Explore how severe nearsightedness significantly raises the risk of eye diseases like MMD and what you can do to manage myopia effectively.

A recent study1 suggests that home confinement from COVID-19 restrictions may be related to an increase in nearsightedness in school-age children. Nearsightedness (also known as “Myopia”) is rapidly increasing worldwide. It’s predicted that by the year 2050 there will be 5 billion people with myopia (more than double today’s numbers). We know that, in addition to genetics, there are environmental factors that are now known to contribute to this change. Higher levels of myopia lead to more risk for vision loss due to eye disease.

The most common causes of vision problems in school-age children are refractive errors. These errors interfere with the eye’s ability to focus light on the retina resulting in conditions such as myopia or nearsightedness, hyperopia or farsightedness and astigmatism.

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If your child is myopic, he or she will have more problems seeing objects at a distance than up close. Myopia can be very unstable in a child, if diagnosed at a young age.