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Everyone knows that watching too close to TV is prohibited by parents since… well, since the dawn of television. Has anyone wonder why you shouldn’t watch too near the television? Or you just have to believe what parents have to say, because they are parents and parents know what best for you.

The story goes that if you watch television too close then it will ruin your eyes and could possibly make you blind. The story is so scary that I still partially believe it. I don’t dare to watch TV too close.

So is it true? Apparently it is an exaggeration of what’s going on. The only thing that happen when you watch TV less than 2 meter is making your eye tire much faster. Your eyes would have eyestrain and tired eye that burn and watery, but no blindness.

This doesn’t mean that you could go and watch TV as close as you want though as tired eyes make nearsightedness. It will make your eye rapidly more faster to get nearsightedness from good eye to bad eye.

Once, I watch too close to the television in my friends dorm and also in the dark which makes my eyes super tired really fast. The next day, my right eye got nearsightedness. It only took one night to make your eyes go bad.

What’s up with the scary story that watching TV too close will obliterate your eye then? Well, back then, when the television is huge, heavy, transmit excessive x-rays and dangerous radiation it make sense not to watch too close.

Television back then and now is very different. Nowadays TV don’t transmit too much radiation and safer. Still, safer doesn’t mean it is good for your eyes.

posted: 11 June 17
under: Health Myth