Myths about myopia and vision development in children series (III)

Many people believe that it is better for children not to wear glasses, the later they wear them the better, once they wear them, they can not be taken off, and wear them for a long time, the eyes will be sucked out like frog eyes. Feng Yu, Ophthalmology Department, Xinxiang Central Hospital, Henan Province, China However, these views are not correct. First of all, if children say to their parents that they can’t see things clearly, don’t panic, this is not necessarily myopia, because myopia is divided into true myopia and pseudomyopia. Generally speaking, from a medical point of view, less than 100 degrees is pseudomyopia, which is a kind of myopia that can be corrected through treatment. But one important point is that children must go to the hospital for the first examination, and cut responsible physicians will let the child point a kind of dilating medicine called atropine, point three days after the child’s real degree of examination (because the child’s ability to adjust, not so, the measurement is inaccurate). The optical store will not do this because it wants you to get glasses as soon as possible, and if the physician does not do the same, it is either a matter of standard or ethics. If the final test is pseudomyopia, fortunately, normal vision will be restored through treatment and exercise (expertise is not overly exhaustive). If it is true myopia, from a medical point of view, it is best to get glasses, because theoretically, if you do not get glasses, the child can not see things clearly, they will squeeze their eyes to look harder, so then the eyes will get tired faster, which will lead to further acceleration of eye myopia. This is the opposite of what some people think will only lead to faster myopia once they wear mirrors. There is also the fact that wearing glasses can cause the eyes to be sucked out, like frog eyes, this I have not found this from all the ophthalmic literature I have read. However, I will say that the phenomenon is that many people with high myopia (that is, people who people think wear glasses as thick as the bottom of a wine bottle) have bulging eyes because people with high myopia, themselves, are highly myopic because their eyes are longer than others (that is, they look more bulging outward than normal), and that is what causes them to wear glasses with the bottom of a wine bottle. In other words, it’s the person’s eyes that are bulging more than normal in the first place that leads to wearing glasses of that height. Many people look at people with bottle-bottom glasses as protruding eyes and assume that they wear glasses first before their eyes protrude, which is a reversal of the order. To summarize, first, if a child can’t see clearly, the first time to check the eyes, must go to the hospital, and must be dilated three days after the examination. Second, if your child is nearsighted and needs to wear glasses, try to wear them, it will slow down the development of myopia. Third, wearing glasses will not cause the eye to protrude.