Myopia control or myopia management is the area of children’s eye care dedicated to slowing down childhood myopia progression. Myopia in children may also be called being short-sighted or near-sighted. It involves your child’s eye care professional prescribing special types of spectacle lenses or glasses, contact lens or low concentration atropine eye drops to slow down worsening of their vision. We will also talk to you about your child’s visual environment – how much time they spend on screens and reading, and how much time they spend outdoors.
Myopia control and myopia management is important because it’s preferable to have lower numbers in a prescription, thinner glasses, and to avoid frequent changes in glasses prescriptions. Generally, once a child becomes myopic (or short-sighted, causing blurred distance vision) it tends to progress, or get worse, every few to several months. The younger a child becomes myopic, the faster they tend to progress, leading to higher levels of myopia. This means we should start a myopia control consultation as early as possible. We at Infiniti Vision Shop will be happy to tell you more on this. For an appointment, please do click here.
