Do I need to wear glasses if I have monocular myopia?

The physical health of students is a concern for teachers and parents. However, the decline in vision makes it difficult for parents and teachers to prevent it. Children want to improve their academic performance, so they spend long hours facing books and doing homework. Sometimes you feel tired from studying but don’t want to take a rest. What should you do? Some students chose to lie on their desks and read with their faces turned sideways. Looking sideways at the blackboard in class. Over time, this led to a problem. That means one eye is nearsighted. This phenomenon is not happening to your two children. What’s serious is that the two glasses have different degrees, but both require wearing myopia glasses. Some children are myopic in one eye. Do I need to wear glasses for myopia in this case?

The answer is glasses.

01 Eyes get tired easily

Refractive error causes a large difference in the degree of vision between the two eyes, which can easily lead to consequences such as visual fatigue, dry eyes, tearing, headache, nausea, dizziness, etc. There may also be deviations in judging distances and angles, which can easily endanger one's safety when walking or driving.

02The vision of the “poor eye” declines faster

There is a principle when using eyes - "use it or lose it", which means that the good eye should be used frequently, and the bad eye should be gradually disused. In this way, the eye with poor vision will experience a phenomenon of myopia increasing rapidly and vision decreasing rapidly.

03 Can cause monocular amblyopia

When a child's two eyes have refractive differences, the eye with a smaller refractive power can see things more clearly, while the eye with a larger refractive power cannot see things clearly, and the brain cannot merge the two images of different clarity into one. At this time, the brain will command the eye with smaller refractive power to work and inhibit the eye with larger refractive power from working. Over time, the eye with a larger refractive power will develop into amblyopia.

04 Can cause monocular exotropia

As mentioned above, when a child's two eyes have anisometropia, the visual development of the eye with poorer vision will also be inhibited. If it is not effectively treated, the eye with poorer vision may develop into exotropia over time.

In daily life, do not tilt your head when looking at close objects. The object should be placed in front of both eyes and looked at by both eyes at the same time. Habitual side sleeping and incorrect pen-holding posture may lead to varying degrees of anisometropia, which need to be corrected in time. In addition, appropriate supplementation of vitamin A and lutein can help relieve visual fatigue and protect the eyes.