These 4 types of people are not suitable for myopia surgery and may regret it if they do!

Nowadays, whether we are browsing Weibo, WeChat, or watching live broadcasts, we often see celebrities recommending myopia surgery. Myopia surgery is convenient and safe, so it is indeed worth a lot of people's support. However, myopia surgery is not something that every myopic person can do, so everyone should pay more attention to it when paying attention to surgery.

These 4 types of people are not suitable for myopia surgery

Under 18 years old, myopia is not stable

Zhang Qingsong, member of the Refractive Subcommittee of the Ophthalmology Committee of the China Association of Non-public Medical Institutions and deputy chief physician of the refractive department of the Aier Eye Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University (Aier Eye Hospital Group Hubei General Hospital), said: Generally speaking, we recommend that minors under the age of 18 do not undergo myopia surgery. This is because the bodies of minors are still growing and developing, and their vision may not be stable. In this case, if they undergo myopia surgery, it is possible that after the surgery corrects the existing vision, new myopia will increase due to normal growth and development of the body. This is the same as when we were young, we needed to replace our myopia glasses with higher degrees every once in a while.

Of course, minors are not an absolute contraindication for myopia surgery, but only a relative contraindication. If myopia surgery is needed for some special circumstances, such as college entrance examination, career choice, high refractive anisometropia, some corneal diseases that require laser treatment, etc., you can consider surgery after fully communicating with the doctor and on the basis of full understanding of the patient and family members.

Eye diseases that are not suitable for myopia surgery

There are some eye diseases that are also absolute contraindications for myopia surgery, such as keratoconus or other types of corneal ectasia, severe dry eyes, active eye lesions or infections, severe ocular adnexal lesions, uncontrolled glaucoma, cataracts that affect vision, etc.

In addition, myopic patients whose corneal thickness does not meet the requirements are not suitable for laser myopia surgery. They can check whether they can choose ICL lens implantation to correct their vision. People with severe fundus diseases are also not suitable for ICL lens implantation.

Physical or psychological symptoms that may indicate a poor candidate for myopia surgery

The patient has systemic connective tissue diseases or autoimmune diseases, severe psychological or psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety and depression, or suffers from diseases that make it difficult to cooperate with examinations and surgery, such as epilepsy, hysteria, etc.

Pregnant and lactating women