Questions & Answers. You have questions. And Jake has answers, especially if they haven’t been covered in one of the other sections of the blog / free guides.
Many of the topics here originate from your e-mails, or from Quora, or threads in our Facebook group, or even YouTube comments on occasion. Natural myopia control is a wide ranging and complex subject, and this might be the section to find answers to some of your questions. Browse and discover!
Eye Health Alert: These Antibiotics Cause 500x Higher Retinal Detachment Risk
A whole class of antibiotics, often prescribed for respiratory and urinary tract infections, have been found to cause a 500x risk increase of retinal detachment. The University of B.C. raised alarms about this problem a staggering four years ago, in 2012, and it has taken Health Canada until 2016 to finally require a warning label to be added to the entire class of Fluoroquinolones which create this serious risk of permanent blindness.22 incidents of retinal detachment associated with the consumption of [...]
LASIK: Should Be An Epic Scandal
From Straigtstimes Singapore: Mr A was an unusual patient. I had just completed an operation and was walking into my clinic when a boyish-looking man dressed in office attire stood up and followed me from the lift lobby into my consultation room. There was a look of trepidation on his face and his brows were knitted with worry. Even before I could sit down, he started telling me there was a shadow in his field of vision that would not [...]
Cruel, Cruel Winter
Perhaps you've noticed that there haven't been a whole lot of coherent words from me in the last few days, here on the blog.I left sunny, warm Bangkok with the slightest bit of a bug of some kind.Whatever the tiny bug was, it sure likes Japan. And the cold. And me, being a dumba** as usual, insisting on spending entire days outdoors, despite howling winds and low single digit temperatures. My logic for not even buying a hat? I'd only [...]
Cycloplegic Refractions & Avoiding Early Myopia
"A cycloplegic refraction is performed as a part of a laser visual correction,or LASIK, consultation to determine the absolute refractive error before before proceeding with laser eye surgery." A cycloplegic refraction is an eye test performed by an optometrist after the instillation of drops which will temporarily paralyse the ciliary muscle, preventing the eye from accommodating and constantly changing prescription. This prevents over-prescription in these cases, ie. too much minus in a prescription, giving a more accurate result.Under normal conditions, an experienced [...]
Why do Singaporean kids have eye sight problems that are 3-4x the world average?
This question, recently on Quora. Here's my response:I can speak with some authority on this topic, having reversed my own -5.00 diopters of myopia. I also have thousands of students working on controlling their own myopia, including a number of Sinagporeans who successfully stopped their myopia progression and even reversed it (glad to introduce you, if you like for some first hand insights). It may sound far fetched at first, but if you're willing to look at science and ignore retail [...]
Eureka!
Very excited this morning. Because yesterday, I found it! Yes, I found active focus! And it wasn't actually that difficult. I expected to be that one person that can't find it. I must have read the session on it about 10 times, until it sank in, but that's ok, it's a totally new concept for me too. We are after all making our eyes, and those poor ciliary muscles, work in a way they have never worked before. But it [...]