Natural Light vs. Digital Glare: How Parents Can Create a Vision-Friendly Environment for Babies

For babies, whose eyes are still underdeveloped, this is an area of concern.

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Infants are sensitive to light and excessive artificial light and screens can alter their vision, sleep, and even impact their cognitive functioning. Tremendous importance needs to be placed on the moderation of screen and artificial light exposure due to its adverse effects, in contrast to natural light encouraging healthy eye growth. Parents can adopt measures to ensure children are raised in an eye-friendly environment. This involves striking the appropriate balance between both types of lighting.

ADVANTAGE OF NATURAL LIGHT FOR INFANT VISION
Natural light plays a pivotal role for healthy eye growth for babies. Spending time outdoors in natural light as infants is said to lower the risk of myopia (nearsightedness) in later stages of life. This also helps to regulate the body's internal body clock (circadian rhythm), thus improving patterns of sleep. In addition to these benefits, sunlight is significant in the creation of dopamine in the retina, which helps regulate eye growth. If the rate of eye growth is not controlled it can elongate the eyeball, which is a primary issue that leads to myopia.

Natural light, unlike artificial light, contains a number of different wavelengths, making it comfortable for developing eyes of a baby.