Beware! Children's eyes are facing these "challenges" during the final exam season

"My child has been reviewing for the final exams recently. Will his eyesight worsen faster by doing exercises all the time?" With the final exams approaching, the children are racing against time to review their lessons and do exercises. However, during this critical period, the children's eyes are indeed facing many severe "challenges" that require us to be highly vigilant.

Challenge 1: Risk of decreased visual function

Doing exercises for a long time will keep the child's eyes in a state of tension, just like a spring that is always taut, which can easily lead to poor visual function. For example, the eye's ability to adjust will decrease. Under normal circumstances, the eyes can easily see objects at different distances, but after excessive use of the eyes, distant objects may become blurry, and it will be difficult to see nearby objects after a long time. This is because the ciliary muscles in the eyes are in a state of contraction for a long time, just like a rubber band that has been stretched taut has lost its elasticity, and cannot adjust the thickness of the lens in a timely and accurate manner, thus affecting vision. Moreover, excessive use of the eyes may also lead to a deterioration in the ability of the two eyes to work together, resulting in double vision, ghosting and other phenomena, affecting children's learning efficiency and visual quality.

Challenge 2: Rapid increase in myopia

For children who already have myopia, the final exam season is an even more dangerous period, because excessive use of the eyes will further lengthen the eye axis, causing myopia to increase faster. The eye axis is like the "height" of the eyeball. Under normal circumstances, it will gradually increase with the development of the body, but excessive use of the eyes will accelerate this process, causing the shape of the eyeball to change, and the light will focus farther in front of the retina, and the degree of myopia will deepen accordingly.

Long-term close-up use of the eyes is one of the main reasons for the rapid increase in myopia. If you don't pay attention to it during this period, your child's myopia may increase significantly in a short period of time, which will not only bring inconvenience to the child's life, but also increase the risk of other eye diseases in the future.

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Challenge 3: Potential threat of eye diseases

In addition to the decline in visual function and the rapid increase in degree, excessive use of eyes when doing exercises may also cause some eye diseases. Staring at books or electronic screens for a long time, the eyes cannot get enough rest, which can easily lead to uncomfortable symptoms such as dry eyes, redness, swelling, and pain. This may be caused by eye inflammation such as dry eyes or conjunctivitis. If children often rub their eyes, blink frequently, and have increased eye secretions after doing exercises, parents must pay attention and take their children to the hospital for examination in time. In addition, excessive use of eyes may also increase intraocular pressure and increase the risk of glaucoma. Although this situation is relatively rare in children, it should not be ignored.

Key points: The importance of regular vision checks

Given the challenges that children's eyes face during the final exam season, it is particularly important to take your child to the hospital for a regular vision check. Through professional vision examinations, doctors can keep abreast of changes in your child's vision and eye health, such as whether there is decreased vision, increased degrees, eye diseases, and other problems. If problems are found, appropriate treatment and intervention measures can be taken as early as possible to prevent the problem from worsening. For example, if a child's degree increases rapidly, the doctor can adjust the degree of the glasses according to the specific situation or recommend measures such as wearing orthokeratology lenses to control the development of myopia; if eye diseases are found, they can also be treated in time to prevent the condition from worsening.

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Parents should guide their children to arrange their review time properly and avoid doing long hours of continuous practice. After every 30-40 minutes of study, they should let their eyes rest for 10-15 minutes. They can look into the distance, close their eyes and rest, or do some simple eye exercises. At the same time, they should also pay attention to their children's learning environment, ensure that the light is sufficient and even, and avoid studying in an environment that is too bright or too dark.

Source: Chongqing Aier Children's Eye Hospital Co., Ltd.

Audit expert: Wang Jiale

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