It became bad to see near treatment. Age farsightedness

It became bad to see near treatment. Age farsightedness

Myopia

Myopia (myopia) is a visual defect or the so-called pathology of the eye, in which the image is focused in front of the retina. In people with myopia, either the length of the eye is increased (axial myopia), or the cornea has a large refractive power, and therefore a small focal length (refractive myopia) arises. Simply put, myopia is when a person sees well near and barely sees into the distance. Deleted objects that a person sees seem vague, blurry. Visual acuity below 1.0. Such people wear optics with a negative value.

Statistics show that over the past decade, the number of people suffering from myopia has increased. So, over 1.2 billion people all over the world wear negative glasses. People suffering from myopia are young people from 6 to 20 years old, namely schoolchildren and students. It is likely that the number of such people will increase, due to the use of personal computers and mobile ...

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Quite a common visual impairment is a condition where nearby objects are hard to see. This may make it difficult to read a book, newspaper, annotation or view the image on the monitor of your computer, phone or tablet.

Ophthalmologist will help you to choose glasses for the correction of farsightedness.

Letters and pictures blur near, which causes the viewed object to be moved further away from the eyes. Reasonable questions arise: “why do I not see well near?”, “What to do if I see far, but not close” we will describe the reasons for such a violation in this article.

The most common cause of impaired visibility of objects near considered hyperopia. Pathology due to incorrect focusing of the light beam in the eyeball. This leads to the fact that distant objects are viewed well, and close ones become vague. The closer the observed object, the worse it can be seen.

Types of farsightedness:

  Age farsightedness. Such a disease appears with ...

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If a person pulls a book away from the eyes while reading or wears “plus” glasses, then he suffers from farsightedness. Farsightedness is a violation of vision, in which the ability to see nearby objects is sharply deteriorating (distance 20-30 cm).

In ancient times, it was this visual defect that triggered the invention of glasses. It all began in the 15th century, when typography appeared. People who previously had no idea that they see poorly near, realized that it was difficult for them to read: the letters blurred. To help farsighted, and special reading glasses were created. Lenses for myopic came up only a century later.

Most often, farsightedness occurs in young children and in people over 40 years of age.

The reasons

Farsightedness, caused by the short longitudinal axis of the eye, is usually inherited from parents to children.

After 40-45 years due to age-related changes in the body, for many people the refractive ability begins to deteriorate ...

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This is due to the fact that with age, the biological lens of the eye (lens) becomes denser and loses its elasticity - this reduces the ability to focus on objects with different distances.

Points for near vision are the solution to the problem of poor vision near both for young people and people of old age. Moreover, if the vision is not 100%, then you may need two pairs of glasses (for distance and near), bifocal or progressive glasses (combining the property of lenses for distance and near).


  Points for near vision are the solution to the problem of poor vision near both for young people and people of old age.

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That's how it turns out - my mom had excellent vision all her life. But in recent years, in view of age, she began to suffer from hyperopia.

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I wonder what will happen to my vision in old age? Finding the answer led me to this article. So, honored. Farsightedness caused the invention of glasses ... did not know. What is a "lazy" eye ... Oh, oh, oh, with long-sightedness, you can not serve in the army!

If a person pulls a book away from the eyes while reading or wears “plus” glasses, then he suffers from farsightedness.

Farsightedness - a violation of vision, in which dramatically ...

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The human eye is an optical system that refracts light rays and projects an image onto the retina. In order for the image to be clear, the lens needs to change its curvature. This is due to the ciliary muscle. During normal operation of this muscle and the absence of pathologies of the eye, the rays of light passing through the lens focus directly on the retina. With deviations, eye diseases, focusing occurs in front of the retina, or behind it, that is, such problems with visual acuity, such as myopia and hyperopia, develop.

Myopia, what is it and why does it appear?

With myopia (myopia), only objects located at a certain short distance can be clearly perceived by the eye, since their image is focused strictly on the retina. Everything that is located further, a person with myopia sees indistinctly, vaguely. This is because the rays from more distant objects, being refracted in the structures of the eye, form an image not on ...

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What is farsightedness eyesight
  By farsightedness is understood an ophthalmologic disease in which the normal refraction of the eye is impaired. A person sees poorly close objects. Images of objects located far away are also formed in a special way. They are located behind the retina. This ailment is also called hyperopia. It suffers more than a quarter of the population of our planet.

If the disease is mild, then the eyes can focus the image of the object on the retina. This requires their voltage. This feature is characteristic of young people. Mild, too, requires treatment.

