Can Led Light Damage Your Eyes?
December 07,2021
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There is a growing trend to add exaggerate phrases in marketing advertisements. But does LED light protect our eyes from hurt? Can LED light bad for our eyes? It is still a concern lingering in people’s mind since scientific studies show that the blue light emitted by LED light is bad for our eyes. But how much it can damage our eyes? Let’s dive in!
Before going to the main topic, we should have a deeper understanding on blue light.
What’s blue light?
It refers to part of the visible light spectrum what the human eye can see. Blue light has very short, high-energy waves. In fact, they're only slightly longer and less powerful than ultraviolet (UV) waves.
The harmful effects of blue light
The harm to human eyes is mainly manifested in the eye pathological and human rhythm caused by myopia, cataract and macular disease. Children are particularly suffering myopia since their lenses are so clear that they haven’t the ability to block blue light.
Blue light usually put a great strain on people’s eyes for a long time. Long-term visual fatigue may cause people to deepen myopia, diplopia, easy serial reading and other symptoms which finally affect people's learning and work efficiency.
In addition, it also suppresses our production of melatonin, which is a kind of substance helping people falling asleep faster. And this is the reason why it is more difficult to fall asleep using your phone on the bed.
So we can make a conclude. That is blue light not only hurting our eyes but also lower the sleeping quality and lengthen your wakening time before falling asleep.
However, is there any light that hurts the eye more than blue light? Yes, violet light.
Is there any light that hurts the eye more than violet light? Yes, ultraviolet light. Sunshine are the much harmful light than blue light. But there is no cases that someone’s eyes are damaged by sunshine. Perhaps we should dig more information out.
Ranking of relatively light
It's the sun that hurts your eyes the most!
According to the figures above, sunshine hurts our eyes most since it contains the largest area of blue light as well as violet and ultraviolet. Ultraviolet light is the good killer of vision.
LED shelf light with 6000k color temperature ranks second.
Although it does not contain ultraviolet light, it is relatively harmful because it contains large area of blue light.
The third is incandescent light.
Incandescent lamps, like sunlight, have the full spectrum. It also contains violet and ultraviolet light, but it is much smaller than sunlight so it ranks third.
The fourth is LED shelf light with 3000k color temperature.
LED shelf light with 3000k color temperature is the one that has the least impact on vision because its blue light content is low, and there is no violet, ultraviolet light.
In conclusion
Therefore, 3000K warm white LED is the best LED light to protect your eyes! Some people prefer cold light, so many people prefer 6000K cold white light when buying bulbs. We strongly suggest that to choose 3000K warm light for your family spaces which also create a more comfortable environment while you had better choose LED light with 4000-5000K color temperature in the office and don’t using bulbs above 6000K. We are a professional China oem LED shelf light supplier, so if you have any needs please feel free to contact us.
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