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With the coming of the smartphones and other digital devices, people are spending a lot of their time on these devices. As most of the people works in the day time, so people use these devices at night when they return from work. Use of these devices late night affects the sleep cycle and therefore the person feels sleepy the next day.

EFFECTS ON EYES

These smartphones emit a large large amount of blue light which can damage the light sensitive cells in the retina. Scientists advices us not to use use blue-light emitting device before going to bed because it hampers our sleep cycle.

SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION

 Our body is designed in such a way that as the night approaches we starts feeling sleepy. This is because of a harmone called Melatonin. It is secretd into the blood stream by the Pineal gland present in the middle of the brain. Melatonin is sleep-inducing harmone. Blue light effects the secretion of this harmone the most.

               So exposure to lot of blue light before going to bed affects our sleep cycle.

HOW TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM

The most obvious solution is to stop using these blue-light emitting devices atleast 90 minutes  before going to bed. But if you can’nt resist yourself from using these devices in bed or before going to bed ,use blue-light filter apps to reduce blue light coming from smartphones.

These days many manufacturers are bundling these sort of features in their devices