Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 1, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A14 Winnipeg free june night Light wont Hurt kids sight studies spas a Baths for sparkling Clear water i chlorine Coupon specials free water testing 6kg granular with this Coupon must present Coupon Mutt one Coupon per cannot be combined with any other offer Kravco gift certificate please Complete entry form for a Chance to win awarded monthly May thru Sargent at Berry Lagimodiere at Grassie 7866957 6543847 its of for parents to leave on the night according to two new studies that say the Light wont make children near two groups of researchers report in this weeks journal nature that they were unable to duplicate the results of an earlier study Indi Cating children who sleep with a nightlight until age two Are three times More Likely to develop or the original report suggested that parents turn out the said Jane Gwiazda of the new England College of optometry in and How with two studies to the its Safe to say parents can leave the lights the two followup studies were done separately at the new England College of optometry and Ohio state the original study was done by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and the Chil Drens Hospital of Philadelphia and was published in nature last it raised the possibility that too much Light during the first two years of life prompts the rapidly develop ing eyes to grow excessively and throws them out of the followup studies found no difference Between the rate of myopia for children who slept in the dark and those who slept with a night in some the real explanation May be at least indirectly the researchers myopic parents Are More Likely to have myopic and myopic parents May like to leave night lights on so they can see better at the Boston group studied 213 people ranging in age from two to with a mean age of it found that 20 per cent of the children who slept with night lights developed myopia exactly the same percentage As the youngsters who slept in the the Ohio state which involved children with a median age of found the percentage of children who became near sighted after sleeping with a night Light As babies was about 17 per that was the same As the 20 per cent of the children who slept in the in the percentage of children who slept in a fully lit room and later became near sighted was essentially the same at 22 per the strongest link the Ohio state study found was Between the number of nearsighted parents and their use of night Surprise those of us who cant see like to leave the lights said Ohio state optometrist Karla Richard an ophthalmologist and coauthor of the Pennsylvania said in a response published in nature that widespread publicity May have led parents in the followup studies to under report nightlight use out of guilt for possibly contributing to press z on the web new England College of optometry site Ohio state University site used weve just taken new markdowns on 100 million dollars a women mens Spring fashions 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