Long-sighted people often squint their eyes, trying to improve accommodation. This provokes the appearance of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.

The reasons

Abnormal eye refraction occurs due to the fact that the eyeball along the anteroposterior axis has a small size. The eyes of newborns are always farsighted. This is a normal physiological process, ...

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Often you hear questions from ignorant people about whether hyperopia is a plus or a minus. In order to correctly answer such questions, it is necessary to understand the principle of the human organs of vision and to study possible problems that may arise.

The eye is one of the most complex organs in the human body. The interaction of the visual system with the cerebral cortex allows you to transform the rays of light coming from the outside world into visual images. To understand how this happens, it is necessary to consider what the human eye is made of.

Eye structure

The eye is a very complex optical system, which consists of many parts.

Cornea. Through it, light waves enter the eye. It is an organic lens, with the help of which light signals diverging along the sides are focused. The sclera is an external opaque eye shell that does not actively participate in the conduction of light. The arc is ...

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2. Restoration of vision with myopia.

Since I myself had to cope with myopia, then I will write about it. As Bates established (for more details, see above), with myopia in the eye, two oblique muscles are chronically tense above and below, the eye is stretched out with a “cucumber”. In addition, due to the wearing of glasses, the motor muscles of the eyes are weakened. Hence, the main task in eliminating myopia should be to relax the stressed oblique muscles and train the weakened locomotor muscles. It is quite easy to train motor muscles in myopia (they are not weakened to the same extent as in hyperopia). But with the relaxation of spasmodic oblique muscles - the cause of myopia - most likely, it will not be so simple. Personally, this was exactly what took me much longer. This tension over the years becomes habitual, a myopic person stops noticing him.

There is no need to wait for immediate miraculous results, especially if you continue to wear glasses ....

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Why does the sight weaken?

Reason 1 - Lack of work of eye muscles

The image of objects that we see depends on the retina, the photosensitive part of the eye, and also on the change in the curvature of the lens - a special lens inside the eye, which the ciliary muscles make it become more convex, then more flat - depending on the distance to the object. If you constantly focus on the text of a book or a computer screen, the muscles that control the lens will become sluggish and weak. Like any muscles that do not have to work, they lose their shape.

Reason 2 - Retinal Aging

The cells of the retina contain a photosensitive pigment with which we see. With age, this pigment is destroyed and visual acuity decreases.

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With farsightedness it is impossible to consider the nearest objects, but distant objects are clearly visible. This is because the luminous flux is not focused strictly on the retina, but is collected behind it.

In order to correctly answer the question posed in the title, it is necessary to know how the visual system works and its possible problems.

Vision in various diseases

Eye structure

The visual system is one of the most complex in the human body. Interacting with the cortex of the brain, the eyes transform the rays of light into visible images.

Each of the dozens of elements of the vision system performs a specific function.

Light reflected by objects hits the cornea. It focuses incoming rays and refracts them. Through the chamber filled with colorless liquid, the light rays reach the iris, in the center of which the pupil is located. Only the central rays pass through its opening, and the rest are filtered out by the iris pigment cells.

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"I began to see worse near," - such a complaint can often be heard at an appointment with an ophthalmologist. Hyperopia, or hyperopia, is a visual impairment, in which a person weakly sees closely spaced objects. However, it is erroneous to believe that such people well distinguish distant objects. With farsightedness, vision can be equally fuzzy and close and far away.

I do not see well near: why is this happening?

In fact, farsightedness is a violation of refraction, in which the image of objects focuses not on the retina, but behind it. Normally, thanks to accommodation, our eyes are able to focus on objects of different distances. This feature provides an equally sharp image when viewing objects at different distances from the viewer. In hypermetropia, the refractive power is insufficient and the accommodation of the eye is disturbed.

Causes of farsightedness

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Consultation of an ophthalmologist on the topic “Age-Sightedness” is given for reference purposes only. According to the results of the consultation, please consult your doctor, including to identify possible contraindications.

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Farsightedness (hyperopia) is a pathology of refraction of the eye, which is characterized by the formation of the image of objects behind the retina of the eye. With farsightedness, the eye axis is significantly shortened, or a weak refractive power of the cornea is observed.

Symptoms

Symptoms of farsightedness are obvious - a person sees poorly near, but when looking at distant objects, depending on the degree of farsightedness, a person can see them both clearly and blurry. At a young age, the lens of the eye is able to adapt and accommodate the resources of the eye in order to increase optical power. At an older age, this is not possible, as the resources of the eye are gradually being exhausted, therefore, the symptoms of hyperopia are progressing.

