Augenprobleme

In einem Slashdot-Artikel beschreibt ein Ratsuchender seinen Alltag.

I sleep 5 hours, in average, per day and I spend more that 15 hours in front of my laptop’s monitor (a 17″ TFT Widescreen), either programming or reading. […]The actual symptom is that I lose my concentration more easily now. Also, the lighting of the monitor is killing me, especially when combined with a white background. Since I am willing to continue working in the same pace that I do now, what do you propose?

Seine Frage: sollte er spezielle Brillen verwenden, um Augenprobleme zu vermeiden?