Here’s Dodgy-Town. A whole category on questionable myopia therapies, ideas, snake oil sales, and various shortsighted treatments that warrant a closer look (and probably some derision by a certain indisputably wise and considerate eye guru).
Whether it’s Atropine drops (poison!) being advocated by “doctors” for your kid’s eyes, or Ortho-K to temporarily flatten (and possibly permanently damage) your cornea, or using subconscious sales tricks to get you to buy glasses, this category has it all. You’ll see it all, you’ll marvel and wonder how you may have missed out on all the ways you could be getting screwed. Enjoy!
Do Not Do These Things To Your Eyes
Resist the temptation to try some random 'natural' cure for eye issues. Please. The odds that you'll experience anything in the range from just wasting your time to seriously messing up your eyes, are very high. Much higher than you actually finding some "cure", some "easy natural remedy". In fact whenever you see any of what I show you in this article, just click away, and forget all about it. Besides what modern optometry propagates of course, most everything else [...]
Jaanus’ Optometrist: “Astigmatism Correction Is For Rare, Serious Cases”
Astigmatism correction. Also heads up, huge rant post. If you know your darling eye guru at all by now, you know that he easily gets triggered. Triggered by various words, including 'eye exercises', 'eye yoga', 'palming' (pretend-Bates Internet thing, don't ask), 'genetic myopia', and of course, astigmatism. You know who's got astigmatism? People. People, not including you. At least if you rule out monkey-lens-seller induced astigmatism, the kind you didn't used to have before you started wearing glasses. [...]
Ophthalmology Science: “Glasses Cause Myopia.”
Let's do this again, kittehs. For the sake of repetition. Glasses. Cause. Myopia. Glasses. Cause. Myopia. Glasses ... That much isn't a debate. Yes, you could argue that Jake is nuts, you could argue that having too much time and money turned Jakey into a raving lunatic, you could argue that proclaiming yourself an eye guru is a clear sign of mental instability. Jake = Totally unstable, mentally. But that part only concerns how we address stopping and reversing myopia. That part yes, [...]
The Ortho-K Nightmare (Oops, Side Effect: Permanent Corneal Scarring)
Ortho-K. *jedi hand wave* Ortho-K. That's the magic word(s) you need to whisper conspiratorially, for anyone in the mainstream to acknowledge the possibility of myopia control. If they're not selling ortho-k (side effects glossed over) then myopia is an incurable genetic medical condition. If they are selling ortho-k then well, you can spend a few thousand dollars on that option (per year, darling, of course) and myopia control is suddenly an option. Et voila, mes cheres kittehs. C'est le fric [...]
Bates Method Eye Exercises
Hey, look. It's time for a Bates Method (and eye exercises) rant. Or is it? I should put a standard disclaimer on all Bates Method posts. I'm not anti-Bates Method at all. In fact, if optometry back in those old-timey, we-don't-know-much-about-biology times would have gone the Bates direction, I'd say we wouldn't have a myopia problem today. At all. Millions of people would be having other jobs, besides in optometry and lens making, and LASIK surgery selling, and retinal [...]
Two Very Different Optometrists (And A Child’s Eyesight In The Balance)
Do you care about your child's eyesight? Do you think that all optometrists are going to give you good advice? Do you worry that by looking at the size and retail location of their 'practice', there could potentially be a profit motive, a conflict of interest (of money over vision science) even? Before we go there, let's cover some important facts: First, your darling eye guru is some weirdo you found on the Internet. Don't go trust anybody you [...]