In addition, the symptoms of farsightedness can be attributed to eye fatigue when reading, as well as over-exerting them during long work. In addition, the eyes of people with long-sighted eyes often become inflamed, and children can develop strabismus and so ...

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Vision problems can be at all - like ordinary people, and among pop stars. They did not bypass the side of Andrei Malakhov, whose image no one presents without glasses. Yes, the famous TV presenter had poor eyesight, but recently in one of the interviews he stated that he had managed to correct him with the help of a new amazing tool. What kind of means this is, he did not say then, and this gave rise to many rumors and assumptions. But we will not repeat them and guess, but rather ask Andrei Malakhov himself about this. A HELLO correspondent was able to interview Andrey for a short interview during the break between filming.

Andrew, when did your eyesight deteriorate? And how was it at the time of recovery?

I had bad eyesight since childhood, but it fell particularly during my student years. Before the recovery was minus 4.5. Perhaps even a little more, because before that he had not visited doctors for a long time.

Have you tried to restore sight before that?

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BAD VISION NEARBY

“I don’t see closely” - patients with such a complaint often turn to an ophthalmologist. The most common cause of poor vision at close range is presbyopia (“Age Farsightedness” or “Short Arm Disease”), which occurs in people over 40 years of age.

This is due to the fact that with age, the biological lens of the eye (lens) becomes denser and loses its elasticity - this reduces the ability to focus on objects of different distances.

In addition, young people with long-sightedness (hypermetropia) can also complain that "I can see badly close". This is due to the fact that they already have a so-called “plus” - a violation of refraction, in which a person sees better in the distance than in the vicinity (unlike myopia).

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Age farsightedness

Clear seers

Consultant: Tamara Dolinskaya, PhD, an ophthalmologist

Presbyopia, or age-sightedness - not a disease, but a natural physiological process. Many who have stepped over the 40-50-year-old frontier face this: objects, especially close ones, look like a fog, their eyes get very tired when reading, it becomes difficult to distinguish the small print.

With age, presbyopia develops absolutely in all - both people from childhood who have one hundred percent of their eyesight, and those who suffer from short-sightedness, and those who are far-sighted. By the way, for the latter, this process begins earlier than for everyone else.

Presbyopia is a visual impairment associated with a gradual and irreversible change in the ability of the eye to focus an image of an object at close and medium distances.

Presbyopia Correction Methods

Non-surgical:

contact lenses.

Surgical:

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Myopia and hyperopia are the most common pathologies of refraction. The causes of myopia and hyperopia are very diverse, but all of them somehow lead to a deterioration in vision. We learn what makes myopia and hyperopia different and what it is like to treat such diseases.

Signs of farsightedness and myopia have some common features. Many people do not know what myopia and farsightedness are and believe that with all such diseases, vision is equally bad. However, this is not quite true.

Yes, with all these pathologies a person has poor eyesight. However, the difference is that when myopia is observed near vision is poor, but objects that are far away are clearly visible. With myopia, everything happens exactly the opposite. The person begins to distinguish outlines of objects not sharply, but indistinctly. Sometimes he sees some objects as unclear spots (this happens with strongly pronounced degrees of myopia or hyperopia).

If a person's eyesight, myopia and hyperopia is deteriorating, these are the main reasons for this defect. Both myopia (and myopia) and hyperopia are distinguished by the following symptoms:

  • fatigue with prolonged visual work;
  • headaches;
  • rezmy in the eyes;
  • accommodation disturbances.

Sometimes a person may have together myopia and farsightedness: one eye does not see well into the distance, and the other - close. This only adds to the inconvenience of visual work and negatively affects the quality of life.

Visual impairment is often accompanied by headaches.

These pathologies of vision do not allow a person to lead a normal life. This applies especially to patients with a strong degree of myopia. Good news for people suffering from visual pathologies: they can correct their vision with the help of laser surgery.

In general, the answer to the question of why I do not see well, can only be an ophthalmologist. We recommend to contact him immediately if there are symptoms of vision loss. The doctor will also distinguish myopia from hyperopia.

What is myopia

When myopia rays are focused not on the retina, and near it. A blurred image of the subject appears on the retina. Simply put, a person with myopia sees worse. Objects at a distance are visible vaguely. Up close, he can see satisfactorily. People with myopia wear glasses with negative lenses (their optical power is measured in diopters with a negative, minus, value). This is the answer to the question of whether farsightedness is a plus or a minus (with hypermetropia, the lenses will be positive).


