Dr. Nadia Sledge

The American Pediatric Association recommending two hours a day as the limit on digital device use and being outside as well an hour a day.

There is a recommendation to not even give kids devices until they're, my mind says, two or three years old.

And we do tend to kind of, it's great, we can watch videos on our phone and we give them to our kids.

But ultimately, the more outdoor, long-distance play they can do, the better for the health of their eyes and the, as I would call, less addictive nature that, you know, we hopefully can push off that addiction to our devices.

Because I...

try to preach it to my kids, but I'm on my devices just as much as well.

And then we'll also start having conversations of what is now termed myopia management, which is basically different methodologies of trying to help decrease how bad the prescription gets.

the non-contact tonometry is what it's called.

I say it's kind of like a video game on our side of trying to get everything aligned, but it's kind of like a guessing game on your side of when it's coming.

But it is very important to have that done.

That is the screening test for glaucoma.

Glaucoma is when pressures get to a level that the eye doesn't like it.

And as I tell patients, it's a silent disease.

We don't see any problems on your side.

You don't come in complaining about

having glaucoma problems.

It really takes your peripheral vision out first.

So that's why we want to see you every year.

That's why we want to do the pressure test.

That's why we want to take a look inside your eyes and look at the nerve and make sure it's not getting damaged.