As children are about to embark on the much-anticipated winter holidays, they are indulging in electronic devices every day. Parents think that this is a period of relaxation for their eyesight, but the opposite is true. Holidays are a big slide for eyesight, and when school starts, you may have an extra pair of glasses at home.
During this winter holiday, parents should do these four things correctly to delay the onset of myopia and slow down its progression.
Spending more time with your children during holidays
Firstly, since children often lack a sense of time, parents should agree with them to limit screen time by episodes rather than minutes when using electronic devices.
Secondly, parents should ensure their children sit near a window in a well-lit area and follow the 20-20-20 rule.
This means that for every 20 minutes that a child spends watching an electronic screen, he or she should look out the window or at least 20 feet (about 6 meters) away for at least 20 seconds.
To achieve this, parents can use apps with management interfaces to better plan and monitor their children's screen time. Of course, adults should also control the amount of time they spend playing with mobile phones and tablets in front of their children and set a good example.
Doing more outdoor activities
Studies have shown that an increase of one hour of outdoor activity per week in children and adolescents can reduce the incidence of myopia by 2.7 percent.
But the key to outdoor activity isn't exercise, it's letting your eyes feel the light. So taking your child for a walk or chatting in the sunshine is a form of outdoor activity.
Light causes pupils to constrict and increases the depth of field, which reduces peripheral retinal blur and helps prevent myopia.
There is also a study on the ‘dopamine hypothesis’ which postulates that sufficient light stimulates the release of dopamine in the retina. Dopamine is now recognized as a substance that prevents the growth of the eye axis, thus slowing down the progression of myopia.
Therefore, parents should take advantage of the holiday season to bring their children to do more outdoor activities.
Early Eye Axis Assessment
In addition to routine optometry, it is important to check the length of the eye axis. This is because the myopia that most people experience is axial myopia brought about by the growth of the eye axis.
Like height, the axial length of the eye develops slowly with age; the younger you are, the faster it grows until reaching adulthood, when it stabilizes.
Therefore, during the winter holidays, parents can take their children to hospitals and optometric centers with professional eye axis measurements, where professional doctors or optometrists will conduct an eye axis examination and keep a continuous record of the eye axes and other visual acuity data.
For children who already have myopia, vision screening should be done every 3 months, while for children who are not yet myopic, vision screening is recommended every 3 to 6 months.
For children who are not yet myopic, vision screening is recommended every 3 to 6 months.
If rapid axial growth is detected during the examination, it means that the child is in the process of developing myopia at a faster rate, and even if there is no change in myopia for a short period of time, further growth may occur later in the course of the examination.
If your child's myopia continues to increase even after wearing normal lenses, consider changing to functional lenses with myopia management, so that correction and myopia management can work together to ‘catch up’ during the winter holidays.
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Post time: Jan-13-2025