Myopia has three levels of development.

Myopia happens:

  • weak (up to three diopters with a minus sign);
  • medium degree (from 3 to 6 diopters);
  • strong (over 6 diopters).

Why does myopia occur?

The main reasons why a person may become short-sighted are such.

  1. Unfavorable heredity.
  2. Eye strain. This is one of the reasons why the eye began to see worse. Occurs due to visual overvoltage, poor lighting and so on.
  3. Long and constant work at close range.
  4. Elongation eyeball.
  5. Enhance the refractive power of the lens and cornea.
  6. Wrong approach to vision correction, or when it is not corrected at all.


Observe the correct distance from the eyes to the monitor when working at the computer

What is progressive myopia

At the same time, myopia increases by one or more diopters per year. This is shown by the visual acuity test. Often, such myopia can appear during the intensive growth of adolescents.

Progressive myopia (its presence also shows the test) can cause complications:

  • deterioration of nutrition of eye tissues
  • retinal detachment;
  • clouding of the lens, vitreous body.

If you notice that your child has become ill to see, it must be urgently shown to the doctor. If you do not treat such myopia, vision may deteriorate significantly.

Can myopia go into farsightedness

Some patients, not knowing about the features of myopia and farsightedness, what it is and why they arise, believe that myopia can turn into hyperopia. Definitely, myopia cannot turn into hyperopia: these are two completely different systems of refraction. However, there is a state where the test shows that one eye has become short-sighted and the other has a long-sighted one. Also, there can be signs of hyperopia with myopia.

The condition when myopia and farsightedness are simultaneously observed in a patient requires a special approach in the selection of glasses and treatment.


With simultaneous myopia and hyperopia, it is much more difficult for the patient to find the correct correction.

What you need to know about farsightedness

When farsightedness of a person is concerned about poor vision near. It is also possible age-related visual impairment - presbyopia. There is an opinion that a far-sighted person sees worse up close, and better off into the distance. This is not entirely true. With presbyopia, this is exactly what happens when a person experiences reading difficulties. However, in other cases, vision loss may occur both far and near.

Among the causes of hyperopia emit:

  • shortening of the eyeball;
  • changes in the refractive ability of the visual system (when the lens loses the ability to accommodation with age).

There are also a combination of these two factors.


When hypermetropia is the shortening of the eyeball

Symptoms of hyperopia are:

  • a person cannot see closely spaced objects;
  • with a high degree of farsightedness, a person is equally poorly seen both far and near;
  • eye strain while reading;
  • strabismus;
  • inflammatory eye disease;
  • eye strain.

The degrees of hypermetropia are:

  • weak (up to 2 diopters);
  • medium (from 2 to 5);
  • strong (more than 5 diopters).

The degree of hypermetropia is determined by the visual acuity test.

Usually, a patient after 30 years of age begins a gradual deterioration in vision due to accommodation disturbance. This means that the eye gradually loses its ability to “tune” the focus of view when moving from a close to a distant object. And after 40 years of age, the patient develops age-related hyperopia, or presbyopia.

Refraction Definition

Only an ophthalmologist can find out if a patient has myopia or farsightedness. How and what to determine such pathologies?

For this you need to do such tests.

  1. Definition of visual acuity. For this purpose, a special table is used, which determines a person’s ability to see certain symbols. If a person has one hundred percent vision, then he will see the tenth line at the bottom of the table.
  2. Diagnosis of the fundus. The detected changes serve as an indication for further treatment.
  3. The choice of lenses required power (sometimes their optical power may be different for each eye).

Treatment methods for myopia and hyperopia

What to do in case of accommodation pathologies? First of all, you need to consult a doctor. If you do not do this, then all sorts of complications can develop, the most dangerous of which is loss of vision.

The main methods of treating hyperopia and myopia are.



Progressive myopia and hyperopia are treated by implantation of an artificial lens. According to doctors, the risk of losing sight during surgery is minimal and less than one percent.

How to prevent such pathologies

Prevention of myopia and hyperopia includes such measures.

      1. Monitor the workplace lighting.
      2. Alternate visual loads with physical activity.
      3. Train your ciliary muscle with the help of special exercises.
      4. Regularly examined by an ophthalmologist.
      5. Eat right.

Regardless of whether a person has farsightedness or nearsightedness, he needs to undergo a preventive medical examination at least once a year. Follow all doctor's recommendations to help maintain visual acuity.

