In recent years, the incidence of myopia among children and adolescents has become higher and higher. More and more children wearing glasses at a young age appear in everyone's vision.
On the morning of April 28, the National Health Commission released the results of the 2018 adolescent myopia survey, which made everyone more worried about the incidence of myopia among children and adolescents in China.
In recent years, the incidence of myopia among children and adolescents has become higher and higher. More and more children wearing glasses at a young age appear in everyone's vision. On the morning of April 28, the National Health Commission released the results of the 2018 adolescent myopia survey, which made everyone more worried about the incidence of myopia among children and adolescents in China. In addition, low-age myopia is more prominent. In primary school and junior middle school, the myopia rate increases rapidly with the increase of grade.
Primary school increased from 15.7% in Grade 1 to 59% in Grade 6; Junior middle school increased from 64.9% in grade one to 77% in grade three. Primary school and junior high school are the key stages of myopia prevention and control in China. High myopia, that is, the degree of myopia is higher than 600 degrees, accounting for 21.9% of the total number of myopia. High myopia is one of the blinding eye diseases, which must be paid great attention to!
2. Main hazard factors
In addition, according to the monitoring, the risk factors related to myopia in Chinese students are widespread. 67% of students spend less than 2 hours outdoors every day, 29% less than 1 hour, and 73% of students do not sleep up to the standard every day. Bad eye behaviors such as long after-school homework time and continuous close eye use, unscientific use of electronic products and so on are common. The above are the important factors that lead to the high myopia rate of children and adolescents in China.
The theme of this conference is to focus on the prevention and control of children's myopia and every parent of the society. However, children's myopia is rising rapidly. What should parents do? Scientific prevention and control of myopia, the following three aspects are very, very important! Mom and Dad, please put it away!
3. How to protect children's eyesight?
Establish refractive development files for children. It is recommended to establish eye health files before the child's school age. Children's eyes are examined every year or half a year, and the biological parameters and refractive status of the eyes of all ages are recorded one by one until the child is 18 years old. When a child shows signs of myopia, ophthalmologists should find it in time. This is the best opportunity to solve myopia. In the early stage of myopia, the degree increase can be controlled by means of OK mirror and so on. In other words, the establishment of eye health records can continuously monitor the child's eye health status, which is a very important link in the whole myopia prevention and control!
Avoid "urgent and disorderly medical treatment". Parents will have all kinds of doubts about children's myopia. However, we should pay attention to the problem of myopia, but we should not treat it at will because of temporary impatience and credulity to some vision correction methods on the market, which may increase the degree of children faster.
We should always remember that vision can not be cured, but can only be corrected scientifically. We should take our children to find a professional ophthalmologist, follow the doctor's guidance, and find prevention and control methods suitable for our children step by step according to the doctor's suggestions, so as to control myopia.
Prevent myopia and pay attention to the details of life. Children's myopia is often related to many life factors.
Environmental factors, eye hygiene, light, family genetics, and even the environment of the city where you live and the size of the room will affect the occurrence of myopia to varying degrees. Therefore, paying attention to the details of life is to prevent and control myopia for children.
Detail 1: pay attention to reading and writing posture
Remind children to "punch one foot one inch" and keep their eyes 33cm ~ 40cm away from the book.
Detail 2: life needs "light", and eyes are no exception
In order to prevent myopia, children need enough light when reading and writing. Under the intensity acceptable to the child's eyes, the closer the light is to nature, the better it is to the eyes. If the desk lamp at home is not bright enough, you should turn on another headlamp as an auxiliary.
Detail 3: follow the "20-20-20" guideline
When children use their eyes at close range, parents should pay attention to remind their children: every 20 minutes of using their eyes at close range, overlooking 20 meters away and lasting for 20 seconds, which can relieve neck pain, headache and muscle pain caused by a single posture for a long time. Blink 20 times, the lacrimal glands are under pressure and shed tears to alleviate dry eyes. Looking far helps to relax the eyes and relieve visual fatigue.
Detail 4: outdoor sports cannot be less
A large number of clinical studies have shown that children who reduce eye load and increase outdoor activities for more than 2 hours can significantly reduce the incidence of myopia incidence rate. Taking care of children's eyes is the common responsibility of parents, schools and even the whole society. It is hoped that 53.6% of children and adolescents' myopia rate is a historical peak. With the joint efforts of the whole society, the myopia rate in the future will gradually decline and give children a clear new world.