Myopia treatment focuses on prevention

  In such a hot summer, many patients who come from far away often have to catch a bus late at night and arrive at the hospital at 5:00 a.m. to wait in line, but they still cannot get a number. Because of the popularity of appointment registration, the number is often full.  Many children’s eyesight dropped from 1.0 to 0.1 in a year. Therefore, for these “little glasses”, my most important emotion is: 1. Many children feel unclear at the beginning of the school year to see the blackboard, but because of the geographical location, the study of the relationship of tension, often to the holidays to come to the clinic, which will delay the good treatment time. Because the development of adolescent pseudomyopia to true myopia is often only 2-4 months, if true myopia once formed, the current situation can not be treated; so, the most important myopia treatment is prevention, the key is the follow-up and treatment of children with pseudomyopia; 2, rejection of glasses. Parents often think that they can’t take down their glasses after they put them on, and they are likely to cause eye deformation. I do not know, eye deformation is not caused by the glasses, but due to the increase in myopia, from a scientific point of view, reasonable glasses will only prevent myopia increase.  3, blindly believe: massage training. Many unqualified institutions on the market are currently engaged in this pseudo-scientific “myopia training treatment”, playing “cure myopia”, “naked eye visual acuity rapid improvement”. After a period of training, vision seems to rise, and parents are easily fooled by this illusion.  The potential is that many children can see 0.8 or even 0.9, but behind the scenes is a rapid increase in myopia, often by one or two hundred degrees a year, while physiological myopia deepens by 75 degrees a year. Moreover, once you stop training, especially if you put on glasses again without permission, then the effect of training quickly disappears. Therefore, it is recommended that children with true myopia should never train, because the child’s degree is still growing, and the training itself is a kind of middle and close distance, so it is likely to increase vision while deepening the degree, sometimes the loss is not worth the gain. …… 4, timely review is most important. The most common thing I see during the holidays is some children with a mirror a year before they come over for a review, even with a mirror also squint to see about 0.6, this child if at the age of 12 years old, often myopia will increase a lot compared to last year. Because 8-12 years old is a dangerous period for myopia growth, it is recommended that children of this age must be reviewed once every 3 months, which is very important for myopia control.  5. Do not reject medication. Today’s primary and secondary school students spend a very long day studying at close range, during which there is no good rest time. The best rest for the eyes is to look away, or to rest with eyes closed, rather than to play with close toys or read extracurricular books. Therefore, it is very important to insist on eye drops that relax the eye muscles to relieve fatigue and prevent myopia from deepening. Some parents worry about the side effects of the drops, but in fact, the maintenance time of the eye drops is very short, remaining in the conjunctival sac for only a few minutes, and the duration of action is usually only 5 hours at most, so for a 24-hour day and night, it is only a small period of time for the drug to take effect.  In short, the treatment of myopia actually lies in prevention, maintaining reasonable habits of life and study, once formed, the main treatment is to control growth and prevent complications, there is no real solution to cure myopia.