Can myopia be cured? Myth!
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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 8 (Reporter Wang Bingyang) Recently, six departments – the National Health Commission, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Education, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the National Medical Products Administration – jointly issued a notice titled “On Further Regulating the Correction of Myopia among Children and Adolescents and Strengthening Supervision.” Regarding the current issues of false and exaggerated advertising, the notice requires that institutions or individuals engaged in the correction of myopia among children and adolescents must operate in strict compliance with the law; they are not allowed to use terms such as \"recovery,\" \"restoration,\" \"reduction of prescription strength,\" \"cure for myopia,\" or \"solution to myopia\" in their promotional materials to mislead children and adolescents with myopia as well as their parents. It is prohibited to violate the provisions of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Law by misusing the name of traditional Chinese medicine or deceiving consumers by relying on traditional Chinese medicine theories and techniques in order to gain unfair advantages. Recently, there have been frequent issues in the field of correcting myopia among children and adolescents, with problems such as false and exaggerated advertising being particularly prominent. These practices seriously mislead children and adolescents with myopia as well as their parents, pose a threat to their visual health, and have drawn widespread attention from society. Addressing misconceptions such as the idea that myopia can be cured, Li Songfeng, chief ophthalmologist at Beijing Tongren Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, explained that under current medical technologies, myopia cannot be cured in children and adolescents once it develops. Myopia can be prevented, controlled, and slowed down during childhood and adolescence through proper eye use, increasing time spent in outdoor activities, and reducing prolonged close-range eye use.
It still needs to start with improving the child’s daily habits*
This post was last edited by Benbang Self-Regulating Valve – Engineer Li on 2019-4-10 at 09:57. Some people in the micro-business sector sell so-called \"golden eye patches\" that are claimed to be able to cure myopia. Many people still buy it. I don’t know what kind of culture those buyers come from, or why they believe in it Even in the case of pseudo-myopia, it needs to be gradually corrected through proper daily habits. Although many traditional Chinese medicines have the effect of clearing the mind and improving vision, don’t assume that just because they improve vision they can treat myopia; their purpose is to deal with issues such as eye discharge and bloodshot eyes. Do you know what eye discharge is? Really, many parents go and buy those eye patches; it’s more important to limit children’s use of smartphones and to pay close attention to how they use their eyes!
Surgery is possible, but the child must be 18 years old!