What is known about myopia treatment for adolescents?

  I. Early treatment Parents always think their children are pseudomyopia and do not need to correct it, delaying the best time for treatment. In fact, the proportion of pseudomyopia is very small, that is, 30%. Once a child’s vision is found to be a problem, it should be corrected and treated as early as possible and should not be delayed.  Second, early wearing glasses does not equal myopia deepening Some parents hold the stereotypical concept of “early wearing glasses the more myopia” and so on, baselessly refuse to correct for their children with glasses. This perception is even more difficult to change than “pseudomyopia”. From a scientific point of view, the prescription of lenses should be based on the results of the optometry, combined with the visual acuity requirements, eye position, eye muscle movement, and the presence of amblyopia. The first thing to do is to receive an optometrist’s examination before prescription. Only when the refractive state of the eye is clear can the right lenses be given.  Third, dilated optometry does not endanger the eyes. Optometry for adolescents requires dilated pupils and eye drops to paralyze the ciliary muscles and dilate the pupils, so that optometry can be performed with the elimination of regulation. The dilated pupil not only prevents the ciliary muscle from being over-regulated, but also avoids pseudomyopia caused by regulatory spasm. This is especially true for young children or elementary school students who need to have their pupils dilated in order to get an objective indicator for a more accurate prescription. In fact, dilated pupils do not cause any harm to the eyes, and the pupils can return to normal on their own a few days after dilatation.  The actual fact is that you can’t use unscientific treatments for myopia. Parents are afraid that their children will suffer from myopia. Therefore, once a child has myopia, many parents will blindly use various methods to help treat their children. In fact, many of the methods and instruments used to treat myopia can be counterproductive if not applied properly. For example, the prevalent student progressive lenses are still in the research stage in terms of the application effect in preventing the development of myopia, more importantly, the fitting of such glasses requires a professional refractive examination, including the determination of the obliquity, the measurement of the pupillary distance of one eye, etc. If you do not do a comprehensive examination of the fitting of the progressive lenses will increase the burden on the child’s eyes and further aggravate myopia.  Some parents always prefer to treat their children’s myopia during the winter and summer holidays in order not to affect their studies. Many unscrupulous businesses also take advantage of this psychology of parents, claiming that a certain method or a certain instrument can cure myopia within a month or even ten days, leading many parents to be duped. In fact, the prevention and control of myopia is a long-term process, any short term surprise treatment is unlikely to cure myopia. In addition, prevention and control of myopia in children must be done from the age of 5 or 6 years old, until the age of 18 to 20 years old to stop, because at this time people’s eye axis has stopped developing, myopia will not develop again.  Six, after wearing glasses must be regularly reviewed Many parents in myopic children with glasses, no longer take it to the hospital to do the examination. This approach is wrong. Clinical practice has confirmed that frequent review of myopic children wearing glasses has the following benefits: 1. it can clarify whether the child’s original pseudomyopia has been cured; 2. it can clarify whether the child’s mixed myopia in pseudomyopia has been cured; 3. it can clarify whether the child’s original true myopia has developed.