What should I do if my child is nearsighted?

Nowadays, most families have a variety of electronic products. If they are not controlled, children are likely to hold their mobile phones to play games.

If things go on like this, the child’s vision will continue to decline, and myopia will appear early.

So, what is myopia? What to do with myopia? How to prevent myopia in children?

Let's find out!

What are the symptoms of myopia in children

When the child has the following conditions, parents should pay attention to whether the child is suffering from myopia.

If you have the following conditions, please take your child to the hospital for examination, diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible, so as not to delay the condition.

1. Squint often

If the child's eyesight is impaired, he will like to squint.

Because squinting will block part of the pupils, reduce light scattering, and achieve the effect of temporarily improving vision.

Therefore, parents should be vigilant when children frequently squint.

2. Blink frequently

Frequent blinking can make the field of vision clearer and temporarily relieve myopia.

3. Rub your eyes often

If children can't see distant objects clearly, the most common way is to rub their eyes, in order to improve blurred vision through this method.

4. Often tilt your head to look at things

Doing so can reduce the impact of scattered light on the eyes.

5. Frequently frown

It is not feasible to use this method to improve vision. Such frustration will cause the extraocular muscles to aggravate the eyeball and cause the degree of myopia to deepen.

6. Frequent pulling of the corners of the eyes

Pulling the corners of the eyes can also temporarily improve blurred vision.

7. Squint when looking at objects

Some children with myopia may also have strabismus at the same time.

Parents should pay attention to observation. If the child looks forward with one eye and the other eye looks outward unconsciously, it is likely to be squint.

8. Stay close when looking at things

If you can't see clearly, you will look closely.

If children often unconsciously place books close to their eyes to read, or complain that the lights are too dark to see clearly, they are likely to suffer from myopia.

9. Often see the wrong person or can't see things clearly

For example, do not say hello when you encounter familiarity, and often trip over in low-light areas.

Why is my child shortsighted

· genetic factors

Studies have shown that parents with high myopia, children are more likely to suffer from myopia than other children.

This is because high myopia has a certain heredity, but generally the heredity of myopia is not obvious.

Parents should pay special attention to children's eye habits and eye hygiene.

Don't let the child observe something close for a long time, so as to avoid eye fatigue, which can reduce the incidence of myopia to a certain extent.

envirnmental factor

The formation of myopia is directly related to the use of eyes at close range.

The child is young, the eyeballs are not well developed, and the adjustment ability is strong.

Reading and writing at close range will cause the eyeballs to converge and increase the pressure on the extraocular muscles, which will cause the anteroposterior and posterior axis of the eyeball to elongate and form myopia.

This kind of myopia is mostly simple myopia, with low degree and slow progress, most of which belong to true myopia.

1. Use your eyes at close range

After investigation, the main cause of myopia in adolescents and children is prolonged use of eyes at close range.

The child is young and has a high eye adjustment ability, but if he reads closely for a long time, it is easy to increase the burden on the eyes and appear pseudo-myopia.

Using the eyes at close distances for a long time may cause difficulty in ciliary muscle contraction and increase the pressure of the extraocular muscles on the eyeball, resulting in increased intraocular pressure and congestion of intraocular tissues.

In addition, children’s eye tissue is very delicate. If the eyeball wall is compressed, it will continue to extend, which will cause the anterior and posterior axis of the eyeball to become longer.

If the front and rear wheelbase of the eyeball exceeds the normal range, it is true myopia.

The correct distance between the eyes and the book should be 30-35cm.

2. Use eyes for too long

Continuous use of the eyes for more than three or four hours without rest will increase the pressure on the eye muscles.

Over time, keeping the eye muscles in a state of spasm can cause myopia.

The correct way is to use your eyes continuously for 30-40 minutes and you should take a break.

3. Poor lighting conditions

Too strong light can irritate the eyes and cause eye discomfort. But if the light is too weak, it is not clear.

Therefore, whether the light is too strong or too weak is not suitable, it will easily lead to eye fatigue and eventually develop myopia.

4. Reading in the car or while walking

Some children save time and read while walking or in the carriage. This habit is very harmful to the eyes.

Reading in a shaking environment, the distance between the eyes and the book is not fixed, the lighting conditions are not good, the burden of eye adjustment increases, and it is easy to cause myopia.

5. Lying down and reading

It is difficult for a child to lie down and read a book, and it is difficult to keep his eyes on the same level. Therefore, the position of the eyes from the book is also different.

This will increase the burden of adjustment for both eyes, and myopia will occur in the long run.

6. Malnutrition

A child's lack of calcium, zinc and other trace elements can also cause myopia.

What should I do if I am shortsighted

Once a child has symptoms of myopia, we must first determine whether it is true myopia or pseudomyopia.

It is recommended that parents take their children to a professional hospital for mydriatic optometry.

True myopia

It is determined that the child is suffering from true myopia, and the degree exceeds 100 degrees, and it needs to be corrected with glasses.

