{"id":41,"date":"2026-08-19T03:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/2026\/08\/19\/myopia-in-children-is-climbing-what-actually-slows-it-down\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:55:23","slug":"myopia-in-children-is-climbing-what-actually-slows-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/2026\/08\/19\/myopia-in-children-is-climbing-what-actually-slows-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Myopia in children is climbing. What actually slows it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short-sightedness in children has roughly doubled in a generation, and it is not simply that we are testing more.<\/p>\n<p>Three things have reasonable evidence behind them. Time outdoors \u2014 around two hours a day \u2014 is the best-supported and the cheapest. Working distance matters: holding a book or a tablet closer than the length of the forearm accelerates progression. And specialist myopia-control lenses, whether spectacle or contact, slow axial elongation by a meaningful margin in most children who use them consistently.<\/p>\n<p>What does not help is waiting. Progression is fastest between about seven and twelve, so the earlier a child is measured and tracked, the more there is to protect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short-sightedness in children has roughly doubled in a generation, and it is not simply that we are testing more. Three things have reasonable evidence&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[30,29],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children","tag-children","tag-myopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-optometry-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}