"For the revolution, to protect eyesight, to prevent myopia, eye exercises begin! Close your eyes . ”
In 1963, eye exercises began to be piloted in primary and secondary schools in Beijing, and then quickly became widespread across the country. According to the National Vision Health Report released by the Peking University Development Institute, there will be more than 700 million myopia patients over the age of 5 in China. Why doesn't eye exercises twice a day seem to protect our eyesight? Today, let's talk to you about the window of our soul - eyes.
June 6 is generally around the day of the college entrance examination, and it is also the National Love Your Eyes Day, but because of the tense rhythm of the college entrance examination, almost no senior high school student notices this holiday. On the contrary, after the end of the college entrance examination, it entered the peak season of myopia laser surgery, and finally there was no need to read books and review, so parents dared to take their children to myopia surgery with confidence to prepare for the next college life.
According to the 2018 report, the myopia rate among Chinese adolescents has consistently ranked first in the world for the past decade. Chinese myopia patients over the age of 5 are the first in the world. What does it mean for 700 million people to suffer from myopia? This means that half of the world's 1.4 billion myopia patients are in China, and half of the people in China have myopia problems.
Since the first National Love Eye Day in 1996, the myopia problem of Chinese has become more and more serious, and various eye care and eye care activities have had little effect, but chain optical stores are everywhere. Laser myopia surgery, overwhelming publicity, so that the public has begun to get used to myopia. It is undeniable that relevant state departments, non-governmental and commercial organizations are working very hard to promote eye care and eye protection. But to this day, there are still three major misunderstandings about myopia in the eyes of Chinese parents: First, pseudomyopia can be cured by itself. Second, wearing glasses can make myopia worse. Third, eye exercises and eye care are effective for myopia.
Let's talk about the first problem first, pseudomyopia is mainly due to long-term overuse of the eyes, and the eye axis becomes longer due to looking at mobile phones or computers for a long time. If one is not careful, pseudomyopia becomes irreversible true myopia. However, many parents believe that pseudomyopia can be cured on its own. "My child has been studying a lot lately, and when the summer vacation is over, it will be good to go out and play during the winter vacation. The reality is that the children are busy in class, busy after class, after school and then in various classes, and do homework until 10 o'clock in the evening, and there is not enough time to rest. Children's pseudomyopia, under academic pressure, myopia is getting higher and higher, and they are forced to develop true myopia. Even now, some children have worn glasses when they are in the first grade, and the traditional concept has harmed many children, and many parents will think that wearing glasses will aggravate myopia, and they will not be able to take off their glasses in this life.
Both of these views were once very popular among parents in China. They believe that since pseudomyopia can be cured on its own, there is no need to wear glasses for children, so that their children do not become small four-eyed and four-eyed boys. But when the child really can't see the blackboard clearly, parents still have to take the child to get glasses, and the possibility of self-healing has long been lost. Workers have reported that the idea that "wearing glasses is bad" is still very popular in rural areas. In fact, wearing glasses correctly can help reduce the development of myopia symptoms, and refusing to wear glasses to children will accelerate the severity of myopia in children, which also leads to many students who have 100 or 200 degrees of glasses when they go for the first time.
Then there is whether the eye exercises and eye protection devices that everyone is very concerned about are useful? Because of the existence of the previous two misunderstandings, China has a large number of claims that can be **myopia**, all kinds of eye patches, eye massagers, eye drops, health care products and so on. Some products advertise the use of infrared technology, some are steam heating, and some advertise the use of graphene. There are even more deceptive products that directly offer jokes such as "indecision, quantum mechanics" and "activation of the life energy field".
Do you think these things work? Seeing the increasing number of myopia patients in China, I am afraid we can only draw one conclusion: basically useless! Such a product can only assist you when you are still in pseudomyopia**. However, when you are already truly myopia, we are very sorry, these topical products can only make your eyes more comfortable, and cannot **myopia.
Here's the point, is "eye exercises" useful? Eye exercises are the largest, most influential, and longest-lasting of all myopia programs in China. The slogan: "Protect eyesight for the revolution" embodies his distinctive characteristics of the times. According to ** report, eye exercises, a massage technique for the muscles around the eyes, was invented by Liu Shimin, a physical education teacher in Beijing. In 1963, it was piloted and promoted in primary and secondary schools in Beijing, and soon it was popularized throughout the country. But ophthalmologists say eye exercises are useless. As early as 2015, the director of Beijing Tongren Hospital published a ** article that concluded: "Daily eye exercises in primary and secondary schools in China have statistically significant short-term effects on reducing the regulation of school-age children, but the clinical effect is not obvious." Considering the higher near-eye load in Chinese children, the effectiveness of eye exercises in preventing myopia progression may not be sufficient in the long run."
In the final analysis, eye exercises are only a massage technique, which can only temporarily relieve the fatigue of the muscles around the eyes, and cannot play a role in preventing myopia. And if you don't wash your hands after two lessons, how dirty your hands will be. If you scrape the eye socket directly with your hands, it may cause infection or other injuries. Of course, eye exercises are not useless, he compulsorily let the eyes rest for three to five minutes, so that the children can get a short break from the intense study. But if eye exercises can prevent or protect eyesight, it is not very scientific. As we all know, the myopia problem of students in China, Japan and South Korea is very serious, and the incidence of myopia among Chinese students is far higher than that of South Korea and Japan. Does this have something to do with students' academic pressure? In fact, studying hard does not necessarily make you myopic or increase your degree, and the root cause is not going outdoors.
There is already scientific evidence that prolonged close learning work does not necessarily lead to myopia. But spending almost all of their time on studying will result in a significant reduction in students' time spent outdoors to ......Hardly. There are also many medical ** shows that the duration of outdoor activities is strongly correlated with the development of myopia. More than one hour of outdoor activity a day can greatly reduce the development of myopia in minors. Some studies believe that outdoor activities have a wider field of vision, which can be changed for a short time, and the situation of continuous close-up eye tension can be achieved to achieve a combination of near and far. There are also studies that believe that outdoor light is healthier than indoor light, so wouldn't it be better to let children go out and play more and run? As we all know, teachers are willing to sacrifice their time to delay the class and give everyone two more questions in the February ** Dynamic Incentive Plan. The physical education teacher can't go to class every day at home, and the parents never look at the ** when you sign up for the tutoring class, and the teacher is afraid that you can finish the homework on time, so slowly each child's outdoor time is constantly compressed and compressed, and finally going out to play has become a luxury happiness.
The children's eyesight is not optimistic right now. An in-depth report from China Youth Daily in 2019 described the plight of today's students: only one choice can be chosen for study and vision. Under the fierce competition, it is obvious that you can only choose to study, after all, compared to the college entrance examination results, wearing glasses is not a big problem, not to mention that there is still myopia surgery? Then there is the peak of myopia surgery after the college entrance examination every summer. However, laser myopia surgery can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause, and there are certain risks, but compared to the grades, this is not a big deal, and choosing to study is by far the best collective choice and individual choice. Alas, what to do then? For the sake of the eyes, everyone can still go out and see more, just go out and see more, don't always stay at home and play with your mobile phone!
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