Contents:
- Medical Video: How to Look More Attractive | How Wearing Glasses Can Make You Look Better
- Why do more children have to wear glasses?
- What causes minus eyes?
- How do you find out if your child needs to wear glasses?
- Tips for maintaining the health of myopic eyes
Medical Video: How to Look More Attractive | How Wearing Glasses Can Make You Look Better
Today is a time of technology, so children are in contact with electronic devices faster. However, this has many negative consequences. One of them is miopi aka nearsightedness or minus eye, which makes many children have to wear glasses at a very young age.
Why do more children have to wear glasses?
Every day, almost all children spend a lot of time with a smartphone or iPad, television, etc. If they have free time, they will play video games all day long. However, you should know that a laptop or cellphone, ipad, and other gadget screens have a worrying style of field.
If children are close to electronic devices for a long time, their vision will be limited. They will see things that are far away unclear. Their vision will be blurred and it is difficult to determine the exact position of an object far away from them.
Children who are nearsighted cannot see the TV screen or whiteboard at school. Therefore, they need a device that can help improve their vision. This is why these children then need to wear glasses.
What causes minus eyes?
Nearsightedness or minus eye occurs when the cornea is too curved. So, when the light enters, the eye cannot focus properly. The distance to the object becomes blurry.
At present, the causes of minus eyes have not been clearly determined. Maybe the cause has dropped. If one or both parents of children suffer from nearsightedness, the child can get farsightedness.
Apart from congenital factors, myopic can be affected by the way you look after your eyes. If you always read with bad lighting and spend a lot of time with a computer, you will more easily have minus eyes.
In children whose eyes continue to grow, farsightedness will develop until around the age of 20 years. However, myopia can also be experienced by adults due to visual stress, cataracts, or diabetes.
How do you find out if your child needs to wear glasses?
If your child has unusual signs, you should take him to the doctor. In a hospital or clinic, the doctor will measure a child's vision with a visibility test. Your child will close one eye and read the alphabet board with various font sizes from small to large. Then, the doctor will test again with the monitor. The final results will help you know whether your child needs glasses or not.
The best person's normal vision is from 9/10 to 10/10. If your vision is less than that number, you mean nearsightedness.
Tips for maintaining the health of myopic eyes
When you know that your child must use glasses at all times, he must learn how to live with these conditions and maintain the health of his eyes. Apply the following habits.
- Always clean your glasses regularly.
- Not only glasses, eyes are also important to be kept clean. Use eye drops or special eye drops regularly if recommended by a doctor.
- Let the eyes rest enough in a day.
- Hold the cellphone at a distance of 10 cm from the eye.
- Do not read or use cellphones and laptops in a dark place because the eyes need to adjust more.
- Add more foods that are rich in vitamin A to everyday foods, such as carrots, tomatoes, pumpkin, papaya, paprika, lettuce, etc.
- Consume more Omega-3s. This substance is mostly contained in fish oil.
The signs above are basic knowledge that you can easily recognize. Prevent your child from being nearsighted as best as you can.
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