What is a Refractive Development Profile? A child’s refractive development profile is formed by regularly recording the child’s height, eye axis, corneal curvature, intraocular pressure, refractive status, etc., so that the child’s visual health and development can be closely tracked. Normal children are farsighted and their naked eye visual acuity is not equal to their refractive status, which changes as the eye develops. In order to understand in detail the refractive changes of the child and to detect abnormal refractive development in time, it is very necessary to take the child for refractive examination regularly and establish a perfect file There are three major benefits of establishing a refractive development file: 1. Early detection of refractive abnormalities of the eyes, such as high farsightedness, nearsightedness, astigmatism, and amblyopia. 2. 2.Early detection of infants and children for eye diseases. To check the refractive status of your child’s eyes, you have to be in the ophthalmology department of a regular hospital. In addition to giving the child a light test, the ophthalmologist will definitely check the child’s eye position (to determine the presence of strabismus), lens (to determine the presence of congenital cataract) and fundus (congenital glaucoma or other fundus lesions) at the same time, which is equivalent to giving the infant’s eyes a comprehensive physical examination. 3. Among children with normal vision, screening out myopic “embryos” is the main purpose of establishing a refractive development profile. For example, if an 8-year-old child has +1.50 degrees to +1.25 degrees of hyperopia and a visual acuity of 1.0, and another child with the same visual acuity of 1.0 is found to have a refractive error of +0.75 degrees of hyperopia or hyperopia (no refractive error) after dilated pupil examination, there is a high probability that this child will become myopic in the future. If this condition is detected early and measures are taken, myopia can be prevented. Three steps to build your child’s refractive development profile: 1. Determine the age: In general, an initial profile should be established for children aged 2 years, and then checked every six months until the age of 12 years. In the past, children with ophthalmologic problems were often seen too late, often when parents or kindergarten teachers noticed obvious abnormalities in their eyes, such as squinting, tilting their heads to see things, or having cross-eyed or squinted eyes. If a refractive development profile can be established from an early age, children should be examined regularly regardless of whether their eyes are normal or not. 2, choose a good place: children’s eye adjustment is very strong, must be dilated optometry in order to obtain the correct refractive results. Since dilated optometry is a medical practice, parents should take their children to the ophthalmology department of a regular hospital for relevant examinations. Dilated optometry will not cause any harm to children’s eyes, so parents do not need to worry. 3. Organize and keep good refractive information. Parents should keep the data of every eye examination of their children and keep in touch with the ophthalmologist. Through these data, the doctor can clearly see the child’s refractive development, and once problems are found, preventive and curative measures can be taken in time. At present, many parents keep this file of their children together with the bank passbook at home to ensure that they do not lose it, which is worth learning from.