What to do if your child has high astigmatism

As living standards improve, families are becoming more and more indulgent towards their children. Children can do whatever they want at home. The snacks they eat are high in calories and fat, so you can see a lot of little fat kids. Children play with mobile phones and computer games, and their eyes become highly myopic or even highly astigmatist. Astigmatism can cause headaches, memory loss, etc. What to do if your child has high astigmatism?

Astigmatism refers to the situation where parallel light rays, after being refracted by the eye's refractive system, do not converge into a single point, but instead become many scattered light images. Astigmatism has a great impact on patients' vision. In addition to causing visual fatigue, it will also affect children's visual development during their growth period, causing amblyopia and strabismus in children.

harm

1. Visual fatigue: In order to improve their vision, patients with mild astigmatism often use methods such as changing accommodation, squinting, torticollis, etc. to correct themselves. Continuous adjustment tension and effort can easily cause visual fatigue. For patients with moderate to high astigmatism, since subjective efforts cannot improve vision, the symptoms of visual fatigue are not obvious.

2. Visual impairment: The degree of visual impairment varies greatly due to factors such as the nature of low-to-moderate astigmatism, the degree of refraction, and the direction of the axis. Astigmatism within the physiological range usually has no effect on farsightedness or nearsightedness. High-degree astigmatism is often combined with radial amblyopia or other abnormalities, which leads to obvious visual impairment and difficulty in obtaining good corrected vision.

3. Large difference in curvature radius: Since the curvature radii of the cornea and lens are inconsistent, the difference in curvature radii between the horizontal and vertical meridians is usually the largest.

4. The hazards of astigmatism in children also include other eye diseases: caused by corneal lens diseases such as keratoconus, corneal clouding, early senile cataracts, etc.

treat

1. If the child has regular astigmatism that does not cause visual impairment and visual fatigue, no treatment is necessary.

2. If children have visual fatigue, no matter how large or small the astigmatism is, even if the astigmatism is very slight, they need to have their pupils dilated for refraction and wear appropriate corrective glasses.

3. If the child's astigmatism is too high and he cannot adapt, he can first wear low-degree corrective glasses to slowly adapt, and then wear high-degree corrective glasses.

It is recommended that parents guide young children to recognize dangerous games and toys to reduce eye injuries. Guide young children to develop good hygiene habits and not touch their eyes with their hands or other items to avoid contracting eye diseases. If they are infected with eye diseases, try to reduce going out.