What to do if your child has mild myopia

We often see some primary school students wearing glasses. In our country, myopia among primary and secondary school students is a relatively serious problem. If a child has mild myopia, he or she must go to the hospital for examination in time and take formal methods to correct it, especially for some pseudomyopia. Correction through certain methods will gradually restore vision. Of course, if it is true myopia, glasses must be worn to avoid worsening of myopia.

What to do if your child has mild myopia

First, correction through lenses, which is a very common correction method. Wearing glasses is the most basic measure to correct children's myopia. For mild myopia that does not affect life and study, it is not emphasized to wear glasses immediately. For moderate to severe myopia, since the distance vision is significantly reduced, if it is not corrected, it will inevitably affect life and study, and glasses must be worn. Before getting glasses, you must first use retinoscopy to find out the true degree of myopia. Eye examination for teenagers should be performed under ciliary muscle paralysis to control the accommodation effect and exclude pseudomyopia. The principle of fitting glasses should be to use the lowest power lens that can correct the myopic vision to the best vision.

Second, high myopia in children under 6 years old is more common in congenital and hereditary conditions, and is often a type of myopia. These children often have poor vision and their corrected vision is not ideal. For progressive myopia, pediatric posterior scleral reinforcement surgery can be considered.

Third, correction through laser surgery. This is a definite treatment for myopia, however, it is not suitable for children.

What is myopia in children?

Firstly, environmental factors are the most likely cause of eye refraction in current clinical research. Creating a harsh visual environment, visual deprivation and restricting distance vision can cause young animals to become highly myopic. Children's heavy close-range work and poor visual hygiene conditions are important causes of the occurrence and development of simple myopia in children and adolescents.

In addition, if both parents or only one parent is nearsighted, the child is more likely to develop myopia. Because through large-scale population surveys and twin studies, it has been proven that myopia is an eye disease that is closely related to genetics. High myopia is an autosomal recessive trait, while simple myopia is a multifactorial trait.

If you want to prevent and treat myopia, you should start by improving children’s learning environment, cultivating good eye habits, increasing outdoor activities, and strengthening physical fitness.