Myopia prevention and control

In recent years, the myopia rate among children and adolescents in China is high and rising, and the age of myopia is low and the severity is becoming more and more serious, which seriously affects the health of children and adolescents, and has become a major public health problem troubling children and adolescents, families, schools and society.The myopia rate among Chinese children and adolescents reached 53.6 percent in 2018, according to a survey of myopia among Chinese children and adolescents released by the National Health Commission.So children teenagers myopia what does factor have?How should we scientifically prevent and control it?

When Professor Bai Ji talked about the pathogenic factors of youth myopia, he emphasized:

     1.Genetic factors - Myopia can be inherited, and yellow people have the highest incidence of myopia globally.Some myopia (some pathological myopia) has obvious genetic characteristics, and most myopia's heritability is manifested only in genetic predisposition (susceptibility).Under the same living and learning environment, susceptible people are more likely to suffer from myopia.If one parent is myopic, the incidence of myopia in the child increases, and both parents are myopic, the probability of myopia in the child increases significantly.

      2.Close use of eyes for a long time -- the human eye needs to be adjusted in order to see close objects. If the eyes are used for a long time, the eye movement parameters will be disturbed, thus causing myopia.

     3.The effect of outdoor exercise and sunshine time on myopia.

In view of the related factors, Professor Bai Ji talked about the prevention and control of myopia in teenagers:

      1. Develop good eye habits -- Parents should provide children with a good lighting environment, the light is best from the left front, and supervise the children to maintain the correct reading and writing posture (one fist, one foot, one inch). At the same time, every 30 minutes of reading, need to put down the book to look far away, a reasonable rest of the eyes.

      2. Develop a healthy lifestyle -- in terms of diet, parents should provide balanced nutrition for their children, do not be partial to food, and supplement more foods containing zinc and calcium.In life, children need to increase outdoor activities, ensure sufficient sunshine time, strengthen physical exercise, such as: playing table tennis.

      3. Regular specialist examination - children from the age of three or four should regularly go to professional ophthalmic institutions to do the corresponding examination, if found problems, need to go to a specialist hospital for a comprehensive eye examination, when necessary, the application of drugs mydilation optometry, early detection and early control.To the child that has suffered from myopia, should every half a year to ophthalmological outpatient department dilatation optometry, timely adjust glasses degree, delay myopia disease development.