Dietary contraindications for children with myopia

  The incidence of myopia in children has been on the rise in recent years, causing a great impact on the majority of children. As we all know, bad eating habits are one of the causes of myopia, so the daily diet of myopic patients should not be ignored.  The following are the specific dietary contraindications for children with myopia: 1. Avoid the lack of protein. Should be appropriate to increase the intake of fish, eggs, milk and lean meat, mainly animal protein.  2, avoid the lack of calcium and phosphorus. Calcium and phosphorus in the sclera play a role in enhancing toughness, milk, beans, hard fruits, shrimp, kelp, snow peas, squash, walnuts and pumpkin seeds in more. Food containing vitamin D can enhance the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, these foods include egg yolk, cream, cod liver oil, etc.  3, avoid lack of chromium. When chromium is insufficient, affect the insulin regulation function, blood sugar rises, the eye lens, atrial fluid osmotic pressure rises, so that the refractive error increases and leads to myopia, so you should eat more food containing chromium. Such as beef, coarse flour, brown rice, grapes, mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, silver fungus, black fungus, etc..  4, avoid the lack of selenium. Selenium is involved in the activities of the eye muscles, pupil. Nutritionists believe that the daily intake of selenium below 50 micrograms, after a period of time vision will be affected, so you should eat more fish, poultry, cabbage, radish, leek, garlic and other foods rich in selenium.  5, avoid the lack of carotene and vitamin A. Lack of vitamin A, night vision is affected, should eat more food containing carotene (can be converted into vitamin A) and vitamin A, such as carrots, corn, pumpkin, green vegetables, egg yolk, animal liver, etc.  6, avoid the lack of vitamin B. Vitamin B2 lack, easy vision fatigue; vitamin B1 has a nutritional effect on the optic nerve, these foods include flour, peanuts, lean meat, milk, vegetables, etc..  The above gives a detailed introduction to the dietary contraindications of children with myopia. I hope this can bring some help to children with myopia. If you find myopia symptoms in your daily life, you should treat them early and pay attention to the above dietary contraindications.