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General Health

Child Myopia, or Short-Sightedness: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments

One third of the world’s population suffer from different forms of myopia. In East Asian countries 80% of people over the age of 18 have symptoms of myopia. In the United States the spread of the disease has increased from 25% to 42% over the past 30 years. According to the research of Canadian Family Pharmacy , the number of students with myopia increases during school period from 12% to 55%. Progressive myopia (when the eye grows in length) is noticed between the ages of 6 to 17 years old, sometimes – from 5 to 21. There are many effective treatments for children’s …