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Rumor Refutation：Does Wearing Glasses Make the Degree of Myopia Worse?

 Myopia is classified into true myopia and pseudomyopia. If one decides to get glasses without professional examination, pseudomyopia may progress into true myopia.

Pseudomyopia occurs when the accommodation of the crystalline lens and ciliary muscle temporarily malfunctions, causing visual images to fail to focus on the retina. This type of myopia can generally be reversed through rest or certain medical interventions.

True myopia arises due to an elongation of the axial length of the eye, causing the retina to shift backwards, resulting in visual images failing to focus on the retina. If diagnosed with true myopia, it is necessary to follow medical advice and wear suitable glasses.

Currently, no scientific research has proven that wearing glasses leads to an increase in myopia. If one's myopia continues to worsen after wearing glasses, the main reasons may include:

The eyes gradually stabilize only after reaching adulthood. The physiological elongation of the anteroposterior diameter of the eye in adolescents is also a process in which myopia deepens.

Poor eye hygiene practices, such as reading or writing too closely, for too long, reading while walking or riding, or reading in excessively bright or dim light, can easily lead to eye strain and an increase in myopia.

Temporary vision decline due to underlying eye diseases may be mistakenly diagnosed as myopia and result in the prescription of nearsighted glasses.

Inaccurate refraction can occur if one wears glasses with a higher prescription, inevitably leading to an increase in myopia. Refraction should be conducted in a hospital by professional optometrists after dilation and retinoscopy.

Failure to distinguish between true and pseudomyopia. Pseudomyopia caused by excessive eye use does not require glasses. Simply paying attention to eye hygiene can restore vision. Some parents, when their children have trouble seeing, do not take them to the hospital for standardized examination but directly give them glasses, which may turn pseudomyopia into true myopia.

If true myopia is confirmed, wearing glasses with the appropriate prescription and paying attention to eye hygiene will prevent the myopia from worsening spontaneously.

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