Life has been peaceful until last June when my son, Rahul (see the photo below), complained of being unable to see the blackboard at school, incidentally on his sixth birthday on June 18, 2011. I was doubtful of a minor vision problem with him since his birth but thought of letting it correct on its own as he grew up; hence didn’t perform an eye test until then.
History of Present Illness:
I took Rahul to an ophthalmologist for an eye checkup. I was taken aback with the results and was literally on tears when the ophthalmologist informed me that Rahul has a serious vision problem and that it would have been unable for him all these days to see anything beyond 3 feet! He also warned of associated complications like retinal detachment had it been detected still late and also if Rahul pursues without glasses worn all the time hereafter. Come on, he was almost normal all these days bidding bye at school more than 30 feet away from me and was good at distinguishing distant objects when we were out on the streets! He was able to see the distant mountains. He was able to see the jet smoke and the birds flying in the sky with his naked eye. It was hard to believe that his poor vision was so severe given his activities. The doctor prescribed a pair of glasses with powers as listed below and insisted to wear them always except when sleeping and showering, so that the retina gets enough light all over it, to halt advancement of retinal deterioration.
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OD |
OS |
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| SPH | CYL | AXIS | V/A | SPH | CYL | AXIS | V/A | |
| DV | -11.0 | -0.50 | 180 | 6/18 | -8.50 | -0.50 | 180 | 6/12 |
| NV | N6 | N6 | ||||||
Dist PD RE: 25. LE: 26
Abbreviations Used Above and Their Meanings:
OD: Oculus dexter; that means right eye.
OS: Oculus sinister; that means left eye.
DV: Distant Vision
SPH: Spherical power.
CYL: Cylindrical power.
AXIS: A number between 0 and 180 degrees, and means the orientation of the astigmatism.
V/A: Visual acuity.
Dist PD: Pupillary distance while viewing distant objects. (The measurement in millimeters between both pupils.)
Rahul was a full-term cesarean section baby with normal growth and development. He was a TV addict since babyhood and would watch his favorite cartoon channels/programs on TV lying on the bed at a distance of 6 feet or less for many hours a day. As parents, we too didn’t bother because he was occupied with the TV without pestering us!
The other significant history with reference to the eyes that I would like to mention at this point is that the rate of blinking per minute for Rahul is far less than the normal rate of 10 to 15 blinks per minute.
Rahul is allergic to dust and his doctor puts him on anti-allergic medications whenever he is coughing and has runny nose. That is his pertinent medical history.
Family History:
I had a cylindrical power of -1 diopters in 1980 in my childhood at the age of 11 years when I was in the sixth grade, and it continues the same until now. No spherical power. When I was recommended by the ophthalmologist to increase the power of the glasses in the yearly follow-up visit next year by a meager 0.25 diopters, I abandoned glasses thereafter due to the fear of getting addicted to the glasses. My (younger) brother was myopic as a child, discovered when he too was in the sixth grade. He is still myopic but less severe compared to Rahul, -5 diopters in the left eye, -4 diopters in the right eye. My father had cataract in both eyes at the age of 65 which were removed with phacoemulsification and lens implanted (cataract surgery). Apart from that, none of the members either in my family or my wife’s family are known to be myopic.
Physical Examination:
I bought Rahul the prescribed pair of glasses and asked him to wear them always as suggested by the doctor. I sought a second opinion with another ophthalmologist. He too confirmed the earlier observations and said Rahul has to wear glasses lifelong! He informed that the axial length of the eyeball of Rahul is 26 mm, whereas for Rahul’s age it should be around 17.5 mm to 18 mm. Only the normal adult eyes should have an axial length of 25 mm.
Even with the glasses on, Rahul was unable to read beyond five lines on the Snellen chart. The ophthalmologist was skeptic about reversing childhood shortsightedness. He further informed that even for performing LASIK after the age of 21, the power should be stable in both eyes and should be below -10 diopters. If it is above -10 diopters, only there is the option of intraocular lens implantation, and not much is known about its long-term side-effects if any.
At the 6-month follow-up visit in December, there was improvement in Rahul’s vision. He was able to read two more lines on the Snellen chart. The retina too showed improvement according to the doctor.
