Parents can often ask for advice and help with managing screen time for their children. Here we provide a summary of government and health organization screen time guidelines for children, as well as resources for eye care practitioners to use in communication with parents.
This landmark paper examines the theory underlying the reporting of myopia control efficacy and the sequelae of such investigation. The authors propose an alternate method of reporting efficacy; Cumulative Absolute Reduction in Axial Elongation (CARE), which conveys the benefit that a child receiving a specified treatment might expect, independent of age, progression rate, refractive error and ethnicity over a stated time period.
Children are accessing screens at school, around the home and for personal entertainment at younger and younger ages. At the same time, there has been an unprecedented increase in myopia in children, with higher numbers and earlier age of onset. Read about what we do and don’t know about this link; the impact of screen time on binocular vision and dry eye in kids, and guidelines for advice to parents.
A two-year-old with high myopia and astigmatism – the discussion included co-management, the best optical correction, and the lifelong management ahead. Read more on managing the highly myopic toddler.
What do you do when your patient doesn’t respond to your orthokeratology (orthoK) treatment and things don’t add up? Here’s a case for you where an optometrist had to become a bit more investigative to determine the cause.
A child has an allergic reaction to low dose atropine – or does he? Here practitioners consider the possible causes, with advice for management. We then frame this discussion in view of the evidence-base with take home clinical messages.
Adult myopia progression is frequently encountered in practice, yet we have almost no evidence base to guide management. Here we explore how often and how much myopia progression occurs in adulthood, and management options.
HWN presented this case involving a 32-year-old woman whose myopia onset after having her first child and had progressed since.
Learn about trends and attitudes with contact lenses for myopia control and how practices are changing in some world regions but not others.
Read a summary of Contact Lens Spectrum’s special edition on myopia, published in late 2019, and use the links to read the full version.
