Entering July, it has also entered a period of high incidence of children's glasses. After a semester ends, many children cannot see clearly on the blackboard and their old glasses are no longer suitable, so their parents take them to to get glasses. Some parents simply take their children to a nearby optical shop to get a pair of glasses. In fact, this is not advisable for children to wear glasses. Teenagers and children with first-time myopia should choose an optometry institution in a regular hospital for a medical optometry examination to rule out pseudomyopia and then fit glasses that suit them. They should not blindly wear glasses. So what are the procedures for going to a regular eye hospital to get glasses?
When going to a hospital to get glasses, you usually go directly to the optometry center of the hospital's ophthalmology department
1 to register and conduct a preliminary examination of your eyes;
The scope of the initial examination includes: naked eye vision examination and computer optometry. Examination, intraocular pressure examination;
2. See a doctor. The optometrist will conduct a consultation and eye examination on the child, and then conduct triage.
For different children, further examination items are also different. Most children under the age of 14 need to undergo mydriasis . Mydriasis is also divided into fast dilation, medium dilation and slow dilation. It varies from person to person. Generally, if the eye position is normal, if you are under 6 years old, it is recommended to use Atropine to dilate your pupils; if you are 7-12 years old, it is recommended to use Saifeijie to dilate your pupils; if you are under 12 years old, use Midori to dilate your pupils depending on the situation. If there is an abnormal eye position, follow the doctor's diagnosis arrangements at this time.
3. After the mydriasis is completed, perform manual refraction examination.
In this step, the optometrist uses professional optometry equipment and the optometrist’s professional knowledge and clinical experience to conduct a manual optometry examination. This is very important. Optometrists at eye hospitals are more professional. Most of the staff at eye hospitals come from formal medical colleges. After years of study, they have acquired professional knowledge and skills, which makes them feel more confident when performing optometry.
Mydriasis is to understand the true refractive state of the patient's eyeballs, which requires the eyeballs to be inspected in a relaxed state. However, children's ciliary muscle adjustment ability is particularly strong. Without mydriasis, it is absolutely impossible to Some children's degrees vary greatly and cannot be accurately refracted. Therefore, during the refraction examination, it is necessary to dilate the pupils (medically known as cycloplegia), relax and adjust the ciliary muscles, and then conduct an examination to help doctors grasp the patient's accurate flexion. light status.
Since mydriasis and optometry is a medical behavior that can only be performed in the hospital, it is necessary to take the child to a professional hospital for mydriasis. Under normal circumstances, adults do not need to have their pupils dilated and can wear glasses after undergoing an optometry test.
4. Generally, if the recovery is fast, it will take 6-8 hours before you go to the hospital for an optometry examination; if it is moderate, it will take three days before you go to the hospital for an optometry examination; if it is slow, it will take a month before you go to the hospital for an optometry examination.
5. Wear glasses
Choose appropriate lenses and frames based on the final optometry documents, or conduct orthokeratology lens inspection and wear glasses.
6.
frame glasses : Generally, conventional lenses can be obtained in one or two days; customized lenses can be obtained in about a week;
orthokeratology lenses: it can be obtained in about one month.
After these fitting procedures, a pair of glasses was born!
Eye experts said: There are two golden periods for children’s vision development: the first is 3-5 years old, and the second is 12-15 years old. These two stages are also called the rapid stages of human eye development. Children's myopia is often caused by parents not paying attention to the details of their children's lives during these two "golden periods", which affects the children's eyes and leads to myopia. Therefore, parents are reminded to pay more attention to their children's eyes and go to the hospital for treatment in time if any abnormalities are found. Early detection and early treatment can give children a healthy "vision".
Contributed by: Ren Jiping
(The author is a senior optometrist with more than 20 years of clinical experience in optometry. He is good at optometry for children with strabismus and amblyopia, progressive multifocal fitting for teenagers and the elderly, and pre- and post-cataract optometry.)