Children with true myopia should not take off their glasses frequently, but keep their eyes in a state of emmetropism, so as to improve their vision.

Pseudomyopia

If the child is only suffering from pseudomyopia, parents should pay attention to supervising the correct use of the child's eyes, and help the child to restore his vision through rest and certain treatments.

1. Eye movement method

Turn your head up, down, left, and right, while your eyes follow.

2. Blink method

Ask the child to tilt his head back to promote blood circulation by blinking.

If your eyes feel a little tired, you can do several blinking exercises.

3. Alternate cold and hot compresses

Prepare two towels, soak one towel with hot water, and soak the other towel with ice water. Put on a hot towel for 5 minutes and then a cold towel for 5 minutes.

4. Eye gymnastics

Place your hand gently on your face, point your middle finger between the bridge of your nose and the eye socket, and rub back and forth for five minutes.

Then slowly turn his neck left and right, then close his eyes, make a fist with both hands and tap the nape of the neck ten times.

5. Look far and near

Alternating far and near can remove eye fatigue. Ask the child to look far away for 3 minutes, and then look at the palm of the hand for 1-2 minutes, so that the distance alternates between near and far.

6. Combination of work and rest to prevent eye disease

Avoid using your eyes for a long time and develop a good habit of resting for 10 to 15 minutes every hour to relax your eyes.

What nutrition should children add to myopia?

1.Protein

The sclera is composed of a variety of amino acids and is the hard outer shell of the eyeball. It has a certain degree of toughness, but the front and back of the eye axis is relatively weak. Foods rich in protein include eggs and so on.

2.Calcium

Calcium is needed for bone development, and calcium is needed for sclera development. The level of calcium will affect the toughness of the sclera. Myopia patients eat milk, soy products, fish and other foods.

3.Zinc

Zinc deficiency is prone to myopia, so myopia patients should eat more zinc-containing foods such as soybeans, almonds and seaweed.

4. Vitamins

Although the demand for vitamins is small, vitamins still occupy a very important position in the normal operation of the human body.

Myopia patients should eat more foods rich in vitamin A, B1, B2, C, and E in their daily diet.

5. Hard food

Appropriate supplementation can increase eye muscle strength, adjust lens function, and prevent myopia.

Patients with myopia or those who want to prevent myopia should eat more foods such as soybeans and fruits.

6. Lutein

It is a carotenoid, which can meet the needs of normal metabolism of the cornea and retina. Severely lower intake than normal can easily lead to aggravation of myopia, which greatly increases the probability of macular degeneration and blurred vision.

It is rich in green vegetables and citrus fruits, and it is recommended for myopia patients to eat more.

7. Chromium

Chromium is one of the essential trace elements for the human body, and its main function is to maintain the balance of osmotic pressure.

If the intake is insufficient, it will cause the lens to protrude and cause myopia. You can eat more grains, cheese, brown sugar and other foods.

How to prevent myopia

1. When studying, sit upright with your feet flat, a punch distance from the edge of the table, lean your upper body and head slightly forward, your eyes a foot away from the book, and your fingers an inch away from the tip of the pen.

2. Practice correct writing posture, do not overlap the index finger and thumb holding the pen, and hold the pen at the correct angle.

When writing with a hard pen, the angle between the pen shaft and the paper surface is 40~45 degrees, and when writing with a brush pen, the pen shaft is required to be perpendicular to the paper surface.

3. Develop good reading habits. Do not read in the carriage, do not lie on the bed, do not lie on your stomach or tilt your body to read.

4. Eat more purple foods and fish more appropriately. Drinking more chrysanthemum tea can improve eyesight and have a great effect on protecting eyesight.

5. Increase protein intake and reduce carbohydrate intake in the diet. It can increase myopia caused by alleviating heredity and slow down the course of the disease.

So eat less foods with higher sugar content.

6. Actively carry out physical exercises and ensure that children have one hour of physical activity every day.

In particular, sports such as badminton and table tennis that can prevent myopia have obvious effects on improving eye function for children aged 5-9.

7. Do eye exercises seriously.

Misunderstandings to prevent myopia

1. Decreased vision is a manifestation of increased power

When checking vision, the eyeballs should be in the most natural state, so that the most realistic data can be measured.

However, some children's visual acuity through squinting may temporarily improve the visual acuity, but it will cause inaccurate data, but will increase the degree of power faster.

2. The better the vision in childhood, the less myopia

Infants and young children are usually farsighted, which gradually normalizes with age, but if the child's vision develops too fast, it may cause myopia.

It is recommended to check eyesight every three months.

3. Astigmatism cannot be cured

Generally, physiological astigmatism can be improved with growth and development, and other conditions require medical treatment.

It is possible to recover part of it, but it will be more difficult to recover completely.

4. Myopia treatment device

There are a dazzling array of myopia treatment instruments on the market, and businesses claim that they can improve ciliary muscle function by adjusting or stimulating the eyes. But the main cause of myopia is heredity and environment.

Therefore, the effectiveness of this myopia treatment device cannot be evaluated.