If your child has myopia for examination, he or she will need to have a visual acuity examination, an optometry examination, a slit lamp microscopy, and a fundus examination.
Myopia is a common disease in ophthalmology, belonging to a type of refractive error, and children and adolescent patients are the high prevalence of myopia.
Myopia patients need to do the following tests when they go to the hospital for examination:
1. Visual acuity examination: It can understand the patient’s current naked eye vision, so as to assess the impact on normal life.
2. Optometry examination: It can clarify whether the patient currently has myopia and the specific degree of myopia.
3. Slit-lamp microscopy: to find out whether the patient has corneal inflammation or congenital cataracts, which may affect the vision.
4. Fundoscopic examination: it can find out whether the patient has high myopia retinopathy and other related complications.
Patients with myopia should go to the ophthalmology department of the hospital for examination in a timely manner, and the doctor will formulate a correction plan after understanding the condition of the eyes.