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4. Sitting around the television can affect children’s vision

This belief has been passed from generation to generation and will continue to happen if it is contemplated that the children have the ability to focus close up much better than adults. However, if the child stays close to the device may be because they do not have good distance vision, to suffer myopia, which has no relation with watching television. It is therefore recommended that small is evaluated regularly by an ophthalmologist to make sure you do not need glasses to see better. Read the rest of this entry »

Do not watch TV too close or spend much time in front of computer monitor are two of the myths that surround the eye care, are there others? Discover them for yourself and finally discard or fortify.

If we were to be guided by the adage “the devil knows more because he’s old, that devil, he would agree to all the recommendations we have for years grandparents and parents. It is not put into question what they say, but to find a scientific support for these myths with which we lived. Here we refer to that allude directly to eye care, and which surely there are some that you know: Read the rest of this entry »

Combinations and treatments

It is not uncommon for those who suffer astigmatism also have other refractive abnormalities, such as nearsightedness or farsightedness. In the first, the eyeball is longer (such as egg laying) than normal and the object to be observed is focused in front of the retina, located at the bottom of the eye, and not exactly on it, so that fail see distant images, the opposite is called hyperopia, and both reached their maximum degree of advancement at age 22, about age when the eye reaches its full maturity.

Imagine then the double vision problem: not defining objects (near or far) and, furthermore, distorted view. Fortunately, medical science has made significant progress to correct these anomalies, the most common prescription glasses for children, and special soft contact lenses (O) or rigid gas permeable, adolescents and adults. Read the rest of this entry »

Astigmatism is an eye disease, but a deformity of the eye that makes the best vision. The incidence is equal in men than in women, these women who come to be addressed in greater numbers.

In astigmatism there is decreased visual acuity both for distance and near vision due to distortion or irregularity in the curvature of the cornea (eye transparent membrane that is directly in contact with the outside), which causes the edges of objects are observed blurred or poorly defined or perceived images look elongated or oval. Read the rest of this entry »