Explaining Nearsightedness
Myopia is when the eyes focus incorrectly, making far objects appear blurred.
If you are shortsighted, it means that you will see targets close by (reading a book) perfectly, however you cannot look at an object further away, without the image smearing. So you may find that you squint your eyes to help focus better. In fact, the technical term for near sightedness orginates from the Greek words that mean shut eye.
A shortsighted individual can easily read the Jaeger eye chart (the chart for near reading), but finds the Snellen eye chart (the chart for distance) tough to read. This fuzzy vision results when the visual image is focused ahead of the retina, rather than directly on it.
Nearsightedness is caused by the actual length of the eye being longer than the optical length. So you often see this in a rapid growing eye in a child undergoing rapid growth. When a individual’s growth stops - around the mid twenties - they tend to be less nearsighted. If the actual length of the eye is too large, the light rays focus too soon and the image becomes cloudy. So, the times of rapid growth are the times when people are most likely to become myopic.
So whilst young people are the most likely to get Shortsightedness. It happens in equal numbers between boys and girls. If there is family history, then somepeople are most likely to have it.
If you are shortsighted, then you are likely to need to the local opticians and see whether I could get prescription spectacles online. Just go to an actual optician for the prescription and request a copy of the prescriptions.












