Parents’ misconceptions and confusion in the process of myopia prevention and treatment

  With school starting in a month, hospitals are seeing another rush of students coming in for myopia treatment. There are still many misconceptions and confusions among parents in the prevention and treatment of myopia.  Myth 1: The increase of myopia is caused by wearing glasses In addition to congenital factors, the increase of myopia is closely related to the incorrect use of eyes, such as watching TV, playing computer games, reading books, etc., for too long, not paying attention to sitting posture when reading and writing, resulting in excessive spasm of the adjustment muscles in the eyes, and the gradual deepening of myopia. Therefore, after wearing glasses, we should also pay attention to eye hygiene, reduce the time and frequency of close eye use, and correct sitting posture.  For children with rapid myopia progression, it is recommended to continue to follow the six principles of myopia prevention and treatment after wearing glasses: to relax ciliary muscle eye medication before bedtime, to use keratoplasty lenses (first choice), to use eye relief lenses, to wear defocused lenses, to wear progressive multifocal myopia glasses, to supplement multivitamins and trace elements containing lutein, and to wear high oxygen permeable keratoplasty lenses, which greatly reduces the speed of myopia progression. This greatly reduces the rate of progression of myopia.  Myth #2: The later you wear myopia glasses, the better. School-age children must be screened for vision as early as possible. If you find that your child is nearsighted, you can’t avoid the reality or comfort yourself with pseudo-myopia; avoidance will only delay the condition and invariably accelerate the development of myopia. Eyeglasses should be worn in the correct way. After relaxation treatment, medical optometry based on the child’s naked eye vision 0.5 or less, eye degree more than 175 degrees, it is recommended to wear all day, when picking when wearing will make the eyes often in an unstable state of regulatory fatigue, easy to deepen myopia. Myopic children with bare eye vision above 0.5 and below 150 degrees can choose to wear glasses when looking at the distance and the blackboard, and take off glasses when looking at the near writing.