At what age does a child need to have their vision checked regularly?

If your child is born with no abnormalities, the first comprehensive vision examination can usually be done at age 3 to ensure that vision is developing normally and that there are no other abnormalities in the eye. It is difficult to recover the vision after the examination, and the eyesight can be tracked and monitored through continuous examination data, and the abnormality can be detected in time for personalized prevention and control.

Many parents think that after their children enter primary school, they need to check their eyesight because they use their eyes more. In fact, around the age of 3, after learning to recognize the eye chart, most of the children can cooperate with the eye test, and at this time, they can have a preliminary vision examination.

In the face of the current situation of early onset and high incidence of myopia in children and adolescents in China, many medical practitioners have begun to call for eye examination before the age of 3, record the child's optometry power, axial length, corneal curvature radius, intraocular pressure and other values, and establish eye health records. This helps to detect eye diseases and refractive abnormalities such as myopia, astigmatism, high hyperopia, strabismus and amblyopia as early as possible, screen out high-risk groups of myopia, prevent and control myopia in time, and intervene early.

In ordinary life, if parents find that their children are looking obliquely, tilting their heads, squinting, rubbing their eyes, or watching TV and books very closely, they should be vigilant, it may be a vision problem, and they need to go to a professional eye hospital for a detailed examination as soon as possible.

Nowadays, there are more and more vision problems, and the age is getting younger and younger, so regular check-ups are necessary, and it is generally recommended to check the child's eyesight regularly from kindergarten. Of course, the most important thing is to do a good job of daily protection.

To protect your eyes and prevent myopia, you must start from your daily routine.

Common ways to protect your eyes in daily life are:

1. The time of close eye use should not be too long, every 40-50 minutes, you should take a little rest for 3-5 minutes, and look into the distance to relieve visual fatigue.

2. Read and write, play with the computer, maintain a correct posture, the height of the table and chair should be appropriate, and the distance between the eyes and the reading materials should be about 33 cm.

3. Mix whole grains, meat and vegetables, eat more vegetables and fruits, and don't eat partially. Lack of vitamins in food is prone to night blindness and dry eye disease, and lack of trace elements chromium and calcium in food makes it easy to suffer from myopia. In addition, it is also necessary to pay attention to regular supplementation of eye vision nutrients, not from the nutrients required by the eyes, enhance the anti-fatigue ability of the eyes, and better protect the eyesight.

Fourth, when reading and writing, the light should be moderate, not too strong or too dark, and the light should come from the left front, so as not to obstruct the vision of the hand shadow. The light should be soft, if it is incandescent, it should be between 25 and 40W, and it is not recommended to read in the sun. Because the intensity of light has a direct impact on pupil dilation, too strong light will increase the intensity of eye accommodation, aggravate the intensity of eye labor, and it is easy to cause myopia after a long time.

Generally, desktop lamps should be less than 40 watts.

5. Avoid reading while walking or reading in a walking car. Because the carriage is shaking, the body is shaking, and the distance between the eyes and the book cannot be fixed, the burden on the glasses will increase. Often, this is likely to lead to myopia.

6. Actively participate in physical exercise to enhance physical fitness. As the eyeball follows the target, the ciliary muscles continue to relax and contract, and the synergistic effect of the extraocular muscles can increase the blood perfusion of the eye, promote the metabolism of the eye, and thus reduce eye fatigue. Moreover, the quality of physical fitness is also closely related to the occurrence of myopia in children.

Malnourished and weak children are prone to myopia.

7. Insist on doing proper eye exercises. By massaging the acupuncture points around the eyes to enhance the blood circulation of the eye socket, improve neuronutrition, eliminate the excessive congestion in the eye, and achieve the purpose of relieving eye fatigue, it is conducive to the prevention and treatment of pseudomyopia in adolescents, and is a good way for adolescents to self-care their eyes.

8. Eat less candy and high-sugar foods. Too much sugar will produce a large amount of acidic substances in the blood, and the acid will combine with the salt in the body, especially calcium, resulting in a decrease in blood calcium, which will affect the toughness of the eye wall, make the eye axis easy to elongate, and promote the occurrence and development of myopia.

Visual acuity assessment can be done after birth, but the usual E-letter eye chart visual acuity can usually be performed until the child has sufficient cognitive and expressive skills, and before that, infant vision assessment methods such as graphical eye charts, selective **, and visual evoked potentials can be used. E-letter eye chart visual acuity is usually done at 3 years of age. In the following cases, ophthalmologic examinations should be done as soon as possible after birth

1) Premature infants (2) have a family history of strabismus, amblyopia, high refractive error, etc., and (3) have any abnormalities in the appearance or visual performance of the eyes.

At what age should your child have his or her vision checked.

We all know that the development of children's eyes is staged, and as parents, you should pay attention to observe your child's eye health according to the visual standards of different stages, such asA child born about one month old should be able to see people or objects in 15-30 centimeters of blue socks, about one year old can see small things such as threads and hair, and at the age of two or three years old, he can not only see close, but also begin to be interested in things in the distance, etc

In addition to daily observation, sometimes we need professional examination results to assess whether the child's vision is normal, so at what age is it appropriate to give the child the first vision examination?

It is medically recommended that children should go to the eye hospital for a detailed examination at about 3 years oldIt should be checked at least once a year before school age, and every 3 months to 6 months to 6 months old and above every six months. Regardless of whether there is a vision problem or not, regular check-ups are essential, especially if the parents are children with high myopia.

The age of 3-6 years is also a critical period for visual development and effective development-related eye diseases.

At this stage, the primary task of eye care is to detect amblyopia, refractive error and other abnormalities at an early stage, actively prevent eye trauma, and prevent and treat common eye diseases. Once the examination finds abnormalities, parents should take their children to a regular hospital for correction in time, so as to avoid the best time to delay the lap of the cavity!

Children and adolescents should have an eye test every 6 to 12 months.

Adolescents who have myopia should go to the hospital for optometry and correction in time, and do not use glasses of substandard quality. The degree of myopia will increase with the age of the child, and the refractive status should be rechecked every six months to a year.

Outdoor activity for two hours a day or 10 hours a week can effectively reduce the incidence of myopia. While attaching importance to the problem of myopia in adolescents, do not ignore strabismus and amblyopia, and regularly check the visual acuity and refractive status, early detection and early detection.

The cycle of vision screening for children needs to be discussed on a case-by-case basis

If it is a relatively normal vision at the first visit, such as about the left or right, it is often enough to have a re-examination of the vision every six months or a year. If a decrease in visual acuity is detected, prompt refraction and, if necessary, dilated refraction is required.

However, if the visual acuity is lower than that of a normal peer at the time of the first examination, dilated refraction is required.

If you have myopia, you need to wear glasses in time, and if you have amblyopia, you should also carry out amblyopia ** and training. At this time, the interval between them cannot be re-examined according to the usual six months to one year, but should be determined according to the severity of the disease. Severe amblyopia may need to be re-examined every three months, and myopia with a high degree may need to be re-examined every 3-6 months.

In addition, if you find that the prescription has changed during the review process, you need to adjust it in time and re-prescribe the glasses!

Children's vision examination should be closely related to age, and many kindergartens now have a preliminary vision examination when children enter the kindergarten, when they are 3-4 years old. If it is found that the child's vision is in the normal age range during the examination, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination once every six months, and if it has been found that there is myopia or abnormal farsightedness, or high astigmatism, etc., it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination once every 3 months.

It is best to go for a re-examination every month, if the vision is relatively stable or there is no condition, it is also possible to re-examine it once every six months, which depends on the specific individual situation.