Dangers of online game addiction for children:

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Children are a proud family asset, families will feel happy when they have children who grow and develop healthily, but families feel very sad if their proud child falls ill and not a few children fall ill when addicted to online games.

Playing games is generally done to fill spare time. By playing games, finally free time becomes more fun. Especially when playing online games with friends.

Online games now come with various choices, ranging from action games, arcades, puzzles, and so on. Besides being accompanied by interesting animations, online games also allow each user to compete with each other and practice group work.

With a variety of interesting features offered, online games can trigger addiction or addiction. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO), has determined that online game addiction is one of the categories of mental disorders.

This, of course, cannot be tolerated, moreover the effect is also very bad for children who are still in school age. When children play online games too often, of course it can trigger addiction or addiction to online games. In fact, addiction to online games is bad for physical and mental health. addiction in children.

The following are the dangers that arise from online game addiction in children:

1. Vitamin D deficiency

When addicted to playing online games, children will tend to spend time in the room. So, this can trigger a vitamin D deficiency due to infrequent exposure to sunlight. Even though sunlight is one of the natural vitamin D stimulants for the body.

2. Muscle Pain

Reported in the British Medical Journal report, when playing games with a duration of hours nonstop, it can cause muscle pain. This is because the body is forced to stay in one position for long periods of time without stretching. Even though at that time the brain was in a tense position because the adrenaline was pumped while playing online games.

3. Vision problems

When playing online games for a long time, it can cause damage to the eye organs in the form of decreased vision. This is because when playing online games, the eyes will be exposed to radiation from the screen for a long time. In fact, this is quite dangerous for the retina. Although not immediately felt, but the impact of radiation on the retina will have a long-term impact.

4. Lack of sleep and trigger Insomnia

By playing online games can usually make children forget the time. Even willing to not take a break just to play online games nonstop. This can trigger various problems due to reduced sleep time. In addition, continuously pumping adrenaline at night can also trigger insomnia.

5. Changes in body shape

With addiction to online games, it can cause sufferers to forget time to eat and exercise. So that it can make a change in body shape. There are people who tend to become emaciated due to the frequency of playing games. There are also people who tend to be obese because they play games while eating unhealthy foods.

6. Triggers Quervain's syndrome

Playing online games non-stop can actually trigger Quervain's syndrome. Reporting from the WebMD page, Quervain syndrome is a condition where there is a disorder caused by inflammation of the tendon. This condition can be triggered by repetitive hand movements such as when playing online games.

Patients with Quervain's syndrome will usually experience pain and the condition will continue to worsen until they can't rotate their wrists if not treated immediately. In the worst case, the pain can radiate to the whole arm.

It turns out that there are so many dangers that our children get when our children play online games, hopefully we parents can always take care of our children, so that things we don't want happen to our children.

Thank you readers who have faithfully read my articles, may you be given physical and spiritual health.

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