MYOPIA

Myopia or near sightedness is where distance objects appear blurry but clears for near objects. it is one of the most common type of refractive errors among young age groups, this occurs due to the eyeball being too long or the cornea having  irregular curvature leading to focal point of light falling in front of the retina. As we have  entered digital aged we are very much dependent to digital gadgets and  increased screen time, it is estimated that half of the world population will be  myopic till 2050… which is very much alarming to public as concerned to eye health because it is second main cause of blindness after cataract. So get regular eye check up.

As far there’s no any exact known cause for myopia or nearsighted but there are various risk factors for causing myopia like Genetic (if parents wearing glasses for nearsighted are more likely to cause nearsighted to their children) and  lifestyles like healthy eating habits, excess screentime or near works and  others. among these genetics is one of the  common risk factors and our lifestyles after we have entered into the digital age and depending on digital things.

Myopia Treatment : Nearsightedness

1Eyeglasses and contact lenses :these form of treatment are most common and easy ways to correct myopia. power lens or contact lenses having minus(-) power helps you to correct your vision to see clearly.

Myopia Control / Myopia progression

Over the time as you grow up you need to change prescription according to change in power/increase in power of your eyes until age of 20 due to increase in size of eyeball as human grows up so there is more likely to increse in power for nearsightedness  patients.

The first step to control power from increasing is to encourage your child for outdoor time and limited screen time. balancing outdoor and indoor time will be beneficial for child’s eye health and well being. so encourage your child for outdoor tasks to prevent from increasing nearsighted power.

Eyedrops medicine (Atropine eyedrop) : some of the doctors precribed atropine eyedrop at low dose to prevent from progressing myopia but there are side effects of these atropine drops like blurring vision at near, difficulty at daytime sunlight, some may feel redness and itchiness around and inside eyes.

Power lenses /contact lenses

There are special types of lenses to control myopia by using peripheral defocusing techniques. these lenses are useful for childrens of 6 to14 years of age having progressive myopia (change/increase in power after every routine check ups at every 3 months or 6months.

myopia control prescription lens have different areas of focus having multiple circles inside of each other. The centre of the lens corrects blurry vision and clear at distance while outer parts of lens blurr peripheral/side vision. study shows 
blurring side vision slowdown eye growth and control nearsighted or myopia and so this lens seems benificial to one whi have progression/increasing nearsightedness or myopia.

There are various lens campanies in the market providing myopia control lenses nowdays. we practice myopia control lens so you can contact us for more information about myopia control prescription lenses.