Alternative Thoughts
As a medical transcriptionist, I have my own doubts here. The reasons I presume for shortsightedness which make the images fall in front of the retina are:
- The lens is thicker than normal.
- The zonules/ciliary muscles are stiff and doesn’t help in flattening the lens.
- The axial length is too high for the normal lens to focus on the retina, may be the eyeball is squeezed lengthily.
So the question in my small brain was “Is it justice by asking a patient to wear glasses, which is a temporary solution to mitigate the problem, rather than trying to reverse the cause?” “Isn’t it like taking pain killer to reduce the pain for an organ dysfunction rather than actually trying to make the organ functional?”
It is obvious that there couldn’t be any medicines to rectify shortsightedness; otherwise, the world would have been on it already. Now the question is whether there is any eye exercise or yoga that could potentially reverse the shortsightedness.
While scouring the Internet to clear this doubt, my thoughts were substantiated when I came across the research done by an ophthalmologist, William H. Bates, MD, at the turn of the 20th century in this regard and his interesting book “The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses,” originally printed in 1920.
The-Cure-of-Imperfect-Sight-by-Treatment-Without-Glasses.zip (18928 downloads )After reading the book, I encouraged Rahul to play in the sunlight whenever he can and also to gaze the first rays of the sun in the morning for a couple of minutes, when it was not so bright. However, I didn’t insist to perform other eye exercises said in the book due to Rahul’s young age, instead would encourage him to stay healthy taking all those essential nutrients and vitamins required for growth, especially for the eyes (spinach, carrot etc.). Rahul likes playing badminton and I thought to take advantage of it. I encouraged him playing without glasses so that his vision will be focused on the shuttlecock and its movements, which itself is an eye exercise. He is very good at playing without glasses.
All these contributed to improve his vision. In the latest visit to the ophthalmologist on April 9, 2012, Rahul was able to read all the lines on the Snellen chart with the glasses worn.
Conclusion:
I have presented the case of Rahul to you now. Now the pertinent question: “Can short sightedness (myopia) be cured by eye exercises as said in the William Bates method, massage, and yoga alone, without any medicines or surgical intervention?” After fitting Rahul with glasses in last June, I also decided to give Rahul a try on the William Bates method of eye exercises, massage, and yoga. While digging the Internet deep in search of an answer for our pertinent question and for further guidance and training, interestingly I found that a charity institution is providing free training and guidance on this. When I got in touch with them, I was informed that the beneficiaries should be in the age group of 7 to 40. Since Rahul was just only 6 years of age in June 2011 when I initially inquired with them, I had to wait all these days. When inquired about the trustworthiness, though ophthalmologists are not supportive to these health tips, there seemed to be a lot of beneficiaries, and people were reaching there from faraway places, from across the countries and continents in scores to avail of the free coaching classes. No campaigns, advertisements, or marketing but people are still crowding. That means there is stuff in the eye exercises and yoga, it can do the trick, because word-of-mouth recommendation is invaluable. I found a couple of my relatives’ children to have benefited and to be completely free of glasses. So the answer to our pertinent question “Can it be cured?” seems to be “YES” but only with myopia of lesser severity, may be -5 diopters or less. Though I do not expect a complete reversal in Rahul given the severity, my only intention is to bring down his eye power to the acceptable levels for the LASIK to be done, i.e., less than -10 diopters, when he is grown up. Finally I am taking Rahul to that charity institution soon after I write this post. Find the details of the charity institution in my next post.
Good to read about improvement in Rahul’s vision. All the best for the new treatment. Do let us know your experience with the charity institution (name?) and any improvement in myopia.
@Another myopic guy: Here are the details of the institution that I talked about.
Initially i was shocked and moved with the news. Will pray to God that he gets completely cured and lives his life without glasses.
please let us know the charity institution. If possible u can also sms us the details of the institution, so that we will pass it on and help others too who are in need.
Thanks Valar for including Rahul in your prayers, and I think that’s why he is making remarkable progress so far with encouraging results.
Here are the complete details of the charity institute that I talked about.
I will write a complete review about the outcome, recommended exercises etc., in my next post once Rahul gets finished up with his training sessions.
My brother too has joined the bandwagon with Rahul, and he too is benefiting at his age of 38. So I think it will be of great help for you too.
