8-year-old children with myopia

It is relatively common for eight-year-old children to be myopic. At this time, parents should go to the hospital in time to check whether the child has true myopia or false myopia. If it is false myopia, it can be improved through certain corrections. After all, the child is young and the correction effect is still good. Of course, if it is true myopia and the degree of myopia is relatively high, this is often related to genetics and can be treated through surgery and other methods.

What to do if an 8-year-old child is nearsighted

How to treat myopia in children? Once you have myopia, the chance of restoring your vision to normal is almost negligible. Only through correction and surgery can your vision no longer deteriorate! Let's learn how to treat myopia in children!

First, correction through lenses, which is a very common correction method. Wearing glasses is the most basic measure to correct children's myopia. For mild myopia that does not affect life and study, it is not emphasized to wear glasses immediately. For moderate to severe myopia, since the distance vision is significantly reduced, if it is not corrected, it will inevitably affect life and study, and glasses must be worn. Before getting glasses, you must first use retinoscopy to find out the true degree of myopia. Eye examination for teenagers should be performed under ciliary muscle paralysis to control the accommodation effect and exclude pseudomyopia. The principle of fitting glasses should be to use the lowest power lens that can correct the myopic vision to the best vision.

Second, high myopia in children under 6 years old is more common in congenital and hereditary conditions, and is often a type of myopia. These children often have poor vision and their corrected vision is not ideal. For progressive myopia, pediatric posterior scleral reinforcement surgery can be considered.

Third, correction through laser surgery. This is a definite treatment for myopia, however, it is not suitable for children.

Misunderstandings in the Treatment of Myopia in Children

If your baby is obsessed with electronic products, it is easy for him to suffer from myopia. Once he suffers from myopia, the treatment is not as simple as correcting it with glasses. In the treatment of children's myopia, there are some treatment misunderstandings that parents need to pay attention to. Let's learn about it!

First, amblyopia often occurs in younger children. Many parents believe that when their children are older, the amblyopia may get better, and there is no need to treat it as soon as it is discovered. Moreover, children are young and don’t care about appearance. In fact, the earlier the treatment period for amblyopia is, the better. Children over 12 years old will be much less sensitive to amblyopia treatment.

Second, children are often in the stage of pseudomyopia in the early stages of myopia. Correction during this period can cure myopia. If your child is found to have symptoms of myopia, you should take him to the hospital to dilate his pupils in time. After dilation, if the child's vision returns to normal, it can be determined that he has pseudomyopia. At this time, children should be urged to pay attention to eye hygiene. This type of eye hygiene mainly refers to protecting vision by giving your eyes a rest. Do not read for more than 45 minutes. During each break, you should look into the distance and look at green objects more often. In this way, if you pay attention for a long time, the symptoms of myopia will gradually subside.

Third, many children who suffer from myopia immediately wear glasses through computer optometry. Although this method allows children to reach normal levels through correction as quickly as possible, there are certain risks in protecting their eyes. Once it is confirmed that the child has myopia, he or she must not only have an eye test and glasses, but also undergo corresponding eye examinations. Especially for those who are having an eye test and glasses for the first time, they must go to the ophthalmology department of a regular medical institution for a comprehensive eye examination to rule out blurred vision caused by other abnormal symptoms, so as to eliminate the hidden dangers brought by eye diseases.