Usually, while recovery from any health issues, it is quite common for people to stay at home and keep watching television, working with computer, watching videos in mobile. However, it is not an encouraging practice after the Lasik surgery. After the Lasik surgery, the patient has to be away from almost any kind of screens.
Phone Usage After Lasik Surgery
Usage of mobile phone has been increased, after smartphones have been launched into the market and internet is started to be accessible from the mobile phones. So, we tend to start using the mobile phone to just to reply for a Watsapp message and we tend to forget time, hours together, in chatting over Watsapp. This is a dangerous circumstance for the patients, who have just undergone Lasik surgery.
Lasik surgery is a special laser eye surgery, which has faster recovery time than the other laser eye surgeries. So, you can get back to the normal activities almost in a day or two. During this time, the patient has to keep the screen away from the eye sight. In case one keeps looking the screen of the mobile or computer or television, the eyes get more strained and vision becomes uncomfortable. It may also lead to dry eyes, as the natural blinking rate would be reduced to a greater extent.
Changing Phone Settings Accordingly
Though the Lasik patient avoids the mobile screen for two days after the surgery, he or she cannot stay away for weeks together, realistically. So, while minimizing the screen time can be of great help for healing process, small changes in phone settings can reduce the risks of dry eye and discomfort to the eyes to a much better extent.
- Sending messages, setting reminders, setting alarms, performing searches and many other tasks can be performed using voice controls. So, switch to voice control operation, in order to make use of the mobiles, without affecting the day to day communication with the world and workplace. Android mobile users can also make use of Google Assistant, which can perform the tasks you wish, by responding to your voice. iPhone users can get the same help from Siri, similarly.
- Set the backlight options, according to the comfort levels. Go to your smartphone display settings and decrease the brightness to the level, it does not disturb your eyes. Lasik is a light sensitivity eye surgery and hence it would be a good idea to invert the mobile phone colors and it changes the backlight color to be black and the text looks in white color.
- Screen readers can help you to listen the text displayed on the screen, without any need of reading, by looking at the screen. For instance, text messages can also be read using screen readers.
- You got to increase the text size to the level of comfort to look by eyes to read. The default text size must be increased to at least 5 points more.
So, including the general post surgery care, such as applying the eye drops to the eyes and taking long rest, you can do these small changes in the mobile phone, so that your essential phone associated tasks would not be disturbed.