Caring Your Children’s Eyes

Parents once find your child’s eye sight degree is below the 0.7, and it is authenticity short-sighted. You have to let him wear glasses, otherwise the child will see distant things unclearly, as time goes by, myopia will deepen. Some of the parents choose eyeglasses for their children as casually as buy a pencil eraser at a stationery store which is very wrong. And the parents must take your children to the hospital to do optometry of expanding the pupil to identify a child whether is authenticity myopia, and then choose their eyeglasses based on their eye degree.

And the optical criteria are; choose the lowest and the eye feeling comfortable degree in the vision correction lenses which are 1.0 or above. You should watch out that the correction degrees should be enough, not too low or too high.

There are also many concerns on how to wear glasses. If the degree of eyeglasses is 400 or below, child can wear them when they are looking at the blackboard. When reading and writing he may take off, doing like that can reduce using of the eyes ability of adjustment, and prevent or slow down the progression of myopia, but wearing and taking off will not speed up the development of myopia. 400 degrees or higher should not wearing and taking off. But when looking in near, will increase the eye’s regulation. So the best alternative for more than 400 degree is to prepare two glasses, which is a little expensive. And you can choose a pair of progressive multi-focal glasses.

The glass frames adding on the child’s tender nose which bring inconvenience while children are playing, and may break the lens, stimulate the eyes and may affect the development of a child facial. Fortunately, Essilor Optical Company Scientists have invented light and not easily broken thin resin lenses, which will e the best choice for children.

The child after wearing eyeglasses still should pay attention to eye health everywhere, especially less watching TV, not playing games. When looking in near for a long time, you should see more distant objects to relax the eye regulation and to avoid the short eye sight development.

All these parents should pay attention to and you also should teach your children how to protect their eyes better. Parents should encourage children to eat more grains, cereals, vegetables and fruits and attach importance to the nutritional supply of the eye. Children should eat less sugar food and snacks, do more outdoor activities and participate in good physical exercises.

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Some Food Good for Children’s Eyes

Eyes are important to human beings. Without eyes, we can’t read book, watch TV, even can not afford our ordinary life. Since those reasons, we should protect our eyes well by all odds. However, as children, they have too many chances to let eyes go too far: studying on books, watching TV, as well as playing video games. If they continue doing these all the time, they will lose their good eyesight: feeling dry in eyes, having a glutted feeling in their forehead, and even having a headache. So protecting our children’s eyes has become an extremely urgent.

Besides children protect their eyes themselves, we can also do something to protect them. The easiest method is to be careful about children’s everyday food. Food that is good for children’s eyes are meat, fish, milk, eggs and beans. These foods contain abundant protein, which is necessary in cell renewing.

Vitamin A is also good to children’s eyes. One will not be able to see clearly in dark when lacking of Vitamin A. What’s more, Vitamin A can make fatigued eyes more comfortable. Foods contain Vitamin A are: animal’s livers, cod-liver oil, milk, eggs, carrots, spinach and fruits such as oranges and persimmons. Fruits also contain lots of Vitamin C, which has also good effects on children’s eyes.

Vitamin C is one of the components being composed of the eyeball crystalline lens. One will fall ill easy to suffer from turbid cataract of crystalline lens lacking of Vitamin C. So we should absorb enough Vitamin C in our everyday food and drink. For example, we should have enough fresh vegetables and fruits, such as green pepper, cucumber, cauliflower, pear and orange.

The last thing you be careful to be calcium. Calcium can remove the strained effect of eye. The legume, potherb, dried small shrimps all contain amounts enriching comparatively.

Food and drink is an important link in protecting our eyes, especially in protecting our children’s eyes. Not as adults, children have too many chances to harm their eyes. So we must do something to let them have a pair of bright eyes, shouldn’t us?

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