, as it is not only necessary to restore physical activity, but also to improve cognitive functions and public health, as sleep supports children’s growth and development, and lack of sleep with time can increase the risk of long -term health problems, and evidence indicates that lack of sleep, in terms of its duration and quality, is related to the development of a limitations in children, and with the continued high number of high number Nearly cases, it is important to understand the role of lack of sleep as a contributing factor.
What are bad sleep habits?
- Parents allow their children to spend more time on their phones, which affects their sleep patterns.
- Less and less than 7-8 hours per night.
- Poor sleep, frequent waking up and irregular sleep tables.
- Excessive use of the screen before bed.
Why is the lack of sleep causing myopia?
Because of lack of sleep, a decrease in the production of melatonin and vice versa occurs, which leads to a disorder of the retinal timing and may affect the growth of the eye, as the lack of sleep also leads to a decrease in dopamine levels and signs, and this dopamine inhibits excessive growth of the eye, and its levels in turn increase the length of the eye axis, which leads to the development of limitations, and often children deprived of sleep are less active and spend less time in the air Shot, which exacerbates the risks.
