Why does myopia worsen when teenagers wear glasses?

Many parents have heard of such a rumor before they bring their children to wear glasses: wearing glasses will cause the degree of myopia to become higher and higher, and eventually develop into a high degree of myopia. In fact, the act of wearing glasses does not cause the degree of myopia to deepen. So why do people have such a misunderstanding? This is mainly related to the following four reasons.

1. Fit the child with an inappropriate pair of glasses

Many optical shops now have the qualifications and hardware conditions for optometry and glasses, but there are still some fish-eyes and glasses. Using inaccurate optometry techniques or matching lenses with the wrong power will cause dizziness, nausea and other uncomfortable symptoms after wearing the processed glasses. Therefore, it is best to go to a medical institution for matching glasses.

2. Unreasonable eye use habits

In today's society, the frequency of eye use is the highest. Looking at the phone, playing on the computer, writing homework, or attending lectures are all places where you need to use your eyes. For young people, if you do not pay attention to develop good eye habits, it is easy to cause frequent visual fatigue, and even cause eye spasm or retinal detachment.

3. Take when wearing glasses

Some people think that you can take off your glasses when you don’t need to use your eyes. This is the best way to rest for your eyes. But in fact, when the glasses are taken off and worn, the adjustment of the visual function of the eyes will be in an unstable state, which will easily cause excess burden on the ciliary muscles and accelerate the upward development of myopia.

4. The child's own eye development is not normal

Some children have some developmental abnormalities in their eyes, and most of them are hereditary myopia. In patients with this type of myopia, whether they have glasses or not, the refractive power of the eyes will gradually deepen. For patients with this type of myopia, if you wear appropriate glasses and strengthen daily eye care at the same time, you can control the rapid development of myopia to a certain extent. However, it is best to go to the eye hospital in time with the parents for further understanding and control.