Why have all serious experiments failed to show any efficacy for the Bates method? Does this not concern you, as someone who must respect the scientific method? The problem with uncontrolled experiments with tiny samples (eg one subject) is that one can be easily misled by subjectivity and random factors.
“Suffice it should to check one grain of rice as proof of a potful of it cooking.”
Ultimately what I need is the answer whether the sample is one or a boatload.
Show me a proof that a patient with very high diopters of short sight, such as one that I mentioned here, has returned to normalcy with William Bates method; that is enough to let the whole world know that the method works and practice the method beyond doubt!
I am still practicing it on my child with full dedication but with doubts of my own. For e.g.,:
1.) You don’t have control on your own heart muscles whatever exercise you do! Doesn’t it apply the same here?
2.) Dr. Bates says there is nothing like congenital myopia, but all are acquired! Not at all true in this modern world!
3.) What if short sight is caused by greater length of the eyeball as the case here and nothing in relation to the lens, muscles or other causes of short sight?
Finally, this is a quest for truth and apparently preventing further deterioration, if possible, than a suspicion or counterargument of Bates method, that someone of the same situation is enlightened when in need.
Could you please share your number to discuss more on this topic? If you don’t like to share on this forum please email to me. Please ..
Thank you.
John
Sorry. No private discussions. I don’t share my number for privacy reasons. You may ask your questions/doubts here.
My son has very high myopia -12&-15 due to increase of eye length he is very young only6 years old what can I do
Follow your doctor’s advice promptly.
Sorry for asking the phone number. Could you please exactly give bullet points that you worked for your son to improve his vision. I wish and pray for your son to get the best vision. My son is about 5 years and has same issue. God bless him.
He has been advised to do some 10 or so eye exercises. I wrote about them briefly in another post, a review of Bates eye exercises, and the initial outcome after practicing the exercises. You may read it. Feel free to get all of your doubts cleared.
Thanks for your prayers.
Meanwhile, if you think your son has serious vision problems, take your son to an ophthalmologist to wear glasses until your son becomes 7 years of age and mature enough to understand and practice the exercises. Retina needs light to keep its cells alive. So, wearing a glass until your son practices Bates eye exercises ensures that light falls on the retina evenly and keeps the retina alive.
I had -4.00 six months ago, currently at 20/20 with a -2.50 prescription. Excellent, excellent rehab program with Frauenfeld Clinic. They are in Austria but have an online program that I’m participating in.
Excellent. Keep trying. Come back and detail us your improvement step by step, so that someone will benefit from your experience. Good Luck.
erm..Jake mind introduce to me the online program u r mentioning?
http://www.MyopiaChallenge.com
Also, as for Benny … Alex’ site has links to all sorts of studies showing how hyperopic growth is possible, and has been observed.
It’s not ‘pressure within the eye’, either that cause the axial length increase. Pressure, where does this idea come from? It is the eye adjusting for close up focal plane to allow the ciliary muscle to relax from excessive close-up strain.
Same focal plane for close-up view: full ciliary contraction, or longer eyeball. Compensating for strain, the eye gets longer.
That is the difference between optometrist and ophthalmologist though … one is an eye MD, and the other, is not.
Jake, just wondering how you are going with the Frauenfeld Clinic rehab? How many visits to the clinic did you have before doing the online rehab? Thanks
Really well. 20/20 most days, with good lighting, no glasses.
I’m putting together a site reviewing all the programs I tried, and what I found. It’ll take a few months yet.
I am a developmental optometrist and I work on stabilizing myopia through vision training. My take on the Bates Method is that it is essentially methods to get the focusing system to get more relaxed. The more you can relax it, the more the pressure within the eye stays low so that the eyeball does not stretch longer. As far as I can tell it is not possible to get the eyeball to decrease in length once stretched out–imagine trying to “un-stretch” a balloon after it’s been blown up a few times. Bates also does not look at the binocular aspects of myopia–whether the two eyes work as a team together properly.
Raj, im trying to understand something.. in the process of these exercises.. must i do it with my glasses on or off?
You are supposed to do the exercises without glasses and as much as possible try avoiding the glasses whenever and wherever possible. However, if you would like to wear the glasses, you are free to wear it except when exercising.
