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During the Spring Festival holiday, children's exposure to electronic products has increased significantly, and excessive and poor eye habits can easily lead to vision loss. With the start of the school season, the number of students visiting hospitals to screen for vision and optometry has increased. As the saying goes, the eyes are the windows of the soul, so how should we protect the vision of children and adolescents and care for the health of the eyes?
The eye, like a delicate machine, the curvature of the cornea, the shape of the lens and the distance between the parts must be very precise, otherwise it will cause the eye to see clearly. The distance from the cornea to the lens to the vitreous to the retina is called the eye axis. After myopia, the eye axis is longer, and for every 1 mm increase in the length of the eye axis, the degree of myopia will increase by about 300 degrees.
Chief Physician of the Department of Ophthalmology of Ankang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Kou Lieling
Myopia has axial myopia, curvature myopia and mixed myopia, as the eye axis grows we can predict how much myopia this child will develop, if your child's eye axis is too short or too long, exceeding the matching value of normal age, it is also easy to occur myopia.
According to the doctor, the causes of myopia in children and adolescents mainly include excessive continuous use of the eyes, insufficient light in the reading place, incorrect writing posture, and lack of attention to eye hygiene. With the high frequency of use of electronic products, the age of myopia incidence is advanced to 3 to 7 years old. So how to protect your eyesight during the school season?
Regular monitoring of vision, to ensure a good (learning) habits, as well as the usual reading, can not walk while reading, can not lie down to read, there is a very dark light when reading books are not OK, and then one is to read books or write homework, can not be particularly long, if more than 30 to 45 minutes, the eyes should rest for 20 minutes, let the ciliary muscles of the eyes relax, to avoid long-term close distance after causing eye fatigue.
In addition, children and adolescents should also participate in outdoor activities, adhere to 2 hours a day, more than 14 hours a week outdoor activities, can effectively prevent the formation of myopia. Doctors remind parents that when children are found to be looking at objects often squint, frequent blinking, often rubbing their eyes, frowning, pulling the corners of the eyes and other behaviors, they need to be vigilant about whether myopia occurs, and parents must take their children to regular hospitals to check their vision and carry out corresponding treatment.
If the child has myopia, we must regularly go to the standardized hospital to do optometry, to bring appropriate glasses, it is recommended to do a vision examination, refractive examination, do an eye axis, and do a dilated refraction in half a year to prevent the occurrence and development of myopia in children.
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