In 2012 an article in The Lancet medical journal linked rising rates of nearsightedness in children to lack of time spent outdoors. The article, which focuses on children in East Asia, notes that as children have spent more time indoors reading, studying, working on computers, and playing video games, their rates of myopia have skyrocketed. ...
If you or your husband is extremely near-sighted or far-sighted, the chances are very high that your child will be too. The child will probably need glasses by the time he or she is in middle school. The child may not know that he has vision problems since he probably don’t know the difference between ...
The eye and the sense of sight is perhaps the most specialized and highly developed sensory part of the body’s nervous system. The eye itself and the nerve pathways that carry the sensations back to the brain are all subject to conditions that may affect vision adversely. Causes Most severe forms of visual disturbance tend ...
Optometry comes from the Greek word that means two things. Opto means vision or sight, and metry means to measure. It is the practice of eye care which means how well a person can see, and whether or not they need eyeglasses. Today, most optometrists are allowed to prescribe medications for various eye diseases. Nowadays, ...
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