One day after Lasik laser eye surgery is very important for the process of healing. No strain of eyes is entertained during this one day time and eye condition must be maintained very easy. Hence, it is important to stay away from using any screens, including phone, tablet, watching television, reading or video games. These activities can be resumed after one day of the laser surgery. However, according to the FDA, you need to wait for a few days to get back to these activities and take off to work. However, the time to get back to the normal vision with no temporary visual disturbances and subside any other discomforts.
Why Screen Sensitive?
Compared to many other activities, watching television or viewing any screen that includes smartphones, tablet and other screens exhaust eyes more and faster. It is because computers, television, smartphones and tablets emit different light wavelengths, like LED, white light wavelengths and blue wavelengths and these are harmful to the yes. The more the eyes look at these, the more they get strained and damaging. After the eye surgery, like Lasik or other laser surgeries, the surgical site within the eye becomes very sensitive and needs better protection, compared to the normal conditions of the eyes. And more than anything, even a normal eye can get affected, while watching the screen, since the rate of blinking the eyes naturally gets decreased and this risk is more with the surgery eyes.
Factors Determine Screen Off Time
The patient has to minimize the screen time, for a few days ideally, after the Lasik surgery procedure. Otherwise, the eyes experience drying and become easily strained. Not only that screen time before proper primary healing. The time to stay away from television or any screen is not the same for all the Lasik patients and it varies according to several factors, like the following.
- The kind of laser eye surgery the patient has gone through
- The prescription of the eye or eye condition, prior to the surgery
- The kind of technology or technique used for the laser eye surgery, especially with microkeratome or purely laser
- How far the television is watched and the brightness of the TV screen
- Size of the TV screen
- The general health condition of the patient, which decides healing time of any surgical site
- The rate of blinking the eyes to prevent or minimize the eyes to get dried
Having understood these factors, it is always better to stay away from the screen for considerably longer time.