Thanks for the detail. Hope you don’t mind another question. Would wearing glasses make my vision back to its previous state after I have improve my vision little by little in future?
You may need to test your eyes at regular intervals and change the glasses according to the power of your eye in due course.
After doing the exercises, will the eyesight be cured or not?
Probably yes with minor eye power. Read the details in this post. Read it from top to bottom including the reader comments at the bottom.
I think laser surgery would be best to cure shortsightedness.After this surgery we can use william bates method so that the eyesight would be maintained very well and what is your opinion about this.
At present, LASIK (Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis, commonly referred to as laser eye surgery) is not done for powers above -10. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that there won’t be any recurrence.
Raj,
I am also in a similar situation as yours with my 5 yr old son. With your experience can you please let me know with what rate the myopia increases as child grows?
Anil,
So far the myopia has been stable or less by 0.5 diopters for my son since it was diagnosed 1-1/2 years ago when he was 6 years of age. He is 7-1/2 years of age now. I am still observing him in a wait and watch mode, encouraging him to look at early morning sunrays, both with bare eyes and with glasses, probably to arrest the growth of the eyeball and progression of myopia. It also helps the whole area of retina to get a glimpse of sunlight daily to keep the retina alive and vigor. A child grows until 21 years of age and the possibilities are there that the eyeball too can grow until then. Depending on the eyeball growth or stagnation, the rate of increase of myopia too can vary from person to person.
What is the power for your son? Ask your ophthalmologist the length of the eyeballs of your son. Note it as a baseline to compare hereafter if need arises. Encourage your son to play outdoors daily in the sunlight because sunlight has a great effect in arresting the growth of the eyeballs and myopia.
What is your son’s power at present? Did he undergo any change in power? Thank you!
Same as in the table above.
Thanks Raj. He is 5 yrs and has -6.5. Your thread has been encouraging. I would also like to visit the same institution next year or so.
No doctor has yet told me the eye lengths; but I will check this next time.
Hi,
How much time do you make rahul look at the morning sun rays with and without glasses.Thanking you in advance.
15 minutes each, with and without glasses. However, nowadays I am not insisting him in the morning but I am encouraging him to play in the sunlight in the evening from 4 pm until it is dark in a nearby ground along with other kids. The intention is the same, eyes get direct and indirect sunlight exposure, but in a way the kid doesn’t get bored.
please give the charity institution name and address.
Find it here.
hi,
I am so happy to have found your site.my five year old daughter has been prescribed glasses and I was researching the bates method and whether anyone from india has tried this with their children.after searching a lot I landed on your site and am happy to have found it.my daughter has been prescribed glasses for +0.0 +2.0 90axis for both eyes.so no myopia or hyperopia but pure astigmatism.can you please tell me if that can be cured if I take her to Pondicherry at 7 yrs of age or do they see just the cases for myopia.i have already started her on palming and sunning for last 10days and was thrilled to see how your son prescription has improved.can you please give me any information about my daughters condition.any small info would be helpful.thank you sincerely
Hi Vinodhini,
Felt sorry when I read about your daughter’s eye defect.
Let me tell you frankly. As far as I know, the people there at the Pondicherry ashram are not professionally qualified in ophthalmology. They are just Bates’ propagandists. I think they do not even have a formal education in ophthalmology/optometry. As far as I spoke to them, they are just chiropractors.
To my knowledge, regular astigmatism is mostly related to the irregular shape of the cornea or the least sometimes to the curvature of the lens. Let me hope in your daughter’s case it is not irregular astigmatism which is caused by a corneal scar/trauma. Usually astigmatism occurs along with myopia or hyperopia but you are lucky. Mild astigmatism can change as a child grows and may decrease over time. Make yearly visits to your eye doctor and keep watching until the child is 19-20 years of age. Once it is stabilized when the child has grown up, you have the option of corrective surgery like LASIK.