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Farsightedness (hyperopia) is a pathology of refraction of the eye, which is characterized by the formation of the image of objects behind the retina of the eye. With farsightedness, the eye axis is significantly shortened, or a weak refractive power of the cornea is observed.

Symptoms

Symptoms of farsightedness are obvious - a person sees poorly near, but when looking at distant objects, depending on the degree of farsightedness, a person can see them both clearly and blurry. At a young age, the lens of the eye is able to adapt and accommodate the resources of the eye in order to increase optical power. At an older age, this is not possible, as the resources of the eye are gradually being exhausted, therefore, the symptoms of hyperopia are progressing.

In addition, the symptoms of farsightedness can be attributed to eye fatigue when reading, as well as over-exerting them during long work. In addition, the eyes of people with long-sighted eyes often become inflamed, and strabismus and the so-called "lazy eye" symptom may develop in children.

Based on the symptoms, hyperopia is classified according to severity. Low farsightedness is up to +2 diopters, medium farsightedness is up to +5 diopters, and strong farsightedness is more than +5 diopters.

The disease is not easy, it can manifest itself in childhood with symptoms uncharacteristic of eye diseases. These are symptoms such as fatigue, moods, reluctant homework, sleep disturbances. Such asthenic complaints indicate overworked eyes, the visual apparatus. If you pay attention to this and diagnose hyperopia at an early stage, you can avoid complications such as lazy eye syndrome or amblyopia, strabismus, impaired intraocular fluid outflow, intraocular pressure and glaucoma.

Since the appearance of the very first symptoms, one cannot ignore the farsightedness, let the disease take its course, because the complications to which hypermetropia leads may be the most unpleasant and dangerous.

As soon as you notice that those objects that are close, began to see worse, immediately contact an optometrist. You need to check the visual acuity on a special table. The specialist examines the fundus of the eye, will conduct an ultrasound. With the help of a phoropter, you will be selected individually lenses. Keep in mind that with regular routine eye examinations, farsightedness cannot be detected, nor can its degree be established. So do not be complacent, if at the next medical examination the doctor did not notice any deviations from you: if you feel that you have begun to see worse, consult a doctor.

The reasons

The cause of hyperopia can be either a relatively flat curvature of the cornea, or its combination with an insufficient refractive power of the lens, an increased density of the lens, a short anterior-posterior axis of the eyeball, or a deviation from the average optical indexes of the eye.

In young children, this type of refraction is physiological. Most full-term newborns have hypermetropic refraction of about 2-3 diopters. About 4-9% of infants aged 6-9 months and 3.6% at the age of 1 year have a hyperopia of more than 3.25 diopters. By the age of 5 in most children, refraction is close to emmetropic, but hypermetropia still prevails. The concomitant high degrees of astigmatism and farsightedness also tend to decline by this age. In the next 10-15 years of life in children there is a significant decrease in the frequency of occurrence of hyperopia and an increase in the incidence of myopia.

Heredity plays a role in the occurrence of most cases of refractive errors, including hypermetropia. Along with this, environmental factors have an influence on its development and degree, however, in all likelihood, it is less significant than with myopia.

High-grade hypermetropia can occur in combination with certain common disorders, including albinism, Franceschetti syndrome (microphthalmia, macrophacia, tapetretinal degeneration), congenital amaurosis Leber, autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa.

Presbyopia is often confused with hypermetropia, a natural condition for every person that occurs after 40 years in which the accommodative abilities of the eye are reduced. This process leads to a decrease in near visual acuity and may contribute to the manifestation of previously (latent) farsightedness that has not manifested itself. In connection with the development of presbyopia by the age of 40-45, there has been an increase in the number of patients with hypermetropic refraction due to the manifestation of latent hyperopia.

At present, there is no data on the effect of gender on the predisposition to farsightedness. However, there is a greater prevalence among African Americans, residents of the Pacific region, North American Indians.

Signs of

The main symptom of farsightedness is near vision with a satisfactory and even very good distance vision. As a rule, such people wear glasses to read a book, but they can easily see the number of the bus, which seemed far away. Only with severe hyperopia, the patient begins to poorly distinguish between close and distant objects.

Moreover, during long-term work of the eyes near (computer, reading books, writing) people suffering from long-sightedness appear to have pains in their eyes, fatigue, tearing, burning and tingling in the eyes. Headaches, discomfort when looking at the light, or even intolerance to bright light can also join. Moreover, the higher the degree of farsightedness, the stronger the unpleasant reaction to light.

