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| If you have visual stress (also known as Meares-Irlen syndrome) then you
may experience some or all of the following: |
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Losing you place or skipping words or lines |
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Poor concentration |
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Tiring when reading |
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Eye strain or headaches |
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Visual discomfort when reading |
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Print blurring, words or letter moving |
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Fading of print |
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Patterns or colours appearing in text |
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Glare |
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Rubbing your eyes |
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Nausea |
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Increased blinking |
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Difficulties learning to read or write |
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Around 1 person in 5 suffers from some degree of visual stress.
Symptoms can often be reduced by using coloured filters in the form of overlays or tined spectacle lenses. An individual's
best colour is specific to them and has to be selected with care and precision. |
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