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👁️ Are you a practitioner preparing for Myopia Awareness Week?
This year’s theme is “Screens Down, Eyes Up” (19–25 May)
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#MyopiaAwarenessWeek #ScreensDownEyesUp #OptometryUK #MyopiaManagement #PrimaryCare #MAW2025
Do you know how your child’s prescription has changed over the last year?
Tracking the pattern can help you have a more informed conversation with your optometrist.
Try the Myopia Focus Prescription Tracker:
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#MyopiaProgression #ChildVision
What is Myopia?
Myopia Focus is here to help parents understand childhood myopia, ask better questions and find the right support.
Explore our free tools, guides and specialist finder:
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#MyopiaFocus #Parents #ChildrensEyeHealth
Ortho-K is one of the better-known myopia management options, but many parents still have questions.
What are night lenses? Are they suitable for children? How do they work?
Our guide explains:
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#MyopiaManagement #OrthoK #ParentEducation
Take your child from an eyetest - you'll be glad you did. In the UK Children under 16, and under 19s in full-time education, are entitled to free NHS sight tests.
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#ChildhoodMyopia #Optometrist #EyeHealth #NHS
Low-dose atropine is one of the treatment options sometimes discussed for children with progressing myopia.
But what is it? How is it used? And what should parents know?
Start here:
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#MyopiaControl #EyeDrops #Parents
We're delighted to welcome Dr Tsiang Ung BM, FRCOphth to the Myopia Focus Advisory Committee.
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#Myopia #MyopiaManagement #ChildrensEyeHealth #Ophthalmology #Optometry
Myopia is more than “needing glasses”.
If your child is short-sighted, understanding their risk of progression can help you ask better questions at their next eye test.
Try the Myopia Focus Risk Screener:
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#MyopiaManagement #Parenting #EyeHealth
Concerned about your child’s myopia? Our best piece of advice - find a specialist who can help:
Use our map to find a myopia management specialist near you. zurl.co/xCEY5
You do not have to work it out alone.
#FindASpecialist #MyopiaManagement #Parents
Ever wondered what the world looks like to a child with myopia?
Our Vision Simulator helps parents see how different prescriptions can affect school, sport and everyday life.
Try it here:
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#MyopiaVisionSimulator #ChildrensEyeHealth
We think carefully about what our children eat. But what about what their eyes “feed on”?
Optometrist John Nguyen explores the idea of visual diet: the daily mix of light, distance, detail, movement & contrast that helps shape healthy eye development.
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Take your child from an eyetest - you'll be glad you did. In the UK Children under 16, and under 19s in full-time education, are entitled to free NHS sight tests.
zurl.co/18SWV
#ChildhoodMyopia #Optometrist #EyeHealth #NHS
Low-dose atropine is one of the treatment options sometimes discussed for children with progressing myopia.
But what is it? How is it used? And what should parents know?
Start here:
zurl.co/qiWkz
#MyopiaControl #EyeDrops #Parents
Myopia is more than “needing glasses”.
If your child is short-sighted, understanding their risk of progression can help you ask better questions at their next eye test.
Try the Myopia Focus Risk Screener:
zurl.co/ckoY4
#MyopiaManagement #Parenting #EyeHealth
Daily contact lenses can be more than a vision correction option.
Some soft contact lenses are designed specifically for myopia management in children.
Find out more in our parent guide:
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#MyopiaControl #ContactLenses #ChildrensVision
Not all glasses are made equal!.
Specialist myopia control glasses are designed not only to correct blurry distance vision, but also to help slow myopia progression in some children.
Learn more:
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#MyopiaControlGlasses #Myopia #ChildrensEyeHealth
Imagine your child wearing contact lenses overnight, then seeing clearly during the day without glasses.
This is Ortho-K.
Our guide explains how night lenses may be used in childhood myopia management.
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#OrthoK #MyopiaControl #ChildrensVision
New to myopia management?
Our Complete Guide to Myopia Control helps parents understand what myopia is, why progression matters, and what treatment options may be available.
Read the guide:
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#Myopia #MyopiaControl #ChildrensEyeHealth #MyopiaManagement
When Lily & Reuben were diagnosed with #myopia, their parents thought nothing of it!
They were both short-sighted, so of course their children were too.
But through serendipity, they would come to understand more about myopia... 🤯 Read their story here:
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Could indigo light therapy offer a new myopia control treatment?
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#Myopia #MyopiaManagement #VisionScience
A child with myopia may struggle to read the board, recognise faces at distance or follow the ball during sport.
Our Vision Simulator helps parents see why correction and management matter.
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#ChildrensVision #MyopiaAwareness
