Once myopia is diagnosed, is it possible to recover?

With the rise of electronic products, more and more people are suffering from myopia, including teenagers and children. At present, myopia has been listed as one of the three major diseases in the world. When hearing that their children are myopic, many parents will be very anxious. Seeing the emergence of a variety of products that can treat myopia on the market, they will "seek medical treatment at random" and even seek help from folk remedies. Can myopia be cured?

1. True myopia is irreversible

In fact, from the principle of myopia. If your child has been diagnosed with myopia, then myopia is irreversible under the current medical technology conditions! Most children have axial myopia, that is, myopia characterized by the growth of the eye axis. Just like a person will not become shorter after growing taller, the eye axis will not shorten after growing longer. Therefore, once axial myopia caused by eye axis growth occurs, myopia cannot be cured. Knowing this knowledge, you will have "eagle eyes and golden eyes", and the false propaganda of curing myopia will be self-defeating.

2. Pseudomyopia can be restored

If the child has accommodative myopia (commonly known as "pseudomyopia" by the common people, for ease of understanding, we will continue to use the term "pseudomyopia" in the following explanation), it can be recovered. We can briefly understand the principle of pseudomyopia, and we will understand why pseudomyopia can be recovered. Our eyes adjust the size of the refractive power by thinning and thickening the small lens (lens) in the eye, so as to achieve the purpose of seeing clearly both far and near. When looking far, the ciliary muscle is relaxed, and the lens is relatively thin (small refractive power); when looking close, the ciliary muscle is tense, and it will make the lens convex (increased refractive power). Our ciliary muscle is like a spring. Long-term close-range use of the eye keeps the ciliary muscle in a state of continuous contraction and spasm and high tension. At this time, the elasticity of the spring will deteriorate, and it will continue to be in a state of contraction when looking close, and it cannot relax when looking far, which makes the eyes appear unclear at a distance and clear at close range. At this time, by relieving the continuous tension of the ciliary muscle, the ciliary muscle is relaxed, and the corresponding medication or changes in eye behavior can also relieve pseudomyopia. It should be noted that we cannot equate the reduction of pseudomyopia by relieving ciliary muscle spasm with true myopia, which can be treated and restored.

3. Myopia is preventable and controllable

Although true myopia cannot be cured under current medical technology, it is preventable and controllable. Through our efforts, we can delay the progression of myopia and the growth of axial length, reduce the possibility of developing high myopia, and avoid visual impairment.

First of all, we should know that we are responsible for our own health and we should protect our eyes. We should strengthen our health awareness, learn scientific knowledge about eye care from an early age, know what myopia is and how it occurs, and then take the initiative to pay attention to our eye health. We should develop scientific eye care habits from an early age and master the health knowledge of scientific eye care.

Secondly, you should learn to pay attention to your vision. You can cover your eyes alternately to check your vision. If you find that there is a significant change in the vision of one or both eyes, you should inform your parents and teachers in time and go to the eye hospital for examination as soon as possible. If the glasses cannot see clearly in the distance, you should also inform your parents in time and go to the hospital for treatment in time.