Tang Lihan

How does a child's eyesight change if he is often exposed to electronic devices from the age of 300? Recently, Xiao Fan (pseudonym), a 0-and-a-half-year-old child Xiao Fan (pseudonym), who was treated in the adolescent myopia prevention and control clinic of Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital, gave the answer - myopia in one eye in the right eye is as high as 0 degrees, and the high astigmatism in both eyes is up to 0 degrees.

What is shocking is that parents not only connived at their children to use their mobile phones to watch short videos, but even when their children cried before going to bed, parents even used the method of "lying down and playing with their mobile phones" to soothe them to sleep. This case really sounded the alarm for the majority of parents: myopia prevention and control must start from infancy!

Recently, 300 and a half years old Xiao Vanadium came to Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital for treatment due to frequent eye rubbing and photophobia. After a comprehensive and professional eye examination, Xiao Vanadium was diagnosed with 0 degrees of myopia in the right eye and 0 degrees of astigmatism in both eyes, and there was a significant anisometropia in both eyes.

In general, the axial length of the newborn is 24-0mm at birth, and the axial length of the eye reaches 0mm-0mm at the age of 0, while the axial length of the right eye of the small vanadium is 0mm, which is equivalent to the axial length of the child in adulthood.

The doctor's medical history revealed that the cause of the vanadium's vision problems was complex, and both genetic and environmental factors were involved. It turned out that Xiao Vanadium's mother had poor eyesight since childhood, but she had not received professional examination, and she may have an undiagnosed genetic predisposition to high myopia.

In addition, according to the child's parents, Xiao Vanadium has been in contact with mobile phones, tablets and other electronic products since he was 1 years old. In daily life, children often use their mobile phones to watch short videos, cry before going to bed, and parents even use "lying down and playing with mobile phones" to soothe their children to sleep.

"Infants and young children have not yet developed their eyes, and early exposure to electronic products will lead to continuous spasm of the ciliary muscles, accelerate the growth of the eye axis, and cause irreversible myopia, while astigmatism is mostly related to congenital corneal morphological abnormalities, and excessive use of the eyes will exacerbate the progression of the disease." Jiang Ting, an optometrist and pediatric ophthalmologist at Dongguan Aier Eye Hospital, pointed out that the case exposed two hidden dangers: one is the parents' laissez-faire towards young children's eye behavior, and the other is the lack of awareness of early vision screening.

"If you don't intervene in time, it is easy to cause high myopia. Once highly myopia, it may induce serious complications such as retinopathy and glaucoma, and even adversely affect the visual development of the brain. Jiang Ting said.

In the end, Jiang Ting prescribed suitable glasses for the child for correction, and told parents to avoid letting their children use electronic products, take their children outdoors more, and recheck every three months.

"Even with genetic risk, scientific intervention can delay the progression of myopia, but leaving it unchecked will lead to irreversible damage." Jiang Ting emphasized that myopia can be prevented and controlled, but it is irreversible. Parents, as the "first responsible person" for their children's eye health, should establish a scientific awareness of eye health. First of all, it is necessary to fully understand the importance of myopia prevention and control, and move the prevention and control threshold forward to the infant stage; secondly, correctly guide children's eye behavior in daily life to avoid the formation of bad habits; Finally, take your child for regular eye examinations, and adjust the treatment plan in time according to the changes in refractive status, so as to achieve early screening and early treatment.

In recent years, in order to provide children with a "one-stop platform for the examination and diagnosis and treatment of children's eye diseases", so that "special diseases can be treated", Aier Ophthalmology has set up children's eye centers in many places across the country, focusing on the characteristics of children's eye diseases, and has opened special outpatient clinics for the prevention and control of adolescent myopia, pediatric strabismus amblyopia, congenital hereditary eye diseases, pediatric cataracts, childhood glaucoma, children's fundus diseases, children's eye tumors, children's eye trauma, nystagmus and children's oculoplastic surgery.

With the establishment of the Group's pediatric eye centers in major regions, it will bring together more global high-quality ophthalmic medical talents and scientific research and innovation forces, and develop medical education and research in a coordinated manner, so as to provide patients with pediatric eye diseases with all-round care and support from prevention to diagnosis and treatment, and meet the personalized and diversified diagnosis and treatment needs. (Lin Yuzhen)

Source: Al Ophthalmology