Myth 1: Young children under 3 years old do not need to have their vision checked
In addition to acquired causes of high myopia, many will have congenital eye diseases and abnormalities. If your baby is less than 3 years old but has any of the following conditions, please seek medical attention as soon as possible.
(1) White or yellowish-white reflections in the black pupil area are found;
(2) The child has obvious photophobia and tearing;
(3) The child is unable to look at objects in front of him or her or does not follow the light and turn his or her eyes;
(4) When covering one eye, the child does not respond, while covering the other eye immediately causes irritability and crying; likes to tilt the head to see things, etc.
Even if your little one seems to have all normal vision, bring your toddler to a professional ophthalmologist for a simple general screening in about six months. Because there may be congenital eye diseases or abnormalities (such as retinopathy of prematurity, retinal tumors, congenital cataracts, congenital glaucoma, etc.), it is difficult for parents to observe the telltale signs, but ophthalmologists can detect and deal with these eye diseases in time to avoid permanent damage to vision.
Myth #2: Optometry for children, dilated pupils have side effects
Dilated pupil (ciliary muscle paralysis) optometry is one of the most important optometric methods for checking the refractive state of children’s eyes, but most parents worry about side effects. Experts explain that dilated optometry is the process of putting special ciliary muscle paralysis eye drops into the eyes to completely paralyze the ciliary muscles of the eyes to achieve the most relaxed state, and then performing optometry without any damage to the eyes.
If the pupil is not dilated, children before the age of 6 will have a very strong ability to adjust their eyes, which means that their vision will be “fake” during the examination, and it will be impossible to detect hidden problems, especially for farsightedness, strabismus and amblyopia, which is very difficult to determine.
Myth 3: Astigmatism doesn’t matter, no need to correct
When parents take their children to the optician, they often hear that astigmatism is okay and does not need to be corrected. In fact, this should be treated differently. First of all, there are light, medium and high astigmatism. About 80% of people have mild astigmatism, about 15% have moderate astigmatism, and about 5% have high astigmatism. If the astigmatism is mild and asymptomatic, no correction is needed, but if there are symptoms such as visual fatigue and squinting, it should be corrected accurately. And medium and high astigmatism usually must be corrected.
Myth 4: You can’t get rid of your glasses if you wear them, so don’t wear them if you can
Many parents are reluctant to give their children glasses for myopia, because they are worried that once the child wears them, they can not take them off. So they seek methods such as massage, Chinese acupuncture, therapeutic instrument training, eye exercises, health care drugs and so on. In fact, these methods cannot reverse or control the development of myopia in children. Because myopia development has genetic factors and a large number of acquired environmental factors, so myopia in young children will still show a trend of deepening after wearing glasses, not the fault of wearing glasses.
Myth #5: It’s good to wear glasses to see clearly, no need for regular replacement
The refractive state of the human eye changes dynamically with age, so it should be checked regularly, for example, half a year for teenagers. In addition, the lenses will affect the quality of vision due to aging and wear of the surface coating. The frame can also be deformed and lead to correction deviation. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to regular optometry and prescription lenses.
Myth 6: Let myopia go, do myopia laser as an adult is good
Myopia is irreversible, if not treated, will lead to high myopia, bringing many eye complications, even if adults do myopia laser treatment, it will be much more difficult. So myopia should be actively treated and good eye habits should be developed. Otherwise, it will be hereditary and make the next generation more myopic.
Myth 7: The more expensive and fashionable the glasses are, the better
A good pair of glasses is not about the high price, but about whether it suits you. Some of the more exaggerated, fashionable large frame glasses, due to the heavy frame, the required lens diameter and heavy, lens optical center shift is not right, wearing position is not stable, etc. prone to lead to optical correction is not allowed, prism effect and aberration increase, resulting in visual fatigue, visual quality decline. Especially some small face, small pupil distance, the degree of deep adolescents, is not recommended to choose large frame optical glasses.
Myth 8: Wearing glasses will cause your eyes to “stick out”
Many people feel that wearing glasses for myopia will cause eye deformation and protrusion, leading to a portion of highly myopic people are very taboo to wear the exact height of the number of glasses. In fact, is myopia deepening eye axis growth and lead to some people eye deformation protrusion, rather than wearing glasses caused. Myopia growth is the cause, eye deformation is the effect, and inappropriate glasses with a significantly lower prescription are more likely to cause visual fatigue and may promote myopia deepening.