Causes of MYOPIA You need to know EARLIER

When your eyes are uncomfortable……

Do these phenomena happen to you or your body?      

Eyesight is getting worse and the things far away can’t be seen clearly.

When using computer for a long while, your eyes start to feel fatigued and tired.

Recently, many children’s vision start to worsen and this has become a prominent topic of concern.

However, apart from the severe symptoms, most people perceive that there is nothing much to do with their worsen eyesight and continue to live their lives from day to day. Some even think that their myopia is genetic.

Moreover, when it comes to the treatments, especially the eye surgery, people even try to move away from them because of surgical fear. However, if you ignore eye discomfort, the worsening symptoms will intensify, thereby affecting your life.

When myopia or presbyopia are aggravated, everything in your sight will not be clear and is sometimes blurry. For example, you can’t see the distant objects and/or near objects, words in the books and magazines are indistinct. In this way, it will cause a bad impact at the work or in your living. Nonetheless, excessive use of computers causes dryness in eyes, deteriorating vision and sometimes, the eyes will also feel severe pain.

Additionally, eye discomfort usually lead to shoulder stiffness or headache, dizziness, making you uncomfortable. In fact, in accordance to a Chinese doctor when interviewed, he said, “Because of eye irritation, many patients came to me for treatment and I diagnosed shoulder stiffness and other symptoms of physical discomfort with them.

Eye discomfort, in fact, is a relatively serious problem. Also, it can be very troublesome when it comes to solutions.

Some may question:

“To ameliorate this problem, is there any easy and quick ways?”

“Stop wearing contact lens and glasses, will my eyesight recover?”

For these questions, some might have already undergone some eye treatments. Assume that all these ways are not working, should we consider and think of the fundamental problems that make our eyesight worse? Below are two main factors of cause.

Developmental factor

 Newborn infants, the eye diameter is only about 2/3 of adults’ which is hyperopia. But with age, ocular axial lengths start to gradually lengthen. To about 15 years old, their eyes are basically the same as adults’ which are 24 mm long in diameter. If overgrown, ocular axial lengths become too long, forming myopia. This is called, “simple myopia” which happens more in the beginning of school age. Its degree of myopia are generally lower than 6 diopters (600 degrees) and at 20-year-old, its development ceases. If being in childhood, it progressed very quickly, at the age of 15 to 20, it will progress more quickly and eventually in the future, it will be slowing down. Such myopia is often higher than 6 diopters, up to 20 or 30 diopter (2000 to 3000 degrees). This myopia is called severe myopia, also known as pathological myopia. Such myopia will be accentuated when reaching old age and vision will also gradually diminish that glasses will never be helpful in seeing things anymore. Finally, eyes will become blind. Myopia is rarely born. Very few people are born with myopia and congenital myopia seldom has degenerative diseases.

External causes

1. Those working in front of the computer or electronic devices will get myopia more often.

2. Environmental pollution, especially air pollution has a considerable impact on the poor eye sight. Because corneal permeability, it is constantly exchanging gas with the gas outside world while 80% of the metabolism of oxygen comes from the air. When the air is polluted, hazardous and harmful substances are also bound to the pathway into the cornea during the gas exchange. After a long stretch of time, doubtless, it will affect the eyesight and this is especially so for the infants and adolescence. They may not pay attention to exercise and nutrition, and stick to a comprehensive and reasonable diet, leading them to be myopic. In addition, imperatively, not taking care of eye health, looking at close things after a prolonged period of time, the formation of myopia will occur very soon. Also, it is very terrible when pseudomyopia does not attract attention of people. When people continue using myopic eyes to look excessively, myopia retinas receive long-term external reflection and oculomotor commands extraocular muscles to sustain muscular diastole, mechanically pressuring scleral tissue in the extraocular muscles in long-term. The ball walls taper elongate expansion and decrease their flexibility. Annular ciliary muscle fibers remain tense and their resilience will reduce, preventing themselves from relaxation.