It can’t be fake! Is your myopia real or fake?

Have you often heard these views?

My eyes are starting to lose clarity.

"It's just pseudomyopia. It will get better."

Can’t see clearly and don’t wear glasses?

"It's just pseudomyopia. Wearing glasses will turn it into real myopia!"

What exactly is pseudomyopia?

What is true myopia?

1True or False? True myopia refers to refractive error caused by the eye axis becoming too long. Once true myopia is formed, it is irreversible. According to current medical methods, myopia cannot be cured, but can only be controlled to prevent myopia from getting worse.

Pseudomyopia refers to visual fatigue caused by accommodation spasm , which causes light to focus in front of the retina and makes it difficult to see clearly. When the eyes relax, the light refocuses on the retina and the vision improves to normal.

2****How ​​to identify

0 1 You can use ciliary muscle paralyzing drugs (also known as mydriatic drugs) to stop the ciliary muscles from working, so that the eyes are in a natural state and then perform an eye test to obtain the true refractive power of the eyeball.

If vision improves or recovers after adjusting to stillness through mydriasis, and the "myopia" phenomenon disappears, it may be pseudomyopia.

If after fully dilating the pupil, the myopia is still greater than 50 degrees, it is true myopia and requires regular follow-up and timely adoption of appropriate corrective measures based on the specific situation.

0 2Once you find blurred vision, you must go to a regular medical institution for examination. Only through professional examination can you determine whether it is true myopia or false myopia.

Most cases of true myopia are axial myopia or curvature myopia, which means that the eye axis is growing or the corneal curvature is too steep, which can be detected by equipment. If the examination finds problems such as eye axis growth, it is true myopia.

3 Methods of correction and myopia prevention and control

1. Pay attention to your child’s behavior. From a behavioral perspective, outdoor activity time, close eye time, ambient lighting, and eye posture all need to be controlled.

2. Prevent and control myopia progression from a medical perspective. For example, OK glasses and microstructured frame glasses have similar principles for controlling myopia, which is to produce a peripheral myopic defocus, which is equivalent to some small micro lenses in the periphery, focusing the peripheral light in front of the retina to reduce the development of axial lengthening, thereby controlling the progression of myopia. This conclusion has been demonstrated by a number of multi-center randomized controlled clinical studies at home and abroad.

3. Drugs. For example, low-concentration atropine eye drops are also clinically proven to be effective in preventing and controlling myopia.

For children with myopia, early adoption of effective prevention and control measures can effectively reduce the risk of developing high myopia in the future. It is recommended to adopt a prevention and control method, such as OK lenses, microstructured frame lenses, and low-concentration atropine eye drops. If the myopia control effect of a single prevention and control measure is not ideal, you can consider combined use, such as low-concentration atropine eye drops combined with OK lenses, or low-concentration atropine eye drops combined with microstructured frame lenses, etc., to obtain a better myopia delay effect.

Director Zhou Xiaobo of the optometry department of Wuhan University Aier Eye Hospital reminds: Although children may develop pseudomyopia due to visual fatigue, they may also develop true myopia due to overdevelopment of the eyeball. Therefore, when children show myopia, they should not be considered pseudomyopia just because they are young, and should go to the hospital as soon as possible to find out the truth.