Myth 1: Children are too young to wear nearsighted glasses There are often children who squint to see people and things. Many parents will say, “Don’t let your child wear glasses when they’re that young, they can’t take them off if they wear them.” This perception is extremely wrong and very harmful! Children are in a critical period of visual development, and the most important thing to ensure complete and sound vision is that both eyes can see a clear retinal (fundus) image at the same time. If myopia is not corrected in time, the long-term retinal blurred image, on the one hand, will induce further lengthening of the eye axis, so that myopia increases, and even triggers amblyopia, strabismus; on the other hand, it will also affect the child’s psychological development, as manifested by reduced interest in new things outside, narrowing the scope of life, and in severe cases affect intellectual development. Myth 2: The more myopic glasses are changed the higher the degree of myopia increases in adolescence, in addition to genetic factors, the most important is the excessive eye burden and unscientific eye habits. During the period of rapid growth of height, the myopia is often also growing faster. Therefore, on the basis of scientific and reasonable correction, whether myopia increases or not has nothing to do with whether glasses are replaced or not. Qiao Tong of the Ophthalmology Department of Shanghai Children’s Hospital recommends that adolescents should have an optometric examination every 6 to 12 months to regularly monitor changes in visual acuity. Those with low corrected visual acuity should be re-examined and have their lenses replaced with corrective lenses of reasonable diopter. Myth 3: Myopia glasses can not be too clear Myopia is fully corrected to myopia, to restore the inherent normal relationship between adjustment and collection. Long-term wearing low corrective 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, the development of low collection, resulting in extraocular muscle force imbalance, when the muscle force imbalance can not be maintained, the visual function of both eyes will be destroyed, only rely on one eye to see things, the other eye to the outside, and become a temporary intermittent alternating exotropia. For the degree of prescription, optometrists will give reasonable according to the child’s visual function, parents should not blindly intervene. Myth 4: Blindly believe in various “treatments” for not wearing glasses or for less length The “treatment for myopia” instruments and therapies (massage, acupuncture, etc.) that keep appearing in the society have made many parents fall for and be deceived. From a scientific point of view, these treatments may help to relieve eye strain and restore vision for pseudomyopia, but not for true myopia (nearsightedness). To date, the most effective means of correcting myopia remains optical correction – wearing appropriate glasses.