CHILDREN as young as three are developing eye problems and struggling to read because they spend too much time playing on iPads.
This is according to Professor Jannie Ferreira, former head of the University of Johannesburg’s optometry department.
Speaking at the Cotlands Southern Africa play conference yesterday, he said a three-year-old patient he had treated recently squinted so badly that the child’s eye looked directly at his nose. He had been spending three hours a day on an iPad, watching videos and playing games.
Myopia, or short-sightedness, was increasing worldwide due to the time children spent in front of computers, phones or tablets, Ferreira said.
“Short-sightedness is at epidemic proportions, according to the World Health Organisation,” he said.
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