With people's attention to myopia in adolescents, some industries for myopia prevention and control have quietly emerged. In recent years, many products have appeared on the Internet that claim to improve vision and even reduce the degree. However, the reporter's experience found that many of these products have problems such as exaggerated publicity and misleading consumption, which must arouse the attention of the majority of parents!
[Correctional institutions say that they can take off the mirror in 28 days and check that the products are cosmetics]
Wanshibao is an eye care brand in Nanjing, which is said to be very professional in the prevention and control of myopia in adolescents. On March 7, the reporter came to Wanshibao's offline store in Nanjing's Yuhuatai District. The clerk recommended an "eye spray" to reporters. According to the clerk, this eye spray contains forsythia, camphor leaves and other natural plant wall-breaking extracts.
The clerk said: "Pour it into our box, underneath it is a nebulizer, facing the eyes, then opening the eyes to spray for 3 to 5 seconds, then closing for another 10 seconds, morning and evening spraying." ”
The instructions show that this spray can prevent myopia. On the online sales platform, merchants claim to be able to solve the troubles of myopia, farsightedness, and astigmatism. But the reporter noticed that the production batch number on the outer packaging showed that this eye spray was actually cosmetics.
The reporter also noticed that the store posted the slogan "Teenagers take off their glasses in 28 days". In this regard, the clerk said that their eye spray with an eye care package can achieve this effect: "For acquired myopia, the treatment effect is very good, it is an effect that can be removed." Teenagers 6 to 18 years old, myopia below 400 degrees, can help him take off the lens for 28 days. ”
Such propaganda has been suspected of violating the law. As early as 2019, the National Health Commission and other six departments jointly issued a notice clarifying that myopia correction institutions must not use expressions such as "rehabilitation", "recovery", "reduction of degree" and "cure of myopia" to mislead children, adolescents and parents.
【Eye patches that only have a cooling effect are packaged to "reduce the degree"】
In addition to sprays, an eye patch product that claims to improve eyesight has also become popular on the Internet in recent years. The reporter searched for two brands on the Internet, "Vision" and "Mu Xiaoyue", and their products are cold eye patches. On March 4, the reporter contacted the customer service staff of Vision Anda and Mu Xiaoyue respectively. Mu Xiaoyue's customer service staff told reporters that their eye patches contained 39 kinds of valuable Chinese medicine ingredients such as Dendrobium officinale and ginseng; the customer service staff of Visionda also said that their products extracted a variety of Chinese herbal essences: "The formula provided by an old Chinese medicine doctor, we bought it out." He has been engaged in TCM ophthalmology for three generations, and we are also the principles and components of TCM, and at the same time we have added some things such as nanotechnology. ”
For the efficacy of these eye patches, the customer service staff said that after the ingredients in the eye patches are absorbed by the eyes, they can "reverse myopia" and reduce the degree of myopia: "If a set of eye patches has three courses of treatment, it is no problem to reduce myopia by 50 to 100 degrees." ”
The customer service staff of Vision Reach said that their eye patches can activate visual cells, improve vision, and half an hour can be effective: "For example, before you experienced, a check of the vision value is 4.6, half an hour we experienced, at least to 4.8, 4.9, you test again the next day, the effect is still in, the effect is likely to be better than the previous test." ”
One said it could reduce the degree, the other said it could improve vision, and such propaganda was obviously suspected of violating the law. In addition, the reporter learned according to the product production batch number inquiry that the eye patches sold by Vision And Mu Xiaoyue are officially called "medical eye cold compresses", which belongs to "a class of medical devices". The inquiry learned that the effect of the medical eye cold compress is only "for physical cooling of the human body" or "cooling of specific parts".
In fact, as early as December 2021, we exposed a chain of eye vision care agencies, and their products are also a kind of cold eye patch and cold pack gel. The clerks of the Muzhongming chain claim that applying eye patches and gels to the eye area of myopic children, combined with massage techniques, can improve vision. After being exposed by us, the store involved was investigated and punished by the regulatory authorities and asked to stop exaggerating the publicity.
[Regulatory authorities: cold eye patch is a cooling device should not contain pharmacological ingredients]
Whether it is a cold eye patch or a cold gel, it is a "physical cooling device" in the medical device classification catalog. According to the regulations, "physical cooling equipment" should not contain ingredients that "exert pharmacological effects". That is, these eye patches cannot be filled with medication. The relevant person in charge of the Nanjing Market Supervision Bureau said that if it is really like what Vision Da and Mu Xiaoyue advertised, their eye stickers contain a variety of Traditional Chinese medicine ingredients and can be absorbed by the human body, then it is suspected of violating the law.
Li Yunxiang, deputy director of the Medical Device Department of the Nanjing Municipal Market Supervision Bureau, said: "That is definitely not allowed, just to put it bluntly, it cannot be added, if these things are added, it will not become a ointment, it will become a drug." ”
【Ophthalmologist: Myopia irreversible Cold compress products can only relieve fatigue】
Ophthalmologists said that in addition to surgical methods, "myopia is incurable, the degree is irreversible" has become common knowledge in the medical community, and the myopia correction products that claim to reduce the degree and improve vision on the market are not credible. Sprays, cold compresses or massages are simply to relieve eye strain.
Diao Pengfei, deputy chief physician of the Department of Ophthalmology of Yifu Hospital affiliated to Southern Medical University, said: "Its role is relatively limited, mainly focusing on promoting local, promoting eye-eye acupoints, and saving bamboo acupoints, which is to promote eye blood circulation and then relieve fatigue." ”
In addition, experts also stressed that although myopia cannot be cured and reversed, it can be prevented and controlled in the right way to deepen the degree of myopia too quickly. The "Guidelines for appropriate techniques for the prevention and control of myopia in children and adolescents" clearly states that increasing daytime outdoor activities and wearing glasses are the two preferred prevention and control methods; if the degree of myopia develops too quickly, two other means can be taken: "In addition to wearing glasses, if the child's myopia develops too quickly, you can also choose to wear OK lenses, that is, orthokeratology lenses." Some drugs can also be used, such as atropine eye drops at a 0.01% concentration. ”
The myopia rate of adolescents and children on the mainland is still in a high position. On the one hand, many parents are anxious because of this; on the other hand, it has also led to the myopia correction industry becoming more and more developed in recent years. In this context, some vision care companies and brands use this fish to confuse and fool parents with exaggerated efficacy and seek huge profits. First of all, remind parents: children have myopia problems, it is best to go to a regular hospital for treatment, listen to the advice of experts. Secondly, remind the regulatory authorities: in recent years, there have been many chaos in the myopia correction industry, and the good and bad of various myopia correction institutions are uneven, and it is very necessary to increase supervision and control, adopt centralized rectification methods, and remove brands and enterprises that exaggerate publicity and operate in violation of the law from the market.