Do children have to wear glasses if they are nearsighted?

If the myopia is below 100 degrees and does not affect the usual daily life and study, glasses can be dispensed; Otherwise, you will need to wear glasses. Children must undergo dilated refraction for the first time to determine whether there is pseudomyopia, which can generally be recovered after dilated pupils, and does not need to wear glasses.

1.Correction of vision.

Myopia cannot be focused on the retina because the light is too far away, making it very unclear. This is also the reason why most children go for check-ups. If they do not wear glasses to correct at this time, it will cause adjustment spasms, and myopia is more likely to deepen.

After wearing glasses for myopia, you can get clear vision so that your vision can be corrected.

2.Slows down myopia progression.

Myopia begins at school age, and as you get older, the degree of myopia also increases, and tends to stabilize around the age of 18-20. Therefore, the deepening of myopia is the development process of myopia itself, and this development process is irreversible and not caused by wearing glasses. The degree of myopia progression is significantly reduced compared to patients with myopia who do not wear glasses.

3.Reduces eye fatigue in people with myopia.

I often hear parents complain that their children don't want to read, that their children have a bit of an eye and headache when they read, that their children don't like to read, and that they blindly blame their children. In fact, a large part of the reason is myopia leading to vision loss and visual fatigue.

4.Prevent proptosis of the eye.

One of the reasons why many parents don't want to wear glasses for their children for myopia is that they are afraid of their child's eyes being deformed. The so-called deformation is when they feel that their eyeballs are protruding outward, affecting their aesthetics. The cause of proptosis is a noticeable increase in the anteroposterior diameter of the eyeball, i.e., the axis of the eye becomes longer, resulting in a mismatch with the orbit.

If glasses are worn to correct myopia at the beginning, the eye axis will slowly increase or even change, and the proptosis will be greatly reduced.

5.Does wearing glasses deepen myopia?

After myopia is diagnosed, whether to wear glasses is also a headache for parents. Does wearing mirrors really deepen myopia? Actually, no.

If myopia is not corrected or overcorrected, it will pay more attention to fatigue and make the eyes in a state of long-term tension adjustment, which will deepen myopia. Therefore, the act of wearing glasses will not aggravate myopia, but the eye fatigue and bad habits caused by wearing glasses with inappropriate prescriptions will promote the development of myopia.

If it is indeed myopia after examination, it must be corrected with glasses, otherwise it will increase the burden on the eyes and the prescription will increase rapidly.

To control the growth of myopia in children, we recommend Egger Ophthalmology's orthokeratology lenses, which can be worn when you sleep at night and taken out during the day, so that you can have clear vision all day long, which is very good.

If the child's myopia of 300 degrees is obtained by regular dilated refraction, glasses should be worn. Children are myopic and have experienced myopia, but some parents think that wearing glasses will affect the appearance of their children, which is inconvenient, and they are also worried about the increase of myopia, so they blindly avoid children wearing glasses, refuse to give their children optometry glasses, and hope to change the myopia degree of 300 degrees through physical methods. However, if the myopia obtained by dilated refraction is 300 degrees, it is theoretically impossible to **, and glasses are required.

However, there are a variety of options when wearing glasses, such as functional myopia lenses that inhibit the progression of myopia. You can also consider wearing orthokeratology lenses to correct myopia by wearing them at night and removing them during the day, which can also facilitate your child's activities.