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


"Ed" <edutital100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
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Now my son is 9. For the past 3 years, he's spent an awful lot of
time in front of a computer and his Gameboy, and he spends a lot of
time reading and doing closeup work. I was concerned that he might be
straining his vision,

When doing close up work one must use muscles TO DEFORM the eye balls. So
they can be permanently deformed.

and since it had been 7 years since his last
vision workup, my wife and I scheduled an appointment with an
opthamologist (his new opthamologist is his old opthamologist's
brother).

Is the brother also short-seeing?


The doc said for my son to wear his glasses all the time in the
classroom and at home when watching TV, or riding his bike and other
outdoor activities.

In other words when it is necessary.

He also told me that he could keep them on for
closeup work, but wasn't necessary. He said my son's eyes would focus
accomodate just fine with or without the minus lenses.

With the minus lenses one must use the muscles stronger and in the result
the permanet deformation may be enlarged.

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.

Neil Brooks wrote: "You DO know -- don't you, Otis -- that in the USAF
studies,

- Some myopes got more myopic over time;

- Some got LESS myopic over time;

- Some stayed the same.

You DO know that, don't you, Otis??"

Such small myopia can be probably repaired with Bates method.
S*


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