Some common questions about children’s first prescription

1.When should I take my child to the hospital for an optometry? If your child’s vision is lower than the average for children of the same age, you should take them for a dilated eye exam. Some children will tell their parents directly when their vision is declining, but many may not, so parents should be more observant. If you find that your child often squints to see, sits closer and closer to the TV, likes to squint or tilt his head to watch TV, etc., you should promptly take him to the hospital for an optometry. 2.Is our child truly myopic or pseudomyopia? A: The eyes without obvious organic lesions, or organic changes and refractive abnormalities, but their lesions are not compatible with the loss of vision and constantly corrected or corrected visual acuity below 0.9 are amblyopia. Many scholars believe that there is no need to distinguish between true and false myopia, but the concept of pseudomyopia is particularly popular in China, so parents usually ask first if it is pseudomyopia when they come to the hospital. Pseudomyopia is the initial stage of myopia in children, when the eyes are in a state of regulatory tension or spasm due to prolonged close eye use. A dilated eye exam can distinguish this. If there is still myopia after the pupil dilatation examination, then it is true myopia. 3.Should we get glasses? Parents often ask, “Should we wear glasses if our child is 50 degrees nearsighted? Here we need to correct a concept, 50 degrees of farsightedness – no degrees – 50 degrees of myopia, this range of eyes are orthopia, that is to say, 50 degrees of myopia is not myopia at all, of course, do not need to wear glasses. I generally recommend that after dilated pupils more than 100 degrees should wear glasses, only a few dozen degrees, does not affect learning and life, you can first observe a period of time to review and then see. 4.Will I never be able to take off my glasses after wearing them? Many parents are reluctant to wear glasses because they feel that if they wear glasses, they will have to keep wearing them. Indeed, because you have myopia, refractive state is unlikely to reverse, and generally speaking, the degree will certainly continue to deepen, so glasses need to be worn all the time. But the point here is that even if you don’t wear glasses, your myopia is there and it will get deeper and deeper. The need to wear glasses but deliberately do not let wear, like an ostrich encounter problems buried head in the sand, in fact, there is no meaning. 5.What will happen if we don’t want to get glasses? First of all, you children will not be able to see clearly, and the larger the prescription, the less clear it is to see far away, which may affect learning and daily life. Secondly, the eyes are always in the state of not seeing clearly, easily lead to visual fatigue, may appear eye swelling pain, serious may also be headache, etc.. Again, being in this state for a long time may make the adjustment and collection imbalance, and the eyes appear strabismus. Finally, the eyes are in a state of long term vision loss may make the degree develop more rapidly. 6.Do I need to wear my child’s glasses all the time? It is generally recommended to wear glasses all the time. However, there are doctors who believe, based on clinical experience, that lower prescriptions (under 200 degrees of myopia) can be worn when looking far away and not near; in cases above 200 degrees, it is recommended to wear glasses all the time when using the eyes. 7, glasses is good enough with the degree or less with the degree good? At present, there are more studies that think it is better to have enough correction, that is, enough prescription. 8.Will my eyes become deformed if I wear glasses all the time? Many people feel that after wearing glasses for a long time, their eyes will become more and more convex. In fact, the eyes become convex due to the growth of the prescription, the eye axis becomes longer. The deeper the degree of myopia is 300 degrees, the more the eyes grow by 1mm, so the deeper the degree, generally speaking the longer the eyes, the more prominent the eyes look, this is not caused by wearing glasses.