Protecting your eyesight starts with babies and young children

Protecting eyesight should be cultivated from childhood, and infants and young children within two weeks of age should not watch TV as much as possible. When you find your child’s eyes have abnormal symptoms (squinting, head tilting, photophobia, closing one eye in the sunlight, like to press the eyeball, etc.), you should go to the hospital in time. Infants and young children should have a special towel and washbasin, running water to wash the face is better, in order to prevent eye infections. Usually pay attention to prevent children from touching sharp and injurious toys, beware of eye trauma. Infants should go outdoors more often (wear hats with brims and pay attention to the protection of ultraviolet rays). In addition, the incidence of eye disease in preterm babies generally has a tendency to increase year-on-year, and some complications can easily lead to increased incidence of eye disease, and parents should also be vigilant. Preterm babies with eye diseases. Reminder: don’t let your child watch TV and use the computer for a long time China’s students with low eye age, eye time is relatively long, eye intensity is relatively large (a large number of browsing the electronic screen), and the after-school time are arranged very full, many children are very young to enter the interest classes to learn, reading and learning over a long period of time, there is not enough time for outdoor activities. Reading, writing, watching TV and playing with cell phones and computers in poorly lit conditions can easily lead to vision loss. Early and excessive eye use is the main cause of myopia in children. Ophthalmologists remind parents that nowadays electronic products have become the biggest threat to harm children’s eyes, do not throw cell phones and tablet computers to your children in order to save time and effort, which can easily lead to addiction and vision loss. Nowadays, young children are already playing with cell phones or tablet computers, the use of cell phones or tablet computers on a person’s intelligence and brain power development, although helpful, but it will be harmful to the eyes. Electronic products have a certain radiation hazard, and the screen size, brightness changes, will make people’s pupils change, more regulation within the eye will cause fatigue, prolonged fatigue will cause myopia. Parents should solve the problem from the source, to avoid prolonged exposure of children to electronic products. Parents should strictly control the time of children watching TV and using computers. Don’t let your child watch TV for a long time, but stipulate the time for your child to watch TV, as well as standardize the light, distance and posture of your child’s TV watching. In addition, remind your child to pay attention to eye hygiene, read and write with head elevated, sit properly, more outdoor activities, adequate sleep, balanced diet. Regular regular hospital eye examination.