The eye is one of the most important sensory organs of the human body, and it is our window for observing and perceiving external things. Having a healthy and bright pair of eyes is everyone's wish. However, in recent years, there have been more and more myopia patients in children and adolescents on the mainland, showing a trend of increasing and younger age year by year. According to the results of the Ministry of Education's survey of the changes in the vision of middle and primary school students in 9 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities during the epidemic period, the incidence of poor vision among the surveyed students increased from 59.2% to 70.6%, of which the rate of poor vision among primary school students was 61.6%, the rate of poor vision of junior high school students was 80.3%, and the rate of poor vision of high school students was 89.3%.
From the above data, it can be seen that myopia has become the number one "killer" affecting children's health. But unfortunately, many parents do not have a correct understanding of the harm of myopia, but simply think that myopia is a loss of vision, can not see the distant things, as long as with glasses or grow up to do a myopia surgery on the line, no big deal. However, the harm of myopia is far more serious than parents think.
1. Bring a variety of complications
In addition to myopia, which can lead to a decrease in children's vision, it will also cause various complications including retinal tears, retinal hemorrhages, retinal detachment, macular degeneration, glaucoma, etc., and the higher the degree of myopia, the greater the chance of disease.
2. Affect children's learning efficiency
Decreased vision often causes eye fatigue, that is, after reading for a long time, the child's eyes appear blurred, ghostly, bloated, eyeache, dry eyes, burning sensation in the eyes, tears, itchy eyes, foreign body sensation, and orbital pain. Serious enough that it can even lead to headaches, dizziness, easy fatigue, nausea, vomiting, psychological anxiety, irritability and other symptoms in severe cases, resulting in children reading books, need to pay more time and brain power, in order to catch up with children with normal vision, thus affecting the child's learning efficiency.
3. Influence future career choices
It is every child's wish to enter a good university, study your favorite major, and realize your dreams. However, many majors in universities have requirements for students' vision, and if there is myopia, children cannot enroll in these majors.
4. Daily life is affected
Although myopia can be corrected by wearing glasses or surgery, it will bring a lot of inconvenience to the child's future life, and even safety hazards. For example, when exercising without glasses, you can't see clearly, and wearing glasses is easy to break your glasses. Some people may say that I can wear contact lenses, but even if I wear contact lenses, it may cause the child to detach his retina because his myopia is too high.
5. Affect children's mental health
Wearing glasses will not only affect the beauty of the face, but also may make the child rejected by classmates, and even have an insulting nickname. In the long run, some children who are not confident will have low self-esteem, self-abandonment, anxiety, introversion and other emotions, which will affect children's mental health.
6, myopia is passed on to the next generation
Myopia has a certain genetic probability, according to statistics, if both parents are highly myopic (greater than or equal to 600), the child has a 45% chance of myopia; if the parent is highly myopic, the child has a 25% chance of myopia; if the parents are not highly myopic, the probability of the child's myopia is only 12%.
Therefore, after finding that the child is suffering from myopia, parents must not pay attention to it, but should immediately take the child to the eye hospital or clinic to control the development of the child's myopia and myopia.