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Outpatient volume surges by 30%! Many young and middle-aged people use their phones to "swipe" into hospitals during the Spring Festival. Doctors remind
Guangming.com2025-02-08 07:19
During the Spring Festival holiday, many young people go out to pay New Year's greetings.
In addition to being urged to get married and asked about grades by "third uncle and fourth aunt"
Just playing "stare at each other" with distant cousins
(I don’t know what to say, so I’ll just play with my phone)
Recently, many people have
Watch short videos and play games during the Spring Festival holiday
Causes eye discomfort
Choose to come to the hospital for examination
(Outpatient volume in some hospitals surged by 30%)
The reporter went to Foshan First People's Hospital on the morning of the 6th. The patient Xiaowen told the reporter that she had been blinking frequently recently and her eyes were dry and uncomfortable. She came to the hospital's ophthalmology department as soon as she got to work on a weekday. She said that one of the main reasons for her eye discomfort was that she would turn off the lights and play with her mobile phone when coaxing her baby to sleep.
The reporter learned that recently in Wuhan, Hubei, 28-year-old Ms. Hu frantically watched TV series on her mobile phone for several days during the Spring Festival holiday. As a result, she developed dry eyes, photophobia, and decreased vision and was diagnosed with dry eyes.
The doctor pointed out that this symptom was closely related to her recent long-term use of electronic products.
A patient receives aerosol fumigation treatment in the dry eye treatment room of the ophthalmology outpatient clinic (Photo courtesy of Wuhan Central Hospital)
Li Guopei, chief ophthalmologist at Foshan First People's Hospital, said that the number of outpatients increased by more than 30% year-on-year from the holiday clinic on the third day of the Lunar New Year to the official return of all medical staff on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. Director Li said that the number of outpatients in the ophthalmology department reached 460 on February 5, and most of the patients were teenagers and middle-aged people. Many of them felt dry eyes, fatigue, foreign body sensation, and sometimes eye pain and headache.
After a long vacation, how can we alleviate this holiday syndrome?
Doctors suggest that you follow the "20-20-20 rule", which means that after looking at your phone for 20 minutes, you should take a break for more than 20 seconds and look at something 20 feet (about 6 meters) away.
Li Guopei said that we should avoid using our eyes at close range for a long time, especially when looking at mobile phones, keep the eyeballs more than 30 cm away from the phone, and try to avoid using the phone in the dark. In addition, when using the phone, we can consciously blink more to keep the eye surface moist and reduce dry eye symptoms. When necessary, we can use artificial tears.
In addition to paying attention to the use of your eyes, after the long holiday, everyone should also pay attention to adjusting their sleep and diet, and appropriately "cut off" their mobile phones so that their body and mind can better adapt to the rhythm of work and school.
He Nanyun, chief physician of the Department of Health Management Medicine at Foshan First People's Hospital, said that for sleep, we should develop a relatively reasonable schedule, and it is recommended to go to bed half an hour earlier than the usual working schedule; for diet, we should avoid consuming some high-fat, high-salt, and high-protein foods, and try to eat less spicy food; also, we should reduce the use of mobile phones, especially try to avoid using mobile phones before going to bed, to prevent our nerves from being overly excited.
Comprehensive: Foshan+APP, Foshan News Media Center (Reporter Luo Minyan, Wen Qiao)
Source: Xiaoqiang Hotline
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Guangming.com2025-02-08 07:19
During the Spring Festival holiday, many young people go out to pay New Year's greetings.
In addition to being urged to get married and asked about grades by "third uncle and fourth aunt"
Just playing "stare at each other" with distant cousins
(I don’t know what to say, so I’ll just play with my phone)
Recently, many people have
Watch short videos and play games during the Spring Festival holiday
Causes eye discomfort
Choose to come to the hospital for examination
(Outpatient volume in some hospitals surged by 30%)
The reporter went to Foshan First People's Hospital on the morning of the 6th. The patient Xiaowen told the reporter that she had been blinking frequently recently and her eyes were dry and uncomfortable. She came to the hospital's ophthalmology department as soon as she got to work on a weekday. She said that one of the main reasons for her eye discomfort was that she would turn off the lights and play with her mobile phone when coaxing her baby to sleep.
The reporter learned that recently in Wuhan, Hubei, 28-year-old Ms. Hu frantically watched TV series on her mobile phone for several days during the Spring Festival holiday. As a result, she developed dry eyes, photophobia, and decreased vision and was diagnosed with dry eyes.
The doctor pointed out that this symptom was closely related to her recent long-term use of electronic products.
A patient receives aerosol fumigation treatment in the dry eye treatment room of the ophthalmology outpatient clinic (Photo courtesy of Wuhan Central Hospital)
Li Guopei, chief ophthalmologist at Foshan First People's Hospital, said that the number of outpatients increased by more than 30% year-on-year from the holiday clinic on the third day of the Lunar New Year to the official return of all medical staff on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. Director Li said that the number of outpatients in the ophthalmology department reached 460 on February 5, and most of the patients were teenagers and middle-aged people. Many of them felt dry eyes, fatigue, foreign body sensation, and sometimes eye pain and headache.
After a long vacation, how can we alleviate this holiday syndrome?
Doctors suggest that you follow the "20-20-20 rule", which means that after looking at your phone for 20 minutes, you should take a break for more than 20 seconds and look at something 20 feet (about 6 meters) away.
Li Guopei said that we should avoid using our eyes at close range for a long time, especially when looking at mobile phones, keep the eyeballs more than 30 cm away from the phone, and try to avoid using the phone in the dark. In addition, when using the phone, we can consciously blink more to keep the eye surface moist and reduce dry eye symptoms. When necessary, we can use artificial tears.
In addition to paying attention to the use of your eyes, after the long holiday, everyone should also pay attention to adjusting their sleep and diet, and appropriately "cut off" their mobile phones so that their body and mind can better adapt to the rhythm of work and school.
He Nanyun, chief physician of the Department of Health Management Medicine at Foshan First People's Hospital, said that for sleep, we should develop a relatively reasonable schedule, and it is recommended to go to bed half an hour earlier than the usual working schedule; for diet, we should avoid consuming some high-fat, high-salt, and high-protein foods, and try to eat less spicy food; also, we should reduce the use of mobile phones, especially try to avoid using mobile phones before going to bed, to prevent our nerves from being overly excited.
Comprehensive: Foshan+APP, Foshan News Media Center (Reporter Luo Minyan, Wen Qiao)
Source: Xiaoqiang Hotline
zhttps://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1823442864874127599&wfr=spider&for=pc