Ear acupuncture for myopia in adolescents

  In recent years, the prevalence of myopia among our youth has been high, especially in our 2008 college entrance examination physical examinations, the prevalence of myopia was as high as 86%, and in the face of such a figure, as an ophthalmologist, I sincerely appeal to the whole society to care for children’s eyes – the window to the soul.  Myopia has a real and a pseudo-myopia. As far as the current medical situation is concerned, real myopia is incurable, but pseudo-myopia can be cured through treatment. True myopia, except for those patients with congenital, hereditary myopia, is mostly due to the development of pseudomyopia caused by the initial over-regulation of the eyes, and the performance of pseudomyopia and true myopia are the same, are clear to see near but not far, after the optometry, there are different degrees of myopia, and after the inserts are corrected, can also reach 1.0 normal vision. However, when such patients have their pupils dilated, the prescription will drop significantly, even to a mild degree of farsightedness, whereas in true myopia, the prescription will not drop significantly after the pupils are dilated, so for those patients with pseudomyopia, after active and effective treatment, it is possible to recover normal vision and avoid wearing glasses.  At present, in the ophthalmology department of Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the use of auricular acupressure, together with traditional Chinese medicine and other comprehensive treatment for adolescent myopia, has achieved better results, so that some children with pseudomyopia can recover their vision to normal after treatment, the specific treatment is both through traditional Chinese medicine auricular acupressure treatment, such as eye, eye 1, eye 2, endocrine acupuncture points, according to the different performance of patients, selected different auricular acupuncture treatment, once a week, 5 times a course of treatment. In the process of auricular acupuncture, daily massage of the corresponding acupuncture points should be carried out, and attention should also be paid to eye hygiene, that is, to maintain a good sitting posture during the learning process, especially when lying or lying down, do not read or write, when reading, the light should be moderate, study for 40 minutes to an hour, to take a 10-minute break, do eye exercises or open the window to look away, in order to To let the eyes get rest, as the saying goes, sharpening the knife does not miss the woodwork, the temporary rest is for better learning.  Now for junior high and high school students, the school work is very heavy, every day to study until very late, so the incidence of myopia in this part of the student higher, and the progress of their eyes is also very fast, some children need to change a pair of glasses in a few months, the gradient is deepening, for such groups, want to cure their myopia, or can not reach, but through auricular acupuncture and other comprehensive treatment, completely can Stabilize or slow down the progression of myopia, because for myopic patients, the ability to achieve a stable myopia is undoubtedly a blessing, otherwise, myopia continues to deepen, when reaching a high degree of myopia, the retina in the eye will undergo a series of pathological changes, once the development of this stage, treatment is also a very difficult problem.  Therefore, prevention before disease, both disease and prevention of change, as long as we proactively take measures, for myopia we still have a treatment solution.