Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Zhang Hua
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The Ministry of Education's 2022 work points released on the Ministry of Education's website on February 8 are clear, and the overall myopia rate of children and adolescents is reduced by 0.5 to 1 percentage point compared with 2021.
According to the reporter's understanding, from 2018, the overall myopia rate of children and adolescents in the country was 53.6%, and by 2019, the overall myopia rate fell to 50.2%, that is, 2019 was 3.4 percentage points lower than in 2018.
From 2019 to 2020, due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, by the end of 2020, the overall myopia rate of children and adolescents rose to 52.7%, which was 52.7% up 2.5 percentage points compared with 2019, and still decreased by 0.9 percentage points compared with 2018. It can be said that the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents has made significant progress in the past three years.
A sudden epidemic has changed the way many students learn, and the problem of "small glasses" has once again attracted widespread attention. In the face of the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, where should we start to deepen the prevention and control of myopia in adolescents?
In May 2020, the National Health Commission issued the "Guidelines for the Prevention of Myopia in Children and Adolescents During the Covid-19 Epidemic", which mentioned that it is necessary to increase children's outdoor activities and advocate increasing outdoor exercise in open, ventilated and non-dense places, which is conducive to the prevention of myopia and can play a role in controlling the development of myopia for children who have already developed myopia. This is not contradictory to epidemic prevention and control, but it is necessary to do a good job in prevention and control.
Recently, the National Health Commission specifically pointed out that when outdoor activities, children should reduce close contact with others as much as possible, avoid getting together, and wear masks when they need to communicate with other children or other people. When children are outdoors, especially young children should be accompanied by adults. At the same time, parents should pay attention to the hygiene of children, especially hand hygiene. Be sure to instruct your child not to touch the mouth, nose and mouth with your hands. Children should not spit on the ground when exercising outdoors, and pay attention to covering their mouths and noses with tissues and elbows when sneezing and coughing.
In addition, children should take off their coats and wash their hands in time after returning home from outdoor sports, in the case of such safety measures, children in the outdoor activities are very beneficial to exercise and prevent myopia. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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