LEAVING a light on in the nursery does not make children grow up to be
short-sighted, according to two new studies. The studies contradict a highly
publicised finding by researchers last year linking night lights to
short-sightedness.
Many parents decided to switch their nursery lights off at night after
researchers at the Scheie Eye Institute in Philadelphia said that short-sighted
children were more likely to have slept with the lights on as infants
(Â鶹´«Ã½, 15 May 1999, p 6).
But Karla Zadnik of Ohio State University in Columbus has now carried out a
survey of the parents of…
