Can children correct astigmatism?

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Children with astigmatism can be corrected. Astigmatism is a common eye disease, belonging to a type of refractive error. Normal is due to congenital abnormalities, or is caused by poor eye habits, such as long-term squinting to see things. Astigmatism patients will show things blurred, skewed, slight deformation and glare phenomenon, after optometry can determine the specific degree of astigmatism and astigmatism axis. Moderate to low astigmatism can be corrected by wearing glasses, while high astigmatism ordinary glasses correction effect is not good, you can consider wearing rigid contact lenses for correction. When the child is an adult, if you do not want to use eye correction, you can also do laser surgery or lens implantation surgery.

Can children correct astigmatism?



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