As digital devices like smartphones become ubiquitous, the number of youngsters suffering from a vision disorder called strabismus is on the rise. The disorder causes eyes to not properly align with each other when looking at an object. Strabismus can cause the eyes to cross in (esotropia) or turn out (exotropia).
Ophthalmologists are urging limits on excessive cell phone use by children.
Koji Kawamoto, an ophthalmology specialist in Japan, published a book “スマホ失明” (Smartphone and Blindness) in 2022. He wrote that spending a lot of time looking at a smartphone can cause one’s eyes to be fixed in an inward-focus position. In the long run, it can cause “acute acquired comitant esotropia (AACE).” AACE often occurs in myopic patients who look at close objects for a long time….