Can wearing glasses permanently ruin your eyesight? The ophthalmologist responds

Among patients, there is a belief that if you start wearing glasses regularly, your vision can deteriorate even faster. How justified this fear, explained the Russian ophthalmologist Anton Kazantsev, writes sb.by.

According to the doctor, the statement about the dangers of optics is a deep-seated misconception.

“Properly selected glasses are not able to impair vision,” says Anton Kazantsev. Nearsightedness (minus) or farsightedness (plus) is due to the anatomical shape of the eyeball: in nearsighted people it is physically larger than in healthy people. Farsighted people, on the contrary, shortened.”.

Glasses do not change the physical dimensions of the eye, but perform the most important function - focus the image strictly on the retina. As a result, the brain receives a clear picture, and the organ of vision disappears the incentive to further compensatory growth or pathological overstrain, the specialist notes. Thus, correct optical correction has only a positive effect and helps to maintain eye health.

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