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Health, Safety Tips:

Myopic Eye

The nearsighted or myopic eye is usually longer than the average normal eyeball. Rays of light from a distant object focus in front of the retina, or seeing coat inside fhe eye, instead of on it. Vision for Inear objects is clear but distant objects are blurred, j There is no cure for nearjsightedness. Glasses usually ! will correct the problem and permit relatively normal vision. Kven in healthy children, nearsightedness usually increases during the most active growing period because the eyes also grow larger. After full growth is attained there is usually no further reduction in vision for distance.

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