Zeiss optics： early screening is an important part of preventing and controlling juvenile myopia

"Myopia" has become an "epidemic disease" affecting teenagers in China. How to prevent and control juvenile myopia? On February 22nd, at the 19th (Shanghai) International Glasses Exhibition, the relevant person in charge of the international optical brand "ZEISS" shared Zeiss’s knowledge and practice in the field of prevention and control of juvenile myopia.

According to the latest research report of the World Health Organization, the number of myopia patients in China is as high as 600 million, which is almost half of the total population of China. Among them, the myopia rate of primary school students has reached 45.7%, and the myopia rate of adolescents ranks first in the world.

In August 2018, the Ministry of Education and other eight departments issued the "Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Myopia among Children and Adolescents", which clearly stated that from this year, prevention and control of myopia will be included in the performance appraisal of local governments, and prevention and control of myopia among children and adolescents will become a national strategy.

Most children’s myopia is caused by axial myopia, which is axial myopia. Zeiss Changle lens with standard monofocal lens can help to restrain children’s axial elongation and delay the development of myopia.

"Improve parents’ awareness of myopia and help parents build knowledge about preventing myopia." Dr. Matthias Metz, CEO of Zeiss Consumer Optics Business (Dr. Mai Zhiyuan) believes that this is the first thing to do in the prevention and control of juvenile myopia at present.

What should parents do to prevent and control children’s myopia?

Founded in Jena, Germany in 1846, Zeiss has been deeply involved in the field of optics for 173 years. The company has four business departments: semiconductor manufacturing technology, research and quality technology, medical technology and vision care/consumer optical products. Zeiss has been committed to using professional optical technology to improve the visual quality of human beings, and provides a three-stage vision solution for adolescents with myopia and many eye diseases, including active prevention, effective management and accurate correction.

Dr. Matthias Metz, CEO of Zeiss Consumer Optics Business (Dr. Mai Zhiyuan)

To delay juvenile myopia, Zeiss Optics hopes that through its own efforts, all sectors of society can understand the causes of myopia and the prevention and control methods. Among them, Zeiss Optics believes that parents play an important role. What prevention and control knowledge should parents master? Dr. Matthias Metz (Dr. Mai Zhiyuan) specifically emphasized three aspects.

First of all, parents should know that myopia is not a problem that can be solved in a short time. Secondly, it is necessary to understand the causes of myopia and myopia deepening. Thirdly, for children who are already nearsighted, they should wear a pair of suitable glasses. Children and adults have different concepts of glasses. When choosing glasses, children will first consider the beauty, and it is easy to ignore whether the lenses and frames are suitable. This requires parents to guide their children. When choosing glasses, they should first focus on the choice of lenses. After professional fitting steps, they should choose the appropriate frame that fits the lenses.

In addition to genetic factors, improper lifestyle is also an important reason for the rising myopia rate of teenagers. "Thought attaches importance to and behavior ignores." Peng Wei, president of Zeiss Optics in China, thinks this is the status quo of most parents. On the surface, most parents agree that their children’s eyesight is very important. When they learn that their children are nearsighted, their parents will be very anxious, but when they get home, they have not taken any action to change it. He believes that we need to educate our parents that myopia is not a short-term problem. Electronic products are not the solution to manage naughty children when they are noisy. Only by managing the behavior of parents can we manage the behavior of children.

Peng Wei, President of Zeiss Optics China

"Early screening for potential causes of myopia is an important part of preventing and treating myopia. Most parents go to the hospital when they find that their children’s vision is abnormal, but myopia has already formed. " Peng Wei stressed that it is not right for parents to ignore children who are not nearsighted. After the child is 2 years old, he should have an eye examination regularly, not only to record the naked eye vision, but more importantly, to detect the axial length; For children with a family history of high myopia or high-risk factors, it is necessary to review them regularly and intervene in a targeted manner.

If the child is nearsighted, wear glasses correctly and keep matching between eyes and glasses, so as to effectively control the degree of myopia. Many parents are worried that their children will not be able to take them off after wearing glasses, and that their eyeballs will be deformed. They will not wear glasses for their children in early myopia, or wear them in stages. Such a wrong response will lead to serious consequences. Peng Wei said that whether children should wear glasses for a long time depends on the type of lenses. If it is a daily frame glasses, you can’t see clearly when you take it off. If you don’t wear it, it will accelerate eye fatigue and lead to vision growth. For glasses with special functions, you should listen to the doctor’s advice.

Take care of teenagers’ eyes with a holistic solution.

Since 1912, Zeiss has been integrating the specialties of medicine and ophthalmology. The professional advantages enable Zeiss to provide customers with the overall solutions needed in the field of eye health and vision care, including the overall fitting equipment, lens recommendation, digital ecosystem, professional training and education, and innovative market support programs. Among them, the Zeiss visual experience solution owned by Zeiss brings consumers a more accurate, comfortable and comprehensive fitting experience through professional fitting steps.

Zeiss refractive analyzer can detect the vision level under different pupil diameters.

In 1921, Zeiss took the lead in designing and producing axisymmetric lenses, and then continuously produced excellent products representing the trend of ophthalmic optics. For the success in the field of optometry, Zeiss believes that this is the result of continuous innovation. Zeiss spends more than 10% of its income on R&D every year, with nearly 30,000 employees worldwide, of whom more than 10% work in R&D positions.

Zeiss optics has always contributed to the prevention, management and correction of myopia in adolescents. In terms of active prevention, since 2009, more than 4 million "children’s refractive development files" have been established with the help of Zeiss Optics to track and protect children’s eye health and promote the advancement of myopia prevention. Since 2017, Zeiss Optics has been actively promoting the prevention and control of myopia among young people, calling on young people to exercise outdoors for 2 hours every day, and carrying out nearly 100 optometry services nationwide to bring high-quality and accurate fitting experience to young people.

In effective management, Zeiss Optics, relying on the accumulation of optometry technology for a hundred years, has invested heavily in the product research and development of teenagers to curb the further development of myopia. Zeiss Optics provides personalized vision solutions for teenagers, and designs high-quality single-lens with wear resistance and easy cleaning, Zeiss Little Naughty Lens, Zeiss "Love Motion" package, as well as functional lenses designed for Asian teenagers to help teenagers manage myopia, such as Zeiss Growth Lens and Zeiss Growth Lens.

Zeiss showed the latest "black technology equipment"-VISUFIT 1000, a three-dimensional positioning and fitting system, at this international spectacle exhibition. Nine high-definition cameras can get 180-degree personalized optical data of teenagers through one shot.

In precise correction, based on professional Zeiss optometry equipment and standardized eight fitting steps, teenagers can get accurate and comfortable fitting experience to meet their individual needs. Among them, Zeiss refractive analyzer can provide scientific and professional visual optometry for teenagers and generate depth analysis map for teenagers’ vision. In addition, Zeiss also actively carries out the training of optometry industry personnel and provides high-quality and high-standard optometry courses. In the past three years, Zeiss has trained about 90,000 optometrists and other optometrists.

In addition, Zeiss Optics also pays attention to ultraviolet protection, giving young people long-term and high-quality eye care. By adding Zeiss UV dual protection technology to the transparent resin lens, the wearer can enjoy the clear vision of the transparent lens and the ultraviolet protection effect like sunglasses.

From product vendors to solution providers, Zeiss Optics hopes to continue to help parents, schools, hospitals and society pay attention to the problem of myopia among teenagers in the future, popularize how to prevent and control myopia, provide scientific optometry equipment and suitable lenses, and make continuous efforts to delay myopia among teenagers.