Winter vacation degree soaring? Seven-year-old girl with 600 degrees myopia! Don't let bad habits ruin your child's vision

Oriental Network reporter Liu Yilin reported on February 8: Dan Dan (pseudonym), a little girl who is only seven years old, always said that she could not see clearly when she recently looked at things, and from time to time accompanied by eye pain, Dan Dan's parents took her to Shanghai Aier Eye Hospital. The doctor gave the little girl a dilated optometry, and after examination, it was found that the myopia in the right eye was 625 degrees, the myopia in the left eye was 600 degrees, and the vision of both eyes was only 0.15. At a young age, the degree of myopia is as high as 600 degrees, what is going on?

Genetics + eye habits are the main causes of myopia in children

According to ophthalmologist Yang Yong, there are often six or seven-year-old children who suffer from myopia at a young age due to watching TV or playing mobile phones, but it is not common for people like Dan Dan to have myopia of more than 600 degrees.

Dr. Yang said that there are two types of causes of myopia in children in general, one is genetics, and the other is poor eye habits. Among them, poor eye habits account for the majority, and it is also the most common cause of myopia in children. In the case of Dandan, genetic factors account for a higher proportion, about 60% of which are myopia genetic factors, and the influence of acquired eye habits accounts for about 40%.

However, the problem of eye habits should not be underestimated, such as prematurely letting children watch TV, playing tablets and mobile phones. Some parents have long let their children face the iPad and mobile phone electronic products such as small screens, which is easy to cause long-term, close-up use of eyes.

The LED backlight of iPads and mobile phones is very bright, 4 times that of ordinary computer screens. When very close to the eye, the strong light will directly and concentrate into the human eye, and the pupil will continue to contract to adapt to changes in the light source, resulting in a decrease in the child's eye adjustment. It turns out that Dan Dan's parents themselves are highly myopic, and at the same time they care about their children's education, afraid that their children will lose on the starting line, and report various early education classes to their children very early, for convenience, use computers and iPads to download a lot of early education films, and watch with children every day. Who knows, a few years later, the seven-year-old daughter is actually short-sighted.

How to prevent myopia in children

"Myopia prevention and control, prevention is greater than control, of which family prevention and control is the key." Parents are the gatekeepers of children's myopia prevention and control, and they must guard the first line of defense. Dr. Yang Yong suggested that parents should make a winter vacation homework completion plan with their children in advance, and supervise the daily completion on time and quantitatively. And it is necessary to improve the efficiency of learning and avoid prolonging the time to do homework due to procrastination, so as to reduce the burden on the eyes. During homework, rest for 20 seconds every 20 minutes and look at a place 20 feet (about 6 meters) away; take a 10-minute break for 40 minutes per eye, and try not to do homework at night. When reading and writing, you should maintain the correct posture of "one foot, one punch, one inch".

In addition, scientific studies have shown that outdoor activities are an independent protective factor for myopia, and insisting on outdoor activities for 2 hours a day and more than 10 hours per week can effectively prevent the occurrence of myopia. During the winter break, parents can remind their children to increase the number of outdoor activities.

In fact, the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents is a scientific system, which not only requires professional knowledge in preventive intervention, functional examination, refractive correction, myopia prevention and control, but also requires scientific technical means. "It is recommended that parents regularly take children to professional ophthalmic medical institutions for examination from the age of 3, so that myopia risk factors can be detected early, prevented early, and intervened early to avoid children from developing into high myopia." Dr. Yang Yong said.

In order to further improve the comprehensive diagnostic standards for myopia prevention and control, Aier Ophthalmology further upgraded the myopia prevention and control clinic for adolescents, and took the "5P myopia prevention and control mode" as the core to provide comprehensive solutions from "myopia prevention" to "myopia control" for Chinese adolescents.

Dr. Yang Yong reminded that the holiday is a high incidence of pediatric eye diseases, and parents need special attention. During the holiday period, we must protect children's eyes, pay attention to eye hygiene, and prevent infection; avoid long-term contact with electronic products; combine work and leisure, take appropriate rest, and go outdoors for activities. If you have any eye discomfort, please go to a professional eye hospital as soon as possible.

(Liu Yilin)

(Orient Net)