Your child’s eyesight may well depend on what you do now…
Short Sight (Myopia) often starts to appear in childhood, especially at puberty when children become unable to read the board in the classroom at school.
Once myopia starts to develop in children, a significant proportion will undergo an increasing deterioration in the prescription over time, until their sight without glasses is very blurred. The final level is hard to predict, but is known to be worse if one or both parents are short sighted.
Why control Myopia progression?
Many studies show that special contact lenses, both soft (MiSight) and hard (Ortho-K) can actually reduce the progression of short-sight, reducing the likelihood of associated problems in adulthood.
The effect is not guaranteed, as results vary for individual children, but it has never been shown to make children more short-sighted. An additional benefit of this, is that spectacles don’t have to be changed as a child’s myopia worsens.
We are now able to offer an affordable active treatment for myopia management, with these specialist contact lenses to help stop it in it’s tracks.
Introducing another option of myopia management using spectacles – MiYOSMART
MiYOSMART is a new non invasive myopia management lens which is both safe and convenient for the patient – just like ordinary spectacle lenses.
The lenses provide vision correction so the wearer will experience comfortable vision in daily wear. All this whilst working to reduce the progression of myopia. They are easy to adapt to and are suitable for full time daily wear for a wide range of activities.
Work out the risk to your child:
If you would like to ascertain the risk to your child of developing myopia, view this online calculator by clicking the button below:
For more information contact us about booking an appointment to discuss the options available for your child.