Contact Lens Tips and Guide

Indications for children contact lens : Astigmatism

If a child in one or both eyes indicate astigmatism more than 0.75 diopters, to correct their vision is very effective to use toric contact lenses. Their presence in the market today allows them to not use gas permeable lenses (which is rigid) because complex adaptation children’s eyes. In addition, under a rigid lens can get foreign objects which may cause injury.

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Indications for children contact lens : Amblyopia and anisometropia

Anisometropia is a condition where the eye has a refraction disorder that is not for the right eye and left eye. It could be an eye myopia and the other eye hypermetropia. The difference of these abnormalities at least 1.0 diopters. If there is anisometropia of 2.5 – 3.0 diopters it will be perceived to be a big difference in the shadow of 5%, which would result in disruption of fusion. In this situation can occur suppression of vision in one eye. Fusion is a mental process that combines shadow created by the two eyes to form a dimensional field of binocular vision.

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Indications for children contact lens : Myopia and hyperopia

Myopia – the most common defect from the eye optical system. According to statistics, nearsightedness occurs in 25-35% from Europe, 70% from East Asia and only 12% from Australia. The study of the causes revealed that one factor is the development of eye pathology accommodative apparatus.

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Indications for children contact lens : Aphakia

The purpose of contact lenses for children to have a large number of indications. This will be discussed in several articles :

Aphakia
According to statistics published in the British weekly journal «Optician», cases blindness in infants is about 10-30%, is due to innate or can be from cataracts. According to the doctor if the cataract can be detected early and the doctor can remove it, the greater the chance the child to have good vision later.

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Contact lenses Features for children

Improving children vision with contact lenses is possible and necessary. In children, it is important to use methods of vision correction, which will not cause visual field restriction and distortion to the optical object.

Eyeglass significantly reduces the vision peripheral field, making it difficult for spatial orientation, while playing sports, they can be covered with dust, dirt, and even trauma. During this activity is difficult to avoid the glasses on the nose, that will not happen with contact lenses, contact lenses solve the problem of those who use glasses, remove the psychological discomfort experienced by many children in their neighborhood. These problems can be avoided even patients with high myopia, it’s because the range of refractions of modern contact lenses are very wide.

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