Cold air is coming, some parents found that their children's myopia has grown again, just a few months after the prescription of glasses and said that it is difficult to see the blackboard, this myopia deepened?
Several studies have shown that fall and winter are the seasons of high myopia incidence and also the seasons when myopia tends to deepen.
The Waburn Vision Institute (DonovanL, 2012), in a study of 85 Chinese children aged 6-12 years, found that myopic progression was -0.31+0.25 D, -0.40±0.27 D, -0.53±0.29 D, and -0.42±0.20 D in the summer, fall, winter, and spring, respectively; the average growth of ocular axis was 0.17±0.10 mm in the summer, 0.24±0.09 mm in the fall, and 0.15±0.08 mm in the spring.The mean increase in ocular axes was 0.24±0.09 mm in the winter, and 0.15±0.08 mm in the spring. 0.10 mm in summer, -0.24 ± 0.09 mm in fall, -0.24 ± 0.09 mm in winter, and -0.15 ± 0.08 mm in spring; myopic progression in summer was approximately 60% of that in winter, and axial growth was also significantly slower in summer.
Why are you more likely to be nearsighted in winter than in summer?
Summer is a time of comfortable temperatures, long hours of sunlight, and easy clothing, and we all enjoy outdoor activities. Sunlight contains eye health protection factors, which can maintain the balance of substances in our eyes, which is good for controlling the progress of myopia.
In the fall and winter, when the sunlight is short and the temperature is low, people are not willing to go out because they have to wear bulky clothes and have difficulty moving around, and playing with cell phones at home provides the conditions for the accelerated development of myopia in the winter.
How to scientifically prevent and control myopia in fall and winter?
Regular eye health check-ups
Many parents focus their autumn and winter preventive efforts on ‘colds and flu’ and tend to neglect their children's myopia. During the myopia-prone season, more attention should be paid to eye exams to focus on the growth of the eye axes. Once children and adolescents are found to have abnormal vision, measures should be taken to intervene as soon as possible.
Relax your eyes as much as possible
Children should take advantage of opportunities to see the sun during the day, and get out of the classroom and move around in the corridors and playgrounds during school hours. Children who are afraid of the cold can also try to relax their eyes by looking out of the window and enjoying the greenery on the roadside.
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Fall and winter are “crisis times” for susceptible people, not only to pay attention to the prevention of some respiratory diseases but also to pay attention to the development of myopia in children to avoid myopia in the fall and winter sneak up as soon as possible to take measures to intervene in the event that children and adolescents are found to have abnormal vision.
Post time: Oct-29-2024