Shanghai Eye Hospital: How to prevent children's myopia?

In recent years, the problem of children's myopia has been growing. At the Shanghai Eye Hospital, we have thoroughly studied the preventive measures for children's myopia, hoping to help parents better protect their children's eyesight. This article will elaborate from four aspects.

Create a good learning environment

Children's myopia is closely related to the learning environment. Therefore, building a good learning environment is the primary task to prevent children's myopia. First of all, parents should provide suitable learning positions for their children to ensure bright light and avoid insufficient or too bright light. Secondly, parents should urge their children to sit correctly and keep a proper distance from books. In addition, children should be given certain outdoor activities every day to avoid staring at electronic devices for a long time.

The home learning environment includes not only the home learning area, but also the school classroom. Schools should establish good classroom lighting standards, and organize students to take appropriate physical exercises to avoid excessive screen use time. A reasonable learning environment will help reduce the incidence of myopia in children.

Check your eyesight regularly

Regular visual examination is very important for early detection and intervention of children's myopia. Shanghai Eye Hospital recommends that parents conduct a complete vision examination for their children every year, and pay attention to the signs of their children's vision changes at any time.

Vision examination can not only help to find myopia, but also can find other eye problems early. If children's vision is found to be declining, especially the degree of myopia is gradually increasing, parents should consult professional ophthalmologists in time to develop a reasonable treatment plan.

Control eye time

Long term eye use is one of the main reasons for children's myopia. In order to prevent myopia, parents need to help children reasonably control the time of eye use. First of all, children should be instructed to abide by the hygiene standards for using eyes. They should have a visual rest every once in a while to avoid staring at books or electronic screens for a long time. Secondly, parents should guide children to shift their attention and let them do other useful activities, such as outdoor sports, reading, etc., to reduce the burden of using eyes.

In addition, parents should guide their children to use electronic devices correctly and avoid using mobile phones and tablets for a long time. Controlling eye use time is one of the important measures to prevent myopia.

Reasonable diet and eye care

Reasonable diet and eye care can also effectively prevent children from myopia. A balanced diet helps to develop and protect the eyes. Parents should try to provide children with foods rich in vitamins A, C, E and zinc, such as fish, vegetables and fruits.

In addition, appropriate outdoor activities are also an important way of eye care. Ultraviolet rays in the sun can effectively prevent myopia. Therefore, parents should take their children to outdoor activities and ensure a certain amount of outdoor time every day.

summary

Preventing children's myopia is a long-term and arduous task, but as long as parents and schools work together and take scientific and effective preventive measures, their incidence can be reduced. Creating a good learning environment, carrying out visual inspection regularly, controlling the time of eye use, and reasonable diet and eye care are all important measures to prevent children from myopia. Shanghai Eye Hospital will always be committed to research on the prevention of children's myopia, to protect the healthy growth of children.