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Almost as a lark, the investigators decided to ask the parents of 479 of their patients about the nighttime lighting in their children's bedrooms. It was a shot in the dark, but what they found was truly eye opening. While 10% of the kids who slept in darkness before age two later became nearsighted, the figure rose to 34% among those who slept with a night light, and an astonishing 55%--nearly a fivefold increase--among those who slept with the room lights on. It may be that eyes need a period of darkness to develop properly. Bedroom lighting...
There's no point in feeling guilty if your children slept with the lights on as infants. "This is not something that anyone would have predicted," Stone says. Furthermore, as I and about 65 million other Americans can attest, being nearsighted is no big deal. True, we're at a slightly greater risk of developing glaucoma and detached retinas, but for most of us, nearsightedness is a minor inconvenience. Besides, I think glasses are kind of cool...
...find something that could only generously be called a ticket line. Now, when I was a kid and you wanted to show how much you liked whichever four people happened to make up Yes at the time, you showed up with a sleeping bag and slept out for your tickets. You liked Yes so much you were willing to go to school smelling like you liked...
...indicates that children who regularly sleep with the light on before they reach the age of two exhibit a higher rate of developing myopia, or nearsightedness, later in life. In fact, says the team, the more intense the light, the greater the chance of myopia. Of children who had slept with a night light before the age of two, 34 percent became myopic; of those who had slumbered under a room light, the figure rose to 55 percent. Meanwhile, only 10 percent of those who had slept in the dark as infants were later reported as nearsighted...
...seem prudent to let a child under two sleep in the dark. At the same time, it makes sense not to get obsessive about it: "This doesn?t mean you have to change the diaper in the dark," says Gorman. As for those with older children who?ve already slept in lighted rooms, "don?t worry and don?t feel guilty about it," she says. The results of the study are not yet proven, and for most people myopia is mostly an inconvenience that can be corrected by glasses or contact lenses...