Whereas myopia and hyperopia are more related to the irregular shape or the power of the lens of the eye. In my son’s case, it is axial myopia, an increase in the eye’s axial length. At the age of six, the axial length of his eyeball was equal to that of an adult’s! Coincidentally, today is his eighth birthday. Two years since we first diagnosed his eye defect. The chiropractors at Pondicherry said to eat carrot, spinach, blah blah blah, which has got nothing to do with decreasing the axial length or halting the growth of the eyeball. So thoroughly get to know what all these terms mean and what is the underlying problem. Whatever the problems of your eyes are, the people at Pondicherry will teach you only a standard set of exercises, whether it is nystagmus or astigmatism or myopia or hypermetropia. I found mild cases of myopia, say -1.0 or so, getting cured practicing Bates’ method. The major cases had a -1.0 degree or less reduction in power, as it was with my son. As the power is beyond -10 in my son’s case, I do not have even the option of a corrective surgery as of now. May be if technology advances after 12 years or so once he is in his 20s, I may have the luck of retiring his glasses.
A year after we are back from Pondicherry, his power has not worsened but stable, and he is able to read the last line of the Snellen chart with glasses worn, which he was unable to do last year. Note that he stopped doing Bates’ exercises 1-2 months after we were back from Pondicherry. However, he played in the sun from 4 to 6 or 7 in the evening daily in the last one year.
I feel yours is not a case for extreme worry but just a matter of time and patience. Hence don’t blindly follow Bates method for astigmatism and hope for remedy. Let her grow up doing usual activities as we did in our childhood like playing in the sun etc., and you decide the course of action as it evolves. Good luck.
dear raj,
thank you very much for your reply and a belated happy birthday to your son.i guess its regular astigmation only cause the doctor did not mention otherwise.so i’ll wait n watch for now.i sincerely hope and pray your sons prescription comes down cause I know how heart breaking it is to see your kid go through this.thank you once again.
With all well wishes, blessings, and prayers from people like you, let me hope everything happens for good. Thanks for the kind words.
Dear Raj,
Thanks for your detailed information. I read the complete messages. My daughter have -3.5 in both eyes. Last 3 years she is using the glasses. She started with -2.5 and every year check up it increasing -.5 and now she reaches -3.5. I have read some more books all insisting about the morning sunlight before 9 am and after 4 pm; eye excersise etc. Is it worth to visit Pondichery to attend the one week classes or do you advice any other best solutions on your experience.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Sivakumar
Hi Sivakumar,
I came up with a review on my experience. You may go through it.
You didn’t mention the age of your daughter, whether she is growing up or an adult, because changes in eyeball dimensions are bound to happen in the growing stage. Anyway, since the power is in the lower range, it is difficult to make a call on not to take your daughter there. If she is 7 or above, and if you have time and patience and can afford the travel and stay for a week of vacation, you may try a chance. Perseverance in doing the exercises even after returning back is the key factor for desirable results.
Yes, sunlight can do wonders if applied properly. So far I have been able to stall the progression by doing whatever I have discussed in the three posts (one, two, and three) on this blog but I couldn’t reverse the power to normalcy. Hence I am unable to suggest a best solution as I too am researching like you in this subject! The fact is that we can try anything ourselves but since these are concerned with our children’s eyes, the limitations are many.
Feel free to share your experience for the benefit of others if you are successful in any method. Good luck for your daughter and my prayers are with her.
Dear Raj,
Thanks for your detailed explanation. My daughter is 13 years old. Let’s prey for all children who are facing this due to present life style – less sun exposure in the accommodation; food style; more computer/tv/ipad usage; more indoor activity etc. Your information sharing is very interesting and very useful for the society. Thanks for your time and sharing your experience to the society which gives an idea to the parrents.
Regards,
Sivakumar
Rahul will improve, no doubt about, as Mr. Sanjay Pandit said in FB, with you as his dad, things will only get better….just hang on bhai :)
He got/is getting better with -1 reduction in his powers so far. Thank you Dhiraj.
Hello raj…
My son is just 4 months old n wen he was born i noticed that he doesnt make eye to eye contact…so i took him to an opthamalogist…all the test were done n he was diagnozed high myopia with -24 in both eyes…n the reason which dr told us is coz of his big eyeball size…i read about ur child…i can understand ur condition very well as my son’s eye ball size is 26 mm…so now i m really worried coz dr told me that there is no way out thatv can control the eye ball size n it will increase wid age n even the eyesight will get worsen…so can u just guide me wat shud i do…i have got his specks made but the prob is he is too young to handle it..if possible can u plz call me on this number….9454970666…my name is mrs pooja.
