Taiwanese woman develops hole in her retina after years of using smartphone outdoors

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A young woman in Taiwan is being reported as the first case in the world of having her eye’s retina become swollen, shifting it out of its natural position, leaving a tiny hollow cavity in the eye, all as a result of prolonged smart phone use outdoors.

A doctor of Ophthalmology at Fooyin Universitiy in Kaohsiung, Hong Chi-ting (洪啟庭) has reportedly been monitoring a female patient surnamed Huang (黃), aged 27, who is experiencing the affliction.

After first experiencing a distortion and a kind of glare in the vision of her right eye, Huang went to the eye doctor to determine what the problem was in February.