Can Reading Glasses Hurt Your Eyes or Make Your Eyesight Worse?

Patrick DeRespinis MD Pediatric Ophthalmology | Residency: New Jersey Medical School
| Fellowship:Manahattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
Author :Super Sight for Seymour Bright
Produced by DrMDK.com

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• pediatrics
• ophthalmology
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[drmdk]

thank you for comment

[otissumnerbrown]

Dr. DeRespins again states correctly, that if you place the NATURAL EYE, in long-term near, it simply changes from "plus" to "minus" as an objective measurement. Thus "genetic" primates in the "wild" have a positive refractive STATE, and placed in a cage for seven years (the same genetic eye) will develop a negative state of from -1.5 to -5 diopters. The natural human eye does the same thing -- in my opinion. But I appreciate how difficult prevention will be.

[mkp1974]

This is a bunch of crap. Are we supposed to believe that human beings are genetically predisposed to having the most important of our senses (our eyesight) to deteriorate when we are teenagers? That just doesn't pass the bullshit test for me. The cause of nearsightedness is obvious and it has very little if anything to do with genetics. Ask yourself, do any uneducated illiterate people that that know have to wear glasses? I

[otissumnerbrown]

Again, Dr. DeRespinis is correct, if you call a negative state for the natural eye a "disorder". Then, sitting in an office, you can not get at the "root cause" (child with nose on book for years). No, you are forced to treat this negative state with a minus lens. In a medical sense, nothing else works -- except that minus lens. The only other choice is to address the issue of a pilot who is at 20/40 (about -3/4 diopter) and truly wishes to get out of it. That is possible.

[otissumnerbrown]

The term in this title needs to be clarified. The term "reading glasses" almost always means "plus lenses for reading". What Dr. DeRespinis is talking about it the use of a minus lens to clear distant vision. That type of lens is NOT a "reading glass". Thanks for your review of this issue.

[TheMagicPin]

This video says that we cannot simply just stop reading and doing near work, yes I agree, but a form of nearsightedness prevention is wearing plus lenses, to make the near work appear farther away. This would be done in order to stop the progression of nearsightedness because wearing plus lenses makes things appear farther away, so our eyes would start to adapt to seeing farther away, instead of up close.