In this case, don't rush to get glasses.

School has started, and some children occasionally complain that they can't see the blackboard clearly in class, which makes parents quite anxious, and they are thinking about whether to buy a pair of glasses to solve the problem. Indeed, with the change of lifestyle and eye behavior, the threat to eye health is becoming younger and more widespread. However, there is one situation. Don't panic when you encounter it. Listen carefully to what Li Liping, an expert in the prevention and control of adolescent myopia at Zhengzhou Aier Eye Hospital, has to say.

Innate farsightedness reserve

Every child is basically hyperopic from birth, and then will go through the development process from hyperopia to emmetropia. The degree of hyperopia during this process is the "hyperopia reserve" of our eyes.

Under normal circumstances, children should maintain hyperopia reserve vision before the age of 8, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of myopia.

Therefore, if your child's vision is tested when he or she is in kindergarten and is found to be farsighted, do not rush to get him or her to wear glasses for correction, as this is a normal eye development process.

What we need to do is to help children develop good eye habits and try to prevent the reserve degree of hyperopia from being consumed too quickly.

The role of hyperopic reserve

Hyperopia reserve is a "God-gift" that children are born with, and it determines whether or not a child will develop myopia in the future, as well as the age at which the child will develop myopia. Therefore, it is very important.

After birth, many children are affected by environmental factors, such as early exposure to electronic devices, constant use of screens every day, and lack of outdoor activities, which leads to rapid consumption of hyperopia reserves and excessive development of the eyeballs.

If the eyeball continues to grow excessively after the age of 6 to 7, it can be predicted that myopia is not far away.

How to protect hyperopia reserve

Hyperopia reserves are a "non-renewable resource" and once they are consumed, they will no longer exist.

Therefore, knowing the child's hyperopia reserve at different stages can help us understand the child's eye development in a timely manner and predict the occurrence of myopia.

Therefore, Dr. Li Liping recommends that children should be taken to a regular ophthalmology hospital for regular eye examinations starting from the age of 3. By establishing a refractive development file, various data on eye development should be recorded, and special attention should be paid to the changing curve of hyperopia reserve.

If the "stock" of hyperopia reserve is abnormal, children should be urged to correct bad eye habits in time, and intervention should be carried out through scientific methods to delay the consumption of hyperopia reserve value as much as possible and delay the onset of myopia.

In the development of eye behavior, do the following

1) Do not let children come into contact with electronic devices too early;
2) Exposure to natural light for more than 2 hours a day. Ensuring sufficient outdoor activities every day can effectively prevent myopia;
3) Avoid unscientific eye habits, such as watching TV/playing with mobile phones without restraint, incorrect sitting posture, too dark or glaring ambient light, etc.

Developing good eye habits from an early age will benefit you for the rest of your life.

Hyperopia reserve is important

Develop good eye habits

It is better to establish a vision record as early as possible

Don’t forget to check regularly