Comments on: does using a computer screen worsen rosacea symptoms ? http://rosacea-support.org/does-using-a-computer-screen-worsen-rosacea-symptoms.html Where the rosacea community meets to support each other Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:03:32 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Pascoe http://rosacea-support.org/does-using-a-computer-screen-worsen-rosacea-symptoms.html/comment-page-1#comment-19239 David Pascoe Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:23:46 +0000 http://rosacea-support.org/does-using-a-computer-screen-worsen-rosacea-symptoms.html#comment-19239 Thanks for your thoughts Charles, I haven't heard many explanations and I had never thought of this before. davidp. Thanks for your thoughts Charles, I haven’t heard many explanations and I had never thought of this before.

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]]> By: Charles http://rosacea-support.org/does-using-a-computer-screen-worsen-rosacea-symptoms.html/comment-page-1#comment-18805 Charles Thu, 29 May 2008 04:36:14 +0000 http://rosacea-support.org/does-using-a-computer-screen-worsen-rosacea-symptoms.html#comment-18805 Allow me to suggest a possible causal link. These studies were all done before LCDs became common, so the test subjects were all using CRTs. CRTs, like any TV tube, generate lots of static electricity and will attract dust. When the CRT is on your desk, everything around it becomes charged with static, including YOU. So dust is attracted to your body, including your face. I've discussed this problem with hundreds of CRT users, after they complained of eye strain. I told them this story, and suggested it's dust in their eyes. The solution is to make sure your CRT is kept clean, is well grounded (no cheater plugs and overloaded power strips) and to ground yourself occasionally (touch something metal that's grounded, like your CPU case) to drain the charge off your body. Most of my clients described less eye irritation after following my advice. So there's your possible link. Dust and environmental irritants are attracted to CRT users' faces, due to stray static electricity charges generated by the CRT. And we all know what environmental irritants do for our rosacea. Allow me to suggest a possible causal link. These studies were all done before LCDs became common, so the test subjects were all using CRTs.
CRTs, like any TV tube, generate lots of static electricity and will attract dust. When the CRT is on your desk, everything around it becomes charged with static, including YOU. So dust is attracted to your body, including your face. I’ve discussed this problem with hundreds of CRT users, after they complained of eye strain. I told them this story, and suggested it’s dust in their eyes. The solution is to make sure your CRT is kept clean, is well grounded (no cheater plugs and overloaded power strips) and to ground yourself occasionally (touch something metal that’s grounded, like your CPU case) to drain the charge off your body. Most of my clients described less eye irritation after following my advice.
So there’s your possible link. Dust and environmental irritants are attracted to CRT users’ faces, due to stray static electricity charges generated by the CRT. And we all know what environmental irritants do for our rosacea.

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