Myopia in children usually develops and stabilizes around the age of 18, but with pathologic myopia, it is possible to continue to experience increases in myopia throughout life.
Myopia is a common ophthalmologic condition and is one of the most common types of refractive error, usually occurring in childhood or adolescence.
The degree of myopia may gradually increase with the lengthening of the eye axis during the growth and development period. Generally, the development of the eyeball stabilizes around the age of 18, and the length of the eye axis no longer changes, at which time the degree of myopia generally stabilizes.
When the sclera wall is thin, it is easy to cause pathologic myopia, and myopia may continue to increase throughout life.
Myopia patients should go to the ophthalmology department of the hospital in time, and the doctor will determine the exact degree of myopia through the optometry examination, and then formulate a corrective plan, such as wearing frame glasses, using keratoplasty lenses and other treatments.