HYPEROPIA IN CHILDREN

IS HYPEROPIA IN CHILDREN DANGEROUS? WHEN SHOULD HYPEROPIA IN CHILDREN BE TREATED?

Farsightedness (Hyperopia) is a relatively common refractive error in children. This refractive error is usually due to the shorter than normal eyeball axis, the image will be focused behind the retina.

Mild hyperopia usually has no symptoms, while moderate to severe hyperopia causes blurred near vision and blurred distance vision sometime.

Most children are born with mild physiological hyperopia, which does not affect vision, and the hyperopia gradually decreases as the size of the eyes increases and reaches normalization at about 6 years of age.

However, some children have an abnormal eye development process that causes them to have high hyperopia that does not decrease over time, causing eye problems such as blurred vision, eye strain, strabismus/strabismus, and amblyopia. 

Treatment of hyperopia in children depends on the age of the child and the amount of hyperopia that the child is experiencing.

 Therefore, parents should take their children to the doctor from a young age and periodically follow them up for timely detection and treatment abnormalities in the eyes.