Mayo Clinic Health Manager
Get free personalized health guidance for you and your family.
Get Started
About our e-newsletters
- Free e-newsletters
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- We do not share your e-mail address
Housecall, our weekly general-interest e-newsletter, keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics with timely, reliable, practical information, recipes, blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts and more. Our biweekly topic-specific e-newsletters also include blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts, and other useful information that will help you manage your health.
Housecall Archives
Mayo Clinic Housecall
Stay up to date on the latest health information.
What you get
- Free weekly e-newsletter
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- Recipes, tools and other helpful information
- We do not share your e-mail address
Definition
By Mayo Clinic staffEyestrain occurs when your eyes get tired from intense use, such as driving a car for extended periods, reading or working at a computer.
Although eyestrain can be annoying, it usually isn't serious and goes away once you rest your eyes. In some cases, signs and symptoms of eyestrain can indicate an underlying eye condition that needs treatment. Although you may not be able to change the nature of your job or all the factors that can cause eyestrain, you can take steps to reduce eyestrain.
- Eye comfort exercises. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/pdffiles/exercises.pdf. Accessed May 4, 2010.
- Computers and your eyes. Prevent Blindness America. http://www.preventblindness.org/eye_problems/computers.html. Accessed May 4, 2010.
- Computer workstations: Monitors. U.S. Department of Labor. http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/computerworkstations/components_monitors.html. Accessed May 4, 2010.
- Computer vision syndrome. American Optometric Association. http://www.aoa.org/x5374.xml. Accessed May 4, 2010.
- Yan Z, et al. Computer vision syndrome: A widely spreading but largely unknown epidemic among computer users. Computers in Human Behavior. 2008;24:2026.
- Robertson DM (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. May 10, 2010.
Find Mayo Clinic on