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6 Tips for caring your eyes from harmful blue light

Rukshan Pramoditha
3 min readJul 21, 2021
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Laptops and other smart devices that have screens emit blue light which may be harmful to your eyes. Blue light has a short wavelength and high energy. Longer exposure to blue light can cause long-term effects to your eyes such as eye strain, eye fatigue, etc. It can also disrupt your regular sleep patterns, which is also a severe threat to your life.

As we’ve already adapted to using these smart devices, it is almost impossible to manage our day-to-day tasks without using them. This means you expose to some sort of blue light and you cannot avoid that. However, there are certain ways to minimize the effect of harmful blue light. In this post, I’ll discuss some useful tips that will help you to protect your eyes from harmful blue light. You can do all of them with no additional cost or time.

Tip 1: When purchasing, look for a device with a low blue light display

Most of us don’t consider this. The low blue light display is one of the most important requirements for a laptop or smartphone. Most modern devices from reputed brands come with low blue light displays that are designed to minimize…

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Rukshan Pramoditha
Rukshan Pramoditha

Written by Rukshan Pramoditha

3,000,000+ Views | BSc in Stats (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) | Top 50 Data Science, AI/ML Technical Writer on Medium

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