Hi, my name is Shanna and I wanted to share my myopia story for Myopia Awareness Week.
Continuing from Part 1, this blog will focus on comparing Ortho K to MiSight soft contact lenses for myopia control. Both are optical treatments that I routinely prescribe for children with myopia in my clinic.
Perfect eyes with zero prescription. Couldn’t be better, yeah?
While this may be so for adults, the same doesn’t necessarily hold true with children’s eyes.
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As I am writing this, I am seated across a kid with super thick glasses; our flight got delayed…
There is a lot of unfortunate information out there in internet-land, telling the…
Normally, a child is born with little tiny eyes which grow a lot until age 3, then slowly until age 10–12, at…
Your child has been told by the optometrist that he or she needs glasses. To see better at school and in the far distance. It seems straightforward enough. Glasses will fix the problem, right?
Myopia (also known as short sight or near sight), is an increasingly common condition that affects children’s sight and has a long-lasting (often detrimental) effect for the rest of their lives.
Myopia (short-sightedness) has been recognised as one of the five leading causes of blindness and visual impairments in the world by the World Health Organisation. Research shows there are a number of options to slow myopia progression, and thus reduce the associated…