Squinting at a spreadsheet for long periods isn’t doing your eyes any favours, especially when you head home after work to binge-watch your latest Netflix obsession… on yet another screen.

So, make sure you take regular breaks and gaze at something in the distance to relax your eyes.

Apply the ‘20-20-20 rule’. Never heard of it? In a nutshell, this is the theory that, for every 20 minutes of screen use, you should focus on something 20ft away and stare at it for at least 20 seconds.

By fixing your eyes on something in the distance, you’ll be relaxing the focusing muscle within the eye, giving it a chance to recover from all that screen time.

And if you’re not sure whether you’re suffering from dry eyes, take the Optrex Dry Eye Blink Test. It takes literally seconds and helps determine the state of your peepers.

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