First let me make it clear that I am neither a doctor nor an ophthalmologist, and I am in no way connected to The School For Perfect Eyesight. My son is a beneficiary of their program, and I shared here on my blog my experiences with the training given by the School. I am just a medical transcriptionist, or you can say a secretary to a doctor. As far as I know, these eye exercises can help people with a myopia of -5 or less.
To my knowledge, there is no way to physically correct an already grown eyeball either surgically or with eye exercises. The best alternative you can try is to prevent further growth with age by allowing the child to play in the sunlight.
In my son’s case, we are performing his eye checkups once in a year at an eye hospital near by. The power has so far stabilized or come down by a few points. Soon after we were back from the School for Perfect Eyesight, he stopped doing the eye exercises as he found the repetitive exercises to be boring. We too didn’t insist. We are only encouraging him to play outdoors in the evenings once he is back from his school and to play the whole day outdoors during his vacations. He is very much happy with that.
In your son’s case, 4 months is too young to handle any regimen. Keep following your ophthalmologist’s recommendations. Do regular followups as he advises, and see if the power is improving, stabilizing, or deteriorating, and act accordingly as advised by him.
Furthermore, I am curious to know if your marriage was within your close relations; i.e., if your husband is a close relative of yours or you are no way related to your husband before marriage. Because, sometimes congenital defects are hereditary in nature, hence thought of asking you.
Dear raj,
Thanks for sharing the information i just want u to tell u that i and my husband were no way related to each other before marriage.One of my son’s dr asked me the same question.i just want to know that wat are the measures you r taking with your son to stabilize his power…just the sunlight or is there any other thing which i should try?and one thing more how does ur son manage in school..is he able to attend school properly?see the blackboard with the help of specs?is he growing up like a normal kid or he feels insecure because of his eyesight?iand wat is his eye sight power with such big eyeballs?i m just eager to know these things coz my child is going to go through the same phase in the coming years.i have even got his stem cells saved by life cell company..i just telling you this so that if you are going to get any information regarding treatment of myopia through use of stem cells …you can share with us…!!!and once again i would like to thank you that you are really helping parentsn giving them guidelines who have a myopic child..the information shared by you is really significant.
First of all, you have to know that ours is a peculiar problem with overgrown eyeball having an axial length equal to that of a grownup adult, 26 mm, and nothing related to vitamin deficiency. You will get plenty of free advice from any layman you encounter to give your child carrots for carotene, plenty of fresh vegetables, legumes etc., however, vitamin insufficiency is not the problem here.
The only best solution out there is to contain the eyeball growth by any possible mean until the kid becomes an adult. I am afraid eye exercise, food, or medication has got anything to do with that, except a slight change in lifestyle, suntan! Researches so far show that sunlight is the only deterrent to myopia or perhaps even a retardant to eyeball growth.
Rahul is a normal kid with all his age-related mischievousness, physique, talkativeness, love, alertness, mentality etc. I never restrict him on anything except remaining in front of TV or computer, or playing with phone for prolonged hours. I will be more than happy if he plays outdoors even in hot summer, provided his mom is taking care to supplement him with fluids. Apart from that I am not taking any extraordinary measure. Here is his eye score as on date and here is his first eye score.
Studies have shown that kids with myopia are usually brilliant in studies, especially math. So far, I couldn’t find any such extraordinary brilliance in him. With the herculean teaching efforts put by his mother, he remains in the top three slots of the class that has a strength of 25!
At home, he can even remain without glasses. He can read and write without glasses by keeping the book a bit closer than we normally do. With his glass on, he can even sit in the last bench of the class and see the board or even participate in sports. However, we request the class teachers every year to seat him in the front row so that he doesn’t lose confidence or acquires disturbed thoughts because of his glasses/eyesight. The doctor too recommended to seat him in the front row so that he doesn’t have to strain his eyes even slightly. Note that rounded or oval glasses with full frame would look ugly and thick for his power. So we ordered for him rectangular glasses with just the upper rim and it looks more or less like a normal glass. Thus we ensured he doesn’t feel like wearing an awful glass.
