Do you have to go to the hospital to get glasses for kids?

If you are a child, you should go to the hospital, not the eyeglasses store.

Because a child's eye is more adjustable than an adult's, he or she needs to use dilating drops to relax the ciliary muscles in order to get an accurate prescription. And the optical store is not allowed to use pupil dilating drops (otherwise it is illegal to practice medicine, found to be heavily penalized).

Hospitals have professional instruments to measure the length of the eye axis, intraocular pressure, cornea, etc., which can comprehensively assess the condition of the eye to achieve as close as possible to the objective results of the examination, and clinically, it is generally believed that under the age of 10 years old (regardless of whether it is the first time to wear the glasses) or under the age of 15 years old to wear for the first time, should go to the hospital to check the prescription of optometry.

Extended information:

Precautions:

1. Doing a comprehensive eye The visual function examination is an important step in the precautions to be taken in dispensing eyeglasses. Traditional optometry, only the most basic requirements, eye hospitals to carry out medical optometry, not simply check out the degree, but also to detect a number of young people susceptible to eye disease.

2, before the prescription of optometry can understand the current most accurate refractive status. And, the correct optometry is not only to determine the degree of myopia, but also to understand the astigmatism, pupil distance and other conditions.

3, at the same time, children under 16 years of age, the first time you need to do dilated pupils, dilated pupils can only be after the optometry, the purpose of doing this is to avoid false myopia mistaken for true myopia, so that the child's nearsightedness into a real one.