The number of children with myopia will increase 80% due to the use of smartphones

• April 30, 2024

In eight years the excessive use of mobile devices will have repercussions on 90 percent of the young people develop visual anomalies , of which, the 70 percent will have myopia he warned Óscar Antonio Ramos Montes , head of the race Optometry of the Faculty of Higher Studies (FES ) Iztacala .

The researcher of the UNAM He stressed that young people who spend too much time in front of phones, tablets, computers or televisions will have repercussions on their vision by 2025.

The researcher emphasized that, through their investigations, they have found cases of children from three or four years with important degrees of this visual anomaly by the use of the devices.

Today we can find children of three or four years with significant degrees of that anomaly ", lament.

 

He stressed that, in the world, close to 80 percent of children suffer some kind of error refractive , as myopia (short view ), hyperopia (farsightedness ), astigmatism or presbyopia .

Other warning signs are: squint the eyes to focus on an object, Too close notebooks Y books to read Y to write , and the tearing , which is produced by the effort.

According to Ramos, one of the most visible symptoms of myopia in children and young people is to observe if they incline the head to strive to see . 

When you suspect a visual problem, you should go to a specialist in optometry , who will determine a treatment with corrective lenses or the referral with the ophthalmologist ", he stressed.

 

It recommended to the parents of family to diminish to the maximum the use of electronic attachments or mobile devices to his children.

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