How to treat children myopia? Check first!

Update Date: 2021-12-03 Source: Network

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Children myopia, as parents, the most important thing is to correctly judge whether the need to give children with glasses. First of all, we should judge which stage the children suffer from myopia: pseudomyopia, mixed myopia or true myopia. To accurately identify the type of myopia, we must go to a professional eye agency after expert testing. How to treat children's myopia.

How to treat children myopia? Check first!

First: the first step is to do eye health related examination, including slit lamp and fundus lens. Slit lamp examination can exclude keratitis, trichiasis, cataract and other eye diseases, and fundus lens can exclude glaucoma and other diseases, which may cause vision loss.

Second: the second step is to dilate the pupils. For the first-time opticians, they should dilate the pupils regardless of their age. Generally, the hospital requires that the time of dilation under 12 years old should be more than one week. Only when they are over 12 years old, they can dilate the pupils for a short time. They drip atropine mydriatic solution 5 times continuously, with an interval of 5 minutes each time. The hospital adopts advanced technology, which can rapidly dilate pupils for all people (including children under 12 years old), and it can be completed in about an hour.

Third: the third step to do binocular vision function adjustment check, through the check can make clear the binocular vision collection, scattered degree of cooperation, can make the glasses more suitable.

matters needing attention

True myopia after excluding pseudomyopia, if the child's eyes still have true myopia more than 200 degrees, should consider for the child to wear appropriate glasses. In order to control the further decline of children's vision, treatment measures should be taken actively at the same time, such as paying attention to eye hygiene, strengthening nutrition and health care, insisting on treatment, etc. Otherwise, the child's myopia will increase by about 75 degrees a year until the age of 18.