A bad habit turned into a serious illness: parents regretted giving the child a phone

A two-year-old girl developed severe myopia after her parents allowed her to play on a smartphone every day for a year.

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The girl, Xiao Man, from Jiangsu Province in China, was recently diagnosed with severe myopia after her parents took her to a doctor.

It is reported that the child began to watch the transfer on a mobile phone when she was only one year old.

It turned out that the parents did not observe a certain regime and allowed her to use the smartphone for a long period of time every day. According to them, it was the only way to silence the baby. But after a while, the girl’s parents noticed that she was squinting from the screen and frowning a lot when watching TV shows, and also rubbed her eyes.

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At first they decided that it was just a bad habit, but later they became worried and took her to a doctor.

Baby was diagnosed with severe myopia. Her parents were told that the condition is irreversible and may even worsen when she grows up.

Now the child needs glasses in 9 diopters (measuring the focusing power of the lenses necessary to correct her vision).

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A person with mild myopia registers somewhere between -0,5 and -3 diopters.

Liu Wei from the Mother and Child Service Center in Yangzhou said that the girl’s condition is related to the long and premature use of electronic devices.

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The report of the World Health Organization, published in April, recommended that children under one year of age should not be exposed to electronic screens. Children aged two to four years old can watch TV, a computer and a smartphone for no more than one hour per day.

According to data released by China's National Health Commission, the overall rate of myopia in children and adolescents in 2018 was 53,6 percent, and in high school students it was 81 percent.

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