Year: 1983
Type: editorial
Abstract: Do unnecessary spectacles make the eyes worseChildren require spectacles for optical reasons-for the correction of important refractive errors (hyper- metropia, myopia, and astigmatism).Refractive errors in children are detected usually by routine school vision tests, by parents or teachers noticing visual difficulties such as screwing up of the eyelids or uneven educational progress, or simply by know- ledge of a family history of refractive errors.There is also a therapeutic need for spectacles in the treatment of strabismus when there is a close link between accommodation and over convergence of the eyes.By relaxing the accommodation with convex (or positive) spectacle lenses the convergent strabismus can also be satisfactorily 'relaxed' or controlled.The need for these therapeutic spectacles (sometimes bifocals) gradually lessens during child- hood and they may often be abandoned at puberty.Spectacles are an emotive issue among parents and teachers.There is still a generally held belief that spectacles in some way 'cure' or 'treat' eye
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood
Author: J L Bankes
Language: English
Subfield: Ophthalmology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2139336270