A 16-year-old patient with 1,500 degrees of myopia is not necessarily blind.
Myopia of 1,500 diopters is classified as hypermetropia, which is characterized by a significant loss of vision in the naked eye, and can be corrected by wearing frames or using contact lenses at age 16, but is usually not treatable by surgery.
Simple hypermetropia does not cause blindness, but complications associated with hypermetropia, such as macular degeneration, retinal detachment, etc., may cause blindness.
Therefore, patients are advised to go to the ophthalmology department of the hospital for regular checkups. If complications related to high myopia are found, reasonable treatments should be carried out under the guidance of the doctor, such as surgical treatment to reset the detached retina, and intravitreal injection of drugs such as Ranibizumab to treat macular degeneration.