When it comes to myopia, it’s not as simple as reducing your face value. What you need to worry more about should be the complications of myopia. So, how many complications of myopia do you know? Myopia five complications can not be ignored! Complication 1: Retinal detachment This is a more common complication of high myopia. As the eye axis becomes longer, the back half of the eye becomes thinner, the retina and choroid atrophy and degeneration, and fissures appear, triggering hemorrhage and retinal detachment of varying extent, resulting in vision loss. In retinal detachment, 70% are myopic eyes. Complication 2: Macular hemorrhage and macular degeneration The elongated eye axis of myopic eyes leads to poor blood supply and retinal ischemia. To ensure blood supply, neovascularization will be produced, and the walls of these neovascularization are very thin and very easy to rupture and bleed, thus forming macular hemorrhage. After the hemorrhage is absorbed, the new blood vessels may rupture and bleed again, which will form a scar and cause macular degeneration, and macular degeneration will permanently damage vision. Complication three: vitreous liquefaction degeneration Vitreous humor is colorless and transparent jelly-like. When the myopic eye enlarges, the vitreous does not increase, so it cannot fill all the space in the eye and becomes liquefied, with increased mobility and cloudiness, causing dark shadows in front of the eye and inducing retinal detachment. Complication 4: glaucoma Myopic eyes have abnormal filter curtain structure at the atrial angle, so the atrial water flow resistance in the eye is higher, easily causing an increase in intraocular pressure. According to statistics, 30% of highly myopic eyes have glaucoma, and this glaucoma will cause gradual loss of vision. Complication 5: strabismus and amblyopia Myopia can cause exotropia or exotropia, and if the difference in myopia between the two eyes is greater than 300 degrees, it can easily cause exotropia and amblyopia in eyes with deeper degrees. This is where the complications of myopia are introduced. After myopia appears, the focus is on preventing and controlling the deepening of myopia. It is recommended that a comprehensive eye examination be done every six months to a year to understand whether the eye indicators are normal and to prevent myopia from becoming high myopia. Myopic patients over the age of 18 can also correct myopia through myopia surgery, and can choose a procedure that suits their specific needs.