Degrees

Doctors ophthalmologists distinguish three degrees of hyperopia:

  • weak - up to +2.0 D
  • medium - up to + 5.0 D
  • high - over + 5.00 D

With low degrees of farsightedness, high vision is usually maintained both at a distance and near, but there may be complaints of fatigue, headache, dizziness. With a moderate degree of hyperopia - distant vision remains good, and close is difficult. With high farsightedness - poor vision and into the distance, and close, since all the possibilities of the eye to focus on the retina image of even distant objects are exhausted.

Farsightedness, including age, can only be detected by careful diagnostic examination   (with the medical expansion of the pupil, the lens relaxes and true refraction of the eye is manifested).

Kinds

In addition to natural physiological farsightedness in infants, the disease may be congenital. We are talking about those cases where the child’s vision does not return to normal with time. The cause of farsightedness of this form can serve not only the small size of the eyeball, but also the weak innate refractive power of the lens or cornea.

With congenital farsightedness in children with a coefficient higher than 3.0 diopters, there is a greater likelihood of developing a concomitant disease - strabismus of the friendly form. To it leads the overstrain of the eye muscles of the child and the constant reduction of the eyes to the nose for greater clarity of vision. Further progression of the disease can cause even more formidable complications of hyperopia in children - amblyopia (weakened vision of one of the eyes).

Age farsightedness is typical for people over 45 years old. The disease is caused by age-related changes in the muscles and tissues of the eye. The lens sclerosis over time, thickens, the ciliary muscle weakens, and the eye loses its ability to normal refraction of the rays.

Age-sightedness is the natural state of a person. It can not be prevented, but the effects of age-sighted hyperopia can be avoided: blurred vision, headache and eye strain. To do this, you need to start the correction of farsightedness with the help of glasses, contact methods or surgical treatment.

Often at a young age, hyperopia acquires a latent form. The accommodative capabilities of the eyes are still great, and the person does not feel any problems with his eyesight, but the overstrain of the eye muscles leads to rapid eye fatigue, headaches and nausea. Over time, the latent disease becomes apparent, and in the case of late diagnosis of hyperopia in children threatens to turn into squint or amblyopia.

How to treat

The main task of the treatment of farsightedness is to change the optical power of the eyes so that the visible image is focused not on the retina of the eye, but on it. There are conservative treatment and surgical correction of vision for hyperopia.

Man's hyperopia is corrected with glasses. Eyeglasses for farsightedness are used while reading, watching TV, working on a computer and other activities in which the eye focuses at close distances. As an alternative to glasses, contact lenses made from organic or mineral materials can be used. Lenses with farsightedness are very comfortable during outdoor activities and sports, but they are contraindicated in children.

As a conservative treatment can be noted some hardware methods to improve vision. These include ultrasound therapy, electrostimulation, vacuum massage, massaging glasses, etc. These methods in some cases give a good result in improving vision, avoid surgical correction.

Vitamins with the disease also have an important value, as they help to maintain the tone of the eye muscles.

The term "surgical correction" means laser correction   view. With the help of a medical laser, you can change the abnormal shape of the cornea, which in most cases causes farsightedness. The beam removes the layer of eye tissue, which leads to a change in the curvature of the refraction of light (refraction).

Laser correction is one of the most convenient and effective methods of treatment of eye diseases associated with impaired visual acuity. It allows you to treat myopia and hyperopia at the same time. The operation lasts for several minutes under local anesthesia, after which the patient goes home on the same day. But there is a risk of complications, leading to the re-correction of vision. If a patient has age-sightedness with severe accommodation disturbances, then laser treatment is not used in such cases.

If the disease has reached the most severe degree, implantation of a phakic or multifocal lens can be used to treat it.

But along with the aforementioned methods of treating the disease, the treatment of hyperopia with folk remedies is possible.

Prevention

As measures aimed at preventing the occurrence of eye disease, you must follow certain rules:

  • Lighting Mode Reading, writing and other visual loads should be carried out only in good light, using overhead lights or a 60–100 W desk lamp. Do not use fluorescent lamps. We must try not to combine artificial and natural lighting.
  • The mode of visual loads. Be sure to monitor the duration of visual loads, make pauses and breaks, rest your eyes. It is better to alternate intense visual work with active rest, gymnastics, to perform special exercises for the eyes during the breaks.
  • Gymnastics for the eyes. A special set of exercises for the eyes is recommended to perform every 30−40 minutes. Exercises include relaxing exercises and training eye muscles, elements of charging.
  • Special training of the eye muscles. It is carried out under the supervision of an ophthalmologist. Laser stimulation, computer correction, the use of medicines in the form of eye drops, courses of preventive gymnastics to strengthen the eye muscles responsible for accommodation.
  • Early detection and correct correction of a low degree of hyperopia. This will help to avoid the development of high degrees and progression of the disease, as well as the occurrence of complications.
  • Activities aimed at strengthening the body as a whole. Swimming, massage and the collar zone contrast shower, an active lifestyle are activities that will help reduce the risk of eye diseases.
  • Rational, good nutrition. Food must contain the necessary amount of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, vitamins (especially group A) and trace elements such as zinc, copper, chromium, manganese, etc.

