In recent years, "small glasses" more and more. According to statistics, China's youth myopia prevalence rate has exceeded 60%, the prevalence of myopia among young people in big cities and developed areas is higher, showing a trend of rejuvenation. Summer vacation is the peak of the child's capricious use of the eyes, the market a variety of myopia treatment "magic weapon" is a variety of advertisements to solicit business. However, these "magic weapon" can really restore eyesight?
Secret "myopia treatment instrument" "magic weapon" or pit baby?
Case review:
Qingdao's Ms. Huang found his son in elementary school myopia 150 degrees. In order to restore her son's vision, Ms. Huang spent 2,000 yuan on advertised myopia-correcting glasses. As a result, 8 months later, her son's vision did not improve, but the myopia increased to 400 degrees! Ms. Huang, who loves her son, was not willing to listen to the merchant's customer service and chose the higher-sounding 20,000 RMB instrument treatment. The result of the child's myopia still only increased, has more than 500 degrees!
In fact, there are many parents like Ms. Huang, who do their best to save their children's eyesight, which also provides an opportunity for the breeding of various myopia treatment miracle devices such as eye protectors, vision therapy devices, and vision correction glasses. Although these myopia treatment products have been repeatedly exposed by the FDA and CCTV, they still can't curb the ever-changing tumor of the vision correction industry.
Many parents listen to the false propaganda of unscrupulous merchants and bring their children for treatment. As a result, they not only failed to achieve the expected treatment effect, but also wasted money and delayed their condition. According to the relevant person in charge of the Supervision and Law Enforcement Bureau of the Municipal Health Commission, the current vision correction market is a mixed bag. Businesses use different means of treatment, but most can only play a short-term relief of myopia, and can not really treat myopia. Blind use of vision correction products may even cause irreversible damage to children's health.
How to correctly view children's myopia?
Li Li is an expert, chief physician, professor
Director of Beijing Children's Hospital and Oriental Eye Center
Committee member of Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology of Ophthalmology Branch of Chinese Physicians' Association, Standing Member of Ophthalmology Branch of Beijing Medical Association, Member of China Association for the Promotion of International Exchange of Healthcare and Visual Health
Specialties:Refractive error in children (myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism)
Specialties:Refractive errors in children (myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism), different causes of amblyopia in children, *** homonymous internal strabismus, *** homonymous external strabismus, vertical strabismus, paralytic strabismus, special types of strabismus, nystagmus, congenital diseases of the tear ducts, ptosis, conjunctivitis, keratitis, congenital cataracts, congenital glaucoma, tumors of the eye, optic neuropathy.
Professor Li Li, director of the Beijing Children's Hospital and the Oriental Eye Center, pointed out that no matter how the myopia treatment products are updated, there will always be a change of medicine. Because, medical research shows that myopia is caused by the elongation of the eye axis, whether external forces or their own efforts, it is impossible to shorten the eye axis to its original state.
The process of myopia is irreversible. There is no treatment device in the world that can cure myopia! So myopia treatment products under the banner of vision restoration or even improvement are false propositions!
Li Li, director of the special reminder, children should go to the hospital dilated pupil optometry before prescription. Myopic children can be adjusted to determine the actual wearing degree of lenses through optometry; mild hyperopia children, not dilated pupil examination may be misdiagnosed as myopia, may aggravate the visual impairment. So be sure to go to a regular hospital to dilate the pupils of the optometry, to get accurate results of the optometry and then with glasses. Some eyeglasses stores are very simple and never dilate the pupils, so there will be an error between the prescription of eyeglasses and the actual application of eyeglasses. Wearing inappropriate glasses can cause irreversible damage to a child's vision.
Director Li Li said, if the child has the following conditions:
● Squinting or squinting to watch TV;
● Reading books for a long time, the handwriting will be strung together and overlap;
● Looking up at the objects in front of you, there is a sense of if and when, floating unsteadily...
It is best to take your child to a regular hospital and find an authoritative expert as soon as possible to do the relevant examination.
Visual screening can detect children's visual problems in time. At present, in some hospitals with advanced equipment, the use of vision screening instrument can realize binocular synchronous screening, quickly capture the position of the eyes, and only need to take pictures to complete the examination. At the same time, the instrument also has a tracking record function. Each child's vision screening is stored in the instrument like a photo. Doctors can recommend continued observation or further examination and treatment based on these records, so as to avoid missing the optimal age for treatment when the child grows up and discovers amblyopia. Generally, children over 6 months old can cooperate with vision screening.