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Digital device use is a recognised risk factor for dry eye disease, owing to reduced blink frequency and amplitude during screen use, with studies repeatedly proving this association in adults1. More recently, and increasingly, the same appears to apply to children’s screen use too. A collaborative
A central clinical measure in the diagnosis and evaluation of dry eye disease is the tear film breakup time (BUT). Traditionally, its measurement has relied on the instillation of sodium fluorescein and subjective evaluation of the tear film breakup time using the slit lamp biomicroscope. More recen
The world of ocular surface health has lately sprawled, owing to a rapid, radical revolution in understanding and practice. How did we get there as a field and, more importantly, how can you get there as a clinician, and keep up?
Of all the things we’ve had enough of lately, screen time is surely one. We might be navigating endless spreadsheets, overlapping Zoom meetings, frustrating home schooling, or helplessly doom-scrolling at midnight, but we’re also extremely fortunate to be able to learn and connect online.
In 2011, we were taking in five times as much information each day as we had done 25 years earlier¹, and this was before most people owned smartphones. Nowadays many of us spend a majority of our waking hours looking at or scrolling down screens.