Exercises for the prevention of hyperopia:

  • Solarization If during prolonged reading and writing you need to relax your eyes, then you can use the effect of a candle or the sun. You need to focus on the flame of a candle or the sun and alternate slow turns of the head to the right and left. Perform the exercise for 10 minutes. The sun is better to use dim (at dawn and at sunset).
  • Clock. Close eyes. Mentally imagine the watch face. Turn your head clockwise, glancing at all the numbers, then repeat the exercise counterclockwise. Eyes must be closed! Repeat 5-6 times.
  • Massage biological points. Click on the points located at the beginning of the eyebrows from the nose. Perform rotation with pressure. Exercise repeated 5−10 times.
  • Palming (relaxation). You need to take a comfortable position while sitting or lying down, close your eyes, cover them with your palms. Maximum relax and think only about pleasant. You can represent the sea, a beautiful landscape. Imagine that from the palms to the eyes emanates a pleasant warmth. Exercise should take at least 5 minutes. You can repeat during the day 3-4 times.
  • "Far close". This exercise can be performed at school, office, or at home. It is necessary, looking at the window, to focus on any point on the glass. Then you need to translate the view on any other point located in the distance, in the same direction, without looking in the other direction. This may be the roof of the house, the top of the tree, etc. The main thing is to alternate the distance "close - far." This exercise very well trains the eye muscles, stimulating accommodation.
  • We write "nose". Children like this exercise. You need to close your eyes and smoothly display the nose of the letters. Exercise well relaxes the muscles of the visual apparatus.

Active exercises, including turning, bending, relaxing elements, should be performed during prolonged eyestrain. They are a good prevention of farsightedness and other visual impairments, not only in children, but also in adults.

Senile

Presbyopia progresses regardless of our efforts to overcome it or from our attempts to ignore it. The most common myth associated with presbyopia: “Just start wearing glasses for reading - and your eyesight will immediately begin to deteriorate, and you will have to take stronger glasses. It’s better I’ll read without glasses. ”This article is not a myth, but a reality.

Let us recall the mechanism of accommodation according to Helmholtz. In response to the defocusing of the image on the retina, a nerve impulse with a reduction team runs along the parasympathetic part of the oculomotor nerve to the ciliary muscle; muscle contraction; ciliary ligaments relax; the tension of the lens capsule decreases; the lens due to its elasticity becomes more convex, therefore, it refracts stronger.

That is, we have a chain: the nerve - the muscle - the lens. In this chain, the gap can occur in any link.

If the lens ceases to respond to changes in the tension of the capsule due to the fact that it loses its elasticity - this is presbyopia or presbyopia.

The lens is a unique organ in our body. First of all, its uniqueness is that it alone has neither vessels nor nerves. The lens does not hurt, it can not be inflamed, it is fed from the fluid contained in the chambers of the eye (aqueous humor). It can react to the violation of the composition of the chamber moisture in a single way - to grow cloudy. Further, the uniqueness of the lens is that it is the only organ that grows throughout our lives.

Yes, the whole body stops growing by the age of 25, and the lens continues to grow, but does not increase its volume. He grows into himself. The sprout zone is under the front surface of the capsule, the new layer of lens fibers crawls under the capsule right up to the center of the back surface, while pushing the previous layers to the center and compacting them.

As a result, a denser nucleus and a more elastic lens cortex are formed. With age, the core becomes more dense, it is less capable of changing its shape. It affects already by 20 years. Remember, I said that the stock of accommodation is maximum at 15 years old, and from 18-20 years old it starts to decrease? So, this is precisely because of the compaction of the nucleus. Starting from the age of 20, the nearest point of clear vision is gradually moving away from the eyes, but until it reaches 30 cm, we do not notice this. It can be noticed by those who very heavily load their eyes - visual discomfort appears, because the supply of accommodation decreases.