The only problem when he is outdoors without glasses is that he can’t see distant objects, and that might pose a danger especially on road. Note that he was without glass at school until he finished his UKG. We took him to an ophthalmologist only at the beginning of the first standard.
Regarding stem cells, I have no idea how it could be useful to regenerate or replace an eye with a new, perfect one! If you have any, please enlighten us.
Dear raj,
Thanks for the advice and i will definetely take measures which you have mentioned in ur post.all the very best for your child n may god bless him.In future if i will come accross any information regarding treatment through stem cells i will surely post it on ur blog.
Regards
Pooja
hello #raj sir….i am very depressed due to my high myopia in my both eyes with both cylindrical and spherical power……..presently i am 18 and i have -6.75 power in one eye and 7.25 power in another ( including cylindrical power)……i have taken help from internet regarding how to cure myopia and i have seen that baba ramdev has suggested anulom vilom pranayama to cure myopia ….can you tell me that can anulom vilom pranayama and pressing accupressure points in hands cure my eyesight ??????and from where can i get the proper bates eye exercises because nowadays there a lot of fake publications ……i want to bring down my power below -6 in 2.5 years because after that i have to pass the medical visual acuity test of public sector companies..so i am very depressed ……..plz help me sir
Please do not treat your son with LASIK. Search for the problems associated with it. Anyone who performs it, surely gains back myopia after 1 or 2 year and probably worser. I’ve heard it from people close to me and it is on the net too. I feel Bates method is much more trustful than LASIK and he is so young, he can adapt I guess. Pray for the best. Lots of love for your son.
I will not take him for LASIK. Moreover, his eye power is beyond the acceptable limit for LASIK.
Let us see what new technology comes into existence 7 or 8 years from now when he turns 21, into an adult, when the growth of the eye would have been over.
Thank you for the regards.
Hi,
What is your opinion about “If Myopic, does wearing the glasses stop the progression or increases it ? Or is it not dependent on the factor if you are wearing the glasses all the time or not ?”
I know that not wearing the glasses does not cure or stop the myopia, but does wearing the glasses increases it? (as claimed in some studies calling it lens induced myopia ) ?
Does glasses do anything other than there are more thinks we can see more clearly ? or they have a inherit effect on any physiological development like cause an elongation of the axis or changing the focal plane ?
I don’t think glasses can halt, alter, or progress the biological process. Can spectacles stop the eyeballs from growing? No. It cannot. Growth is a biological process. A glass is just a temporary aid outside the body only to correct the light rays to make the rays fall on the retina. Glass is not a cure at all. It only aids the eyes from not getting strained because of the myopia. A real cure should correct the defect in the biological process in the body.
Why does myopia only increases naturally and doesn’t decrease? As you said, the size of the eye ball increases when you grow for everyone(myopic or not). If you are not myopic, the size of the ball increases perfectly aligned with your body and you never become myopic, but why does for myopic people, the size of eye ball increases more compare to actual required for your body size and the gap only increases and never comes down?
Is there something called “lens induced myopia” ? – Myopia caused by wearing glasses and your eye elongates because of that ? as claimed by few theories.
Just wanted to get your opinion , thanks …
Hi Raj,
Today I found a ray of hope from your blog. Praying wholeheartedly for all those kids suffering from Myopia. I can feel the feelings of all those parents as my kid too have myopia. I feel pity for them to wear glasses in such a tender age.
I was so depressed all these days when my daughter was diagnosed with myopia ( -2.5 in Right eye and -1.75 in LE ) . She is just 4 years old and spent my nights sleepless ,as I was pondering about the future. She hardly watches TV . No mobile nor tab . Still she developed shortsightedness.
Your blog with all the necessary links and reviews are and will be helping people . I would just like to thank you for sharing all these and will definitely take her once she turns 7. I am giving her carrots, spinach daily. Please letme know any other tips I need to include in my routine to reduce her number. Her father have glasses(myopia) , I dont have any glasses . A million Thanks again raj
Hi,
My daughter is aged 6 years 3 months and she has myopia with -3.5 (sph -0.5 and cyl -2.5).
Is the Aurobindo Ashram strictly following the minimum age of 7 years or can I check with them for appointment now?