As the holiday season approaches, the number of parents and children in the Optometry Clinic of the Fourth Hospital is increasing day by day. Optometrists feel equally anxious and heavy in the face of anxious parents whose children’s eyeglass prescriptions are rising. The rising incidence of myopia among young people has become a worldwide problem, and the highest incidence is in Asia. The situation of myopia in China has caused widespread concern among the government, schools and parents, who are at a loss as to what to do, and a variety of products are available. But parents are overwhelmed by the large number of advertisements for so-called myopia treatments. So what about myopia? Can it be cured? This is really a lot of misconceptions in many parents. According to current medical technology, once myopia is formed, the anatomical structure of the eye is changed, and there is no scientific, reasonable and effective treatment method, except for correction by various methods. But myopia and can not be ignored, let it go. It must be corrected in a timely and correct manner or it will only add insult to injury. At present, the main methods of myopia correction are: frame glasses, contact lenses and surgery. These methods are only corrective and do not achieve the purpose of treatment, each of these methods has its own advantages and disadvantages. The most common is frame glasses, which have the advantage of being convenient and economical. However, wearing them on the eyes can restrict the field of vision, and glasses with large prescriptions can also distort vision. If you don’t get the right fit from an optometric professional, you may also experience accelerated progression of myopia and discomfort. The contact lenses have the advantage of a large field of vision and good visual effects compared to the frame glasses, which do not have the advantage of visual distortion. However, for ordinary soft contact lenses, due to their impermeability to oxygen and other disadvantages, adolescents under the age of 16 should choose carefully. Hard contact lenses are unfamiliar to most people, but I’m afraid that when it comes to OK lenses, there will be talk of tigers and avoidance. In fact, OK lenses are also called corneal plastic lenses. In 1998, the Chinese Drug Administration passed the import certification for OK lenses. The keratoplasty lens is a hard, highly oxygen permeable contact lens that is worn on the eye to correct the curvature of the cornea to a certain extent, thereby temporarily reducing the myopia of the eye. Usually worn overnight, they allow myopic eyes to maintain better naked distance vision for a day without any glasses. This is the advantage of keratoconus lenses as they have a slowing effect on myopia progression compared to frames. However, if you stop wearing the lenses, your eyes will slowly regain their original myopia. With current technology, any claim that keratoplasty lenses can cure myopia and remove glasses or permanently reduce myopia is misleading. The professional skills of the person fitting the keratoplasty lens are very important and should be fitted by a trained ophthalmologist or optometrist in a hospital. In addition, the safe use of keratomileusis is largely related to the hygienic habits of the person using it. When adolescents use it, parents must supervise their children to complete the cleaning and disinfection procedures according to specifications. Keratoplasty is a medical technology that requires qualified physicians, qualified lenses and qualified users in order to be both safe and effective. Nor is myopia surgery a treatment for myopia just a corrective method to remove glasses and is not suitable for teenagers. For myopia can only be corrected by the above methods, it is not possible to cure it at all, and the only way to control the occurrence and development of myopia is to seek solutions in terms of prevention. 08 September 4, the Ministry of Education released the “Prevention and Control of Myopia Work Program for Primary and Secondary School Students”, which is the first time since 1988 that China has made such a thorough and detailed revision of the “Program”. The Ministry of Education requires that the importance of myopia prevention be fully understood, and that “nearness prevention” be made an important part of promoting quality education and the physical and mental health of young people. It mentions the need to reduce students’ eye burden, improve students’ eye environment, vigorously carry out myopia prevention science and publicity, establish a student vision examination system, reasonably arrange students’ work and rest and physical activity time, improve the nutritional status and other specific content. The program has specific requirements for schools, educational administration, logistics, classroom teachers, and so on. Many optometrists with a sense of responsibility are taking action in order to implement this program effectively. The optometry clinic of the Fourth Hospital of Harbin Medical University is establishing a refractive development file for every adolescent who visits the clinic, and also holds lectures on myopia prevention and treatment every Wednesday in the waiting hall. The emphasis is on treatment rather than prevention, and the awareness of prevention is weak. Parents are reluctant to take their children to a regular optometry clinic because they are resistant to myopia and unwilling to accept the fact that their children wear glasses. When it gets serious, they blindly believe in all kinds of irresponsible advertisements and go around for “treatment”. This is the biggest misconception about the prevention and treatment of myopia, which directly leads to the dilution of preventive actions. For myopia, a lot of preventive work should be done in advance to prevent the problem before it happens. Children should be examined by a regular optometric medical institution when they enter school age to establish a refractive developmental profile; students should be given reasonable and scientific guidance on myopia prevention and treatment, and the cooperation of parents is crucial in this regard. Therefore, it must be clear: instead of treating myopia afterwards, it is better to prevent it before it happens. If we take the path of prevention, myopia is not only not difficult to solve, but also not very expensive. Only prevention-oriented and comprehensive prevention and treatment can fundamentally solve the myopia problem in China.