Finally, after 35 years, we are surprised to notice that the newspaper wants to keep out of sight. After 40 years of outstretched hand is not enough, and you have to go to the eye doctor for glasses for near. As a rule, emmetropes (the first glasses are written out between 40 and 45 years. There are age norms of senile hyperopia. For emmetropes, 40 years old rely on reading positive glasses with a power of 1.0 D, at 45 years old - 1.5 D, at 50 years - 2 , 0 D, at 55 years old - 2.5 D, at 60 years old - 3.0 D, at 65 years old - 3.5 D.

Further, presbyopic progression does not progress, since the lens completely loses its elasticity, the cortical substance is almost completely absent. Consequently, at 70, and at 75, and at 80 years and beyond, emmetropus needs glasses of +3.5 D to read. Those who have long-sightedness add these glasses by age to the points needed for distance. Therefore, there are people who need glasses for the near +4.0 D or +6.0 D, and maybe more. With myopia from this age norm we subtract the correction for the distance. Therefore, myopic people can read for a long time without glasses.

I want you, my dear readers, to understand one simple truth: senile hyperopia progresses regardless of our efforts to overcome it or from our attempts to overlook it. So far, medicine has not found a way to stop the process of compacting the lens, because this is its life, its growth, its uniqueness. Therefore, those who, for various reasons, do not want to take reading glasses and torment their eyes, will earn nothing but a headache. And in this case you will have to take points not from +1.0 D, but from the age limit from which you surrender.

How many times I had to admonish fifty-year-old patients who tragically perceived the need to read with glasses! I write them points +2.0 D, and they exclaim with a fright: “No, I will not take such strong points that then I will have it in 5 years!” And in 5 years there will be what is necessary by age, that is +2.5 D. And attempts at 50 years to read with glasses +1.0 D, give only a strong headache, which is attributed to a migraine, or pressure, or nervous strain.

Another myth related to presbyopia: “Just start wearing glasses for reading - and your eyesight will immediately begin to deteriorate, and you will have to take more and more powerful glasses. It’s better that I’ll read without glasses. ”Now we already understand that near vision will deteriorate whether we wear glasses or not. This is a natural process of growing the lens (not to say - aging). And there is no need to torture yourself, flirting and hiding age. By the way, I noticed that men perceive the need for reading glasses more tragic than women. They, it turns out, even more hide their age! How many times have I heard from a man: “All right, now I’m an old man!” - just because I needed reading glasses.

Therefore, I call once again: do not be afraid of reading glasses, do not overload your eyes, do not deprive yourself of the pleasure of reading, making, embroidering, etc. If this process does not stop - why torture yourself? So, all who should - go ahead for the points!

Tanya Tanya

Hello! I am 46 years old. It became worse to see near. In optics, vision was measured: about +1. Work is connected with the computer. I do not want to start wearing glasses. I have two questions for you: 1. What is the right way to proceed with the expectation, so that age-sighted hyperopia progresses more slowly - do you already have to use glasses or while you have the opportunity not to wear them? Or does it not affect the rate of vision deterioration at all? 2. Do perforation glasses help to inhibit the development of hyperopia? If so, how often and how long should they be worn?

Hello! Age-related changes of vision begin after 40-45 and continue, as a rule, up to 60 years. With 100% vision into the distance, an average person puts on glasses + 2.0 D in 50 years and + 3.0 D in 60 years. If you do eye gymnastics regularly, you can somewhat slow down the process, but if you cancel, you will need glasses by age (at about the same numerical values ​​as usual). Punching glasses help relieve tension from the eyes, but do not treat hyperopia or nearsightedness. Can slightly improve the subjective perception of vision.

Consultation of an ophthalmologist on the topic “Age-Sightedness” is given for reference purposes only. According to the results of the consultation, please consult your doctor, including to identify possible contraindications.

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Moscow head physician ophthalmology Clinic Excimer, ophthalmic surgeon of the highest category, doctor of medical sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, a member of International Refractive Surgery Clab (USA), International Society of Ocular Trauma (Israel), International Society of Cataract’s Microsergeons (Sweden) and the Ophthalmological Society of Russia. Author of 64 publications, 8 inventions and innovations in the field of ophthalmic surgery. Conducted more than 30,000 microsurgical operations, of which more than 5,000 abroad.

Specializes in performing cataract surgery, glaucoma, retinal detachment, vitreoretinal surgery, phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation, all types of refractive surgeries (including intraocular refractive surgeries and excimer laser surgeries), corneal transplantation, reconstructive surgeries, eye surgery vasoreconstructive operations and others.


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