Try blinking at your computer.

• Position: Eye Fatigue - Brief article

Vision health professionals are treating a growing number of people who work all day at computers for eye fatigue. This malady is known as computer vision syndrome, and there is a health care strategy to combat the problem called 20/20/20: every 20 minutes the computer user should take a break for at least 20 seconds and look at objects that are 20 feet away.

The American Optometric Association defines computer vision syndrome as "the complex of eye and vision problems related to near work that are experienced during--or related to--computer use."

However, optometrist Edward Mendelson of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, has added another 20 to the mix. "Give yourself 20 good blinks," he...