Myopia is a visual defect affecting the global population. With the development of technology, our lifestyles are changing and have direct consequences on our eyesight. It is scientifically proven that modern tools are linked to the early development and rapid progression of myopia. This is why vision professionals advise limiting screen time and regularly looking into the distance.
Myopia can be corrected in different ways:
- With corrective glasses: correction is achieved with concave or divergent lenses. The power of the eye is reduced so that the image of the object being viewed forms on the retina. It is a lens that is thick at the edge and thin in the center, and the thicker the correction, the thicker it is. There are now thinned lenses that allow many myopes to choose rimless (without frame) or nylor (with a wire holding the lens) glasses. But depending on the degree of correction, it is still advantageous to prefer small frames to hide the thickness of the lens when grinding or to choose slightly thicker acetate glasses to camouflage the lens.
- With contact lenses: all lenses correct myopia, rigid, soft, monthly or daily disposables. The choice will be made based on your general health, your eye parameters (quantity and quality of tears, radii of curvature, healthy cornea and eyelids, etc.) with your ophthalmologist or optician-optometrist. Since wearing lenses cannot be permanent, glasses remain essential.
- With surgical operation: refractive surgery performed by an ophthalmologist can correct myopia by reshaping the cornea, most often with a laser, so that the image forms on the retina and not in front of it. This quick and painless operation has been performed for about thirty years on stabilized myopia. Vision is quickly improved.
No medical treatment can reduce or limit this phenomenon.
After 40 years old, presbyopia sets in and myopes remove their glasses to see well up close; in some, with the densification of the lens, myopia "regresses".
Warning: the myopic eye is more sensitive, it is imperative to wear sunglasses of category 3 or 4 depending on the activities, even with contact lenses.
