Myopia correction for children misconceptions

  Myth 1: Myopic glasses can not wear children are in a critical period of visual development, to ensure complete and sound vision, the most important thing is that both eyes can see a clear retinal image at the same time. If myopia is not corrected in time, the long-term retinal blurred image will, on the one hand, induce further lengthening of the eye axis, increasing myopia and even triggering amblyopia and strabismus; on the other hand, it will also affect the child’s psychological development, manifesting itself as a reduced interest in new things outside, narrowing the scope of life, and in severe cases, affecting intellectual development.  Myth #2: It’s good to have low prescription glasses The complete correction of myopia is to correct myopia to orthopia, to restore the inherent normal relationship between adjustment and collection. Long-term wearing low correction glasses, the eyes to see near objects without regulation or less regulation, in order to maintain binocular monovision, the two eyes must collect the visual axis, so that the relationship between regulation and collection will be disturbed. On the other hand, the collection is close to the regulation, that is, to the low collection, resulting in extraocular muscle force imbalance, when the muscle force imbalance can not be maintained, the binocular vision function will be destroyed, only rely on one eye to see things, the other eye to the outside, and become a temporary alternating exotropia. For the degree of prescription, optometrists will give reasonable according to the child’s visual function, parents should not blindly intervene.  Myth 3: “myopia treatment” instead of glasses correction Various “treatment of myopia” instruments, therapies (massage, acupuncture, etc.) continue to appear on the market. From a scientific point of view, these treatments are often helpful in relieving eye strain and have a role in restoring vision for pseudomyopia, but not for true myopia. To date, the most effective means of correcting myopia remains optical correction – wearing appropriate glasses.