Lanzhou Puri Ophthalmologist: How to prevent children from developing high myopia

Myopia patients have a 300-degree increase in myopia for every 1 mm increase in the eye axis. It is common to think of a nearness below 300 degrees as low myopia, 300 to 600 degrees as moderate myopia, and a person above 600 degrees as high myopia.

Lanzhou Puri ophthalmology experts pointed out that in recent years, with the increase in electronic products, the pressure of schoolwork, the incidence of myopia in children has increased greatly, and many children have developed into high myopia in the primary school stage, children's high myopia is very harmful to children's eyes, prone to other complications, and may also lead to permanent visual impairment or even blindness. Therefore, parents and friends must help their children prevent high myopia.

How to prevent high myopia in children? Lanzhou Puri ophthalmology experts gave the following five suggestions for everyone:

1, should not watch TV for a long time, can not play video games for a long time, now many primary and secondary school students play video games, the display screen, words, patterns are very small, the light is also dark. Many children simply forget the existence of time after playing addicted, which is very harmful.

2, develop good eye hygiene habits, writing posture should be correct, a foot away from the book, do not lie on the stomach, lie down to read, do not read in a strong light or dim place, reading time should not last too long, every 50 minutes or so to let the eyes rest for a while, the eyes look to the distance.

3, do eye exercises for eliminating eye fatigue, protecting vision is very important, but also each of us can do the daily protection. However, due to the young age of students, they generally do not recognize the importance of eye exercises, and doing eye exercises is only to cope with errands, so teachers and parents should often urge children to do exercises in place. Do eye exercises also do not stick to once or twice a day, whenever you read a book for a long time or feel visual fatigue, you can do eye exercises.

4. Encourage children to participate in outdoor activities, look at trees, flowers and other green plants, and often take children out of the building group, so that children can look at the wide field of view.

5. Regularly check the vision, find that the vision decline should be diagnosed and treated in time, and the refraction should be re-refracted in time when the degree of myopia is deepened.