After school starts, I find that my child’s myopia has worsened. What should I do?

School has started. After a long winter vacation, the children have finally returned to school. But they did not expect Wuhan to start online classes again. After a holiday full of electronic products, they are taking online classes again. Is their child's eyesight declining? Is the degree of myopia worse? All these are headaches for parents...

Don't relax in myopia prevention and control, high myopia can cause blindness

As myopia increases, many people begin to treat it as a common thing and do not take it seriously. “Most people have myopia anyway, so don’t worry too much about it”, “Just play games, it doesn’t matter if your myopia gets worse, just change to a pair of glasses with a higher degree”... Ignoring the dangers of myopia leads to increasingly higher myopia.

This tendency is definitely wrong. As myopia worsens, it is not as simple as changing a pair of glasses. The probability of eye diseases such as macular degeneration, retinal detachment, and glaucoma will also increase. These eye diseases are blinding eye diseases and will bring the risk of blindness. Therefore, after suffering from myopia, remember not to be careless. You should go to a professional ophthalmology institution for a systematic examination and scientific correction. At the same time, develop healthy eye habits to avoid further worsening of myopia.

Don't rush to seek medical treatment, there are ways to control myopia

There is another tendency that deserves attention. Some friends see that their own or their children's myopia is getting worse very quickly, and they can't help but feel anxious, and then they try all kinds of medical treatments, superstitious about some folk remedies or unscientific training that claim to "cure myopia", "restore vision", and "shorten the eye axis". In fact, once myopia is formed, it cannot be cured and can only be corrected through glasses, surgery, etc. Especially for teenagers, whose bodies are still in the development stage, it is normal for the eye axis to grow and myopia to deepen. What we should do is to take scientific means to control the speed of myopia progression and delay the growth of the eye axis as much as possible.

In short, we should avoid these two tendencies. We should neither be indifferent nor rush to seek medical treatment. Dai Hongbin, chief physician, member of the standing committee of the Ophthalmology Branch of Hubei Provincial Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and director of strabismus, amblyopia and pediatric ophthalmology at the Aier Eye Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University, suggested: For adolescents with rapidly worsening myopia, they should go to a professional ophthalmology hospital for examination, file creation, preventive intervention or correction, and adopt scientific prevention and control measures.

How can teenagers effectively control the increase of myopia?

1. Orthokeratology lenses

Orthokeratology is a very effective non-surgical method of correcting myopia. It changes the curvature of the front surface of the cornea by wearing it at night, so that the patient can have clear vision the next day without wearing the lens. It is recognized as one of the effective means to control the development of myopia because it can improve visual quality, effectively eliminate the blurred image of the peripheral retina, and inhibit the growth of the eye axis to a certain extent.

2. Cloud folder

Cloud Clip is a wearable smart eye protection device that can monitor environmental factors related to myopia in real time. It monitors eye habits in five dimensions, including reading angle, reading time, reading light intensity, reading distance, and outdoor activity time, around the clock. When children have problems such as using their eyes for too long, the smart vibration reminds them to develop good eye habits. By connecting to mobile phones, parents can keep track of their children's eye conditions at any time, and promptly supervise and guide their children to use their eyes in a standardized manner. This allows doctors to accurately grasp the development process of myopia and provide better correction plans based on each person's specific situation.

3. Binocular vision function training

The two eyes of a person are not simply a superposition of monocular vision, but a complex work based on binocular accommodation and movement functions in order to provide a good stereoscopic visual experience. The examination of eye accommodation and movement functions is called binocular vision function examination. If binocular vision function disorders are found during the examination, a corresponding visual function training program can be formulated to fundamentally improve visual function and visual comfort. Many adolescents with rapid myopia growth will have abnormalities in binocular vision functions such as accommodation and convergence. Through binocular vision function examination and corresponding training, visual function can be effectively restored, which can also play a role in myopia control.

4. Posterior scleral reinforcement

This is a surgical method that uses allogeneic or autologous biological materials or artificial synthetic materials to reinforce the weakened posterior sclera of the patient's eyeball, allowing it to fuse to form a thickened, tension-resistant "new sclera" to prevent and control the growth of myopia.

5. Multifocal soft contact lenses

This is a soft contact lens designed based on concentric circles or peripheral defocus. After wearing, it can convert the hyperopic defocus properties of the central and peripheral images of the retina into myopic defocus, thereby controlling the growth of the eye axis and delaying the progression of myopia. It is one of the effective myopia control methods currently proven clinically.

6. Multi-point myopia defocus glasses