Child Myopia. This is one that gets Jake upset on a regular basis. Children (in most cases) don’t need glasses! What they need is educated parents who understand eye strain, ciliary muscle spasm, the impact of lots of close-up reading time, of staring at smart phones and computer screens.
An ounce of prevention, as they say. Read carefully through this section for lots of tips about preventing and reversing child myopia, find parents who had success banishing their child’s myopia, get hope an motivation to keep your own children’s eyes healthy!
Reward System & Log: Protecting Your Child’s Eyes From Myopia
What I possibly like most about this venue of the Web, is the sharing aspect. Whereas before anything communicated would only be between me and the client in my office, you can now see a lot of interactions, advice, questions, and support via the forum. And sometimes we get great context, like Nate E's recent post: It’s been about 1 month, so I thought I’d give a quick update on my son. We’ve been pushing focus every day. But I [...]
Preventing & Reversing Child Myopia: Practical Considerations
Nate writes in the forum:I need some help with my 9 year old son. He has been complaining about not being able to see the chalkboard in school for about 6 months. I initially had him tested, and he tested at -1 diopter. I tried to teach him about taking breaks, good distance when reading, good habits, etc-I think he did some of them. I also tried to teach him to “pull focus” in the distance. For the last month, [...]
3 Meter & 6 Meter Snellen Alternative Eye Charts
A kind participant has sent over two child eye charts that should do nicely for easy printing at home. They are set up to print on A4 sized paper, one for 3 meter distance, and the other for 6 meters (the latter taking two pages to print). Print shops usually offer inexpensive laminating as well, making it easy to get good looking and durable eye charts for a few cents. We can get more of these to help keep variety [...]
Child Myopia: Prescription Realities
Today is busier than usual, and I hadn't planned on taking time for a new article here in the blog. But then while answering forum questions, something came up that I want to share with you, before it gets lost in the to-do list of the day. This topic, a short comment about child myopia prescriptions: There is an interesting round of posts by Aparna in the forum, about Kedar, her young son and his myopia: Nov 2012 (optometrist): -4.5 RE [...]
Zaifang: Keeping Your Teens Eyes Healthy
From the forum:Okay, right now it’s a bit more than 30 days (thanks to some off days), and we have had some off days, but some of his progress has been pretty great. Here are his measurements from day 1:Left Eye 21cm -4.75 Worst 20/400 Best 20/100Right Eye 21cm -4.75 Worst 20/400 Best 20/100Combined 22cm -4.50 Worst 20/300 Best 20/70 (barely)-2.00 42cm -2.75 Worst 20/200 Best 20/60 (barely)-4.00 ??cm -0.75? Worst 20/40 Best 20/30Then now:Left Eye 24.5cm -4.00 Worst 20/250 Best [...]
Khyati: Myopic Child – A Parents Story
When I started the Web version of our myopia rehabilitation program, I decided not to use any of our client success stories from the local office practice.Since the Web requires more engagement on your part, is more challenging as you are working with a screen instead of a practitioner, it seemed disingenuous to use office client successes to substantiate the Web program. Fortunately though, as more people are finding this online course, positive feedback is beginning to accumulate.My favorite may [...]