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Show AlO The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Thursday, May 13, 1999 Children’sNight Lights May Lead to Nearsightedness Dim glow may increase odds Genetic and environmental factors, such as nutrition and eyestrain from television and computerscreens, are thought to hurt people’s vision. The Philadelphia study raises the provocative new possibility that too much light prompts the eyes to grow excessive- of developing myopia by 50% THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Children whosleep under the soft glow of a nightlightto keep the scary monsters ly and skewstheir natural focus during away may be morelikely to suffer a real andlifelong problem — nearsightedness. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia say youngsters who sleep in the first two years of life, when the eyes develop mostrapidly. such as heredity. years later, the experts said. “T don’t think a retrospective aeney A morereliable approach would be to conduct controlled experiments in theilluminated and darkened bedrooms of children, then check their vision several take into account obvious risk factors, “There are other factors involved in based on a questionnaireis valid,” Robert Cykiert, an ophthalmologist attthe New York University School of Medicine. sighted,” said researcher Donald Mutti of “They're grasping at straws.” the University of California at Berkeley. Also, they said the study is flawed because the researchers relied on informa- lished in today’s issue of the journal Nature. “Just as the body needs torest, this suggests that the eyes need a period of darkness,” said ophthalmologist Graham Quinn, the study’s lead author. much as 50 percent morelikely to develop myopia, or nearsightedness, as they as a street light outside a window. childhood myopia, the most important of which is whether the parents are near- The study of 479 children was pub- adimlylighted room until age 2 may be as However, eye specialists from many institutions dismissed the study as premature and incomplete. Theysaid the researchers had failed to arsightedness results when the eye grows excessively and its shape is too long rather than perfectly round. This causes incoming light to converge in front tion supplied by the parents of nearsighted children after several years. Nor did they account for other, stronger sources of light that parents cannot control, such of the retina insteadofonit. Later in life, Nearsighted people are more likely to develop macularseen tion, detached retinas and other disorders that can lead to blindness. The Philadelphia researchers asked the parents of children who had been patients at the doctors’ eye clinic to recall, the lighting conditions in the someetiet) bedrooms between birth and age total of 172 of the children oe in darkness; 10 percent developed nearsightedness. A total of 232 slept with a nightlight; 34 percent had become nearsighted. An additional 75 slept with a lamp on; 55 percent developed myopia. Quinn acknowledged the study does not conclusively demonstrate that low light cause myopia, but he urged parents to provide sleeping infants and toddlers with a dark bedroom — within reason. “We don’t want parents to overreact and start putting up blackoutshades,” he said. 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