Baby Safety, Nightlight Use And Myopia

Nightlights are not simply a vital baby safety product, they are in addition very handy for Mum and Dad too - especially at feeding time when you do not wish to entirely arouse your baby up, a nightlight will help out with this. Nightlights give off a slight gentle glow for your baby or child while sleeping.

Many types of nightlights are available including amusing and ornamental lights in the form of animals or humorous characters, and fully automatic nightlights that understand to turn on in the dark and off and when the sun is up.

Nightlights what's more offer parents a way of checking on your sleeping baby without turning on the room light and possibly waking their baby.

There are various potential negatives to nightlights though. A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania Medical School found that babies under the age of two years old, whose parents used nightlights, had a five-fold increase in myopia compared to other babies or toddlers who slept in a room that was dark.

In fairness to parents of young babies who use nightlights the study does not establish night time nightlights that are used during early childhood is a direct cause of myopia, parents may wish to consider the study on baby safety when deciding whether to use a nightlight or not - please remember though that this was just one study and although it did have interesting findings they were not conclusive as the sample was probably not as large as it could have been.