Pediatricians require guidelines for children’s viewing screen – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

Hugo Lagercrantz, former chief physician at the neonatal unit at the Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital and chief editor of the magazine Acta Paediatrica, seeing a frightening development in children’s diligent use of tablets and smart phones.

– The delay language development. In addition, children can become myopic, he says to P1 morning.

Hugo Lagercrantz does parable of smoking in the 60′s:

– Then nobody thought it was dangerous in the long run. It was not discussed. I mean that one should consider where you wind up with screen use, says Hugo Lagercrantz.

He wants to National Media Council should come with some simple recommendations:

– Children under two years of age should not use screens at all. And pre-school

age should be limited to 1-2 hours a day. Swedish people do who authorities say, says Hugo Lagercrantz.

Eva Thor Lund, Director for National Media Council, would not introduce any recommendations for on-screen viewing:

– It is difficult to give any specific advice. There are different factors that come into play, she says to P1.