Because they can tell stories and sing songs, children's early education machines and children's educational toys are loved by parents and children. But parents have been shocked by the news that a young girl injured her cornea by playing with a flash machine. Yesterday, the reporter found that the flash toys sold on the market are indeed many, the network is more hot, this is the toy type of preschool children love. Some parents even found that nearly 40 percent of the toys at home were shiny. Eye experts say that staring at the flash of toys for a long time is really easy to damage the eyes.

 

 

 

 

Forty percent of parents took inventory of shiny toys

 

 

 

Ms. Wang's daughter is one and a half years old this year, and she usually has many toys. Yesterday, she made a rough inventory of the toys in the home, and found that there are more than 20 toys in the home, 15 are light, can flash nearly 8. She told reporters that children usually like to play is sound light toys.

 

 

 

Yesterday morning, in ji Luo road near a children's toy market, the reporter conducted a visit investigation, found that the toys will shine really many, accounting for about 40 percent of the total number of toys. Online sales of early education machines are even hotter. Reporter searches discovery, the early education machine accumulative total of animal appearance of 39 yuan sells more than 10,000. Among them, "colorful earlights" is one of the highlights of the early education machine publicity, another high sales of early education machine products not only ear light, the middle number key will also light, but the store owner said, so the products are written on the "USE of LED lights, not hurt the eyesight."

 

 

 

A review of the revised national toy safety standard, which will come into force on January 1 next year, found that the standard does not mention lighting requirements for toys. In a separate safety standard for electronic toys, only electrical strength, resistance to moisture, heat and fire are covered, and lighting is not required.

 

 

 

Preschool is the eye development period flash toys easy to damage the eye

 

 

 

Female newspaper reporters found that in recent years, there have been a number of luminous products caused by children's vision damage in the media exposure. In 2014, Ms. Wang noticed that her 4-year-old son often squinted his eyes. When she went to the hospital, she found that his son was nearsighted. According to the analysis of medical staff, cause children false myopia is the prime culprit is flash toys.

 

 

 

Chen Lizhong, deputy director of Shandong Liangkang Eye Hospital, told reporters that at present, the hospital has not received treatment because of playing flash toys and eye damage of children, but she admitted that flash toys do cause damage to children's eyes. "The strong light of toys with light at night does cause eye damage to children, especially those with flash toys, which are always flashing. Staring at them for a long time can cause eye fatigue, blurred eyes, and even dry and red eyes." Preschoolers are developing their eyes, she said, and some adverse effects can affect their later development. In addition, she said, parents must pay attention to the guidance of children's eye habit, do not give preschool children too much eye learning activities, strengthen outdoor activities.