Re: Advice for 9-year old newly in glasses.


"Ed" <edutital100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

I was wondering if we should tell him to take them off when doing
closeup work because that would mean he would need to focus a bit
harder to "counteract" the effects of a minus lens? Or should he
leave them on all the time, which would make him accustomed to wearing
them (and lessen the chance of losing them). The doc never made this
clear.

There is no evidence that wearing them causes any problem.

Focusing "a bit harder" means "just like everybody else."

There are many outside the eye professions, and even a few degreed
professionals, who believe that the extra focusing effort stimulates more
nearsightedness. But in 100 years no one has been able to publish a study
showing a group wearing glasses got more nearsighted than a group who
didn't. Instead, the published comparisons show no difference between those
who wear glasses full-time and those who remove them for near work.

-MT, OD


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