Hyperopia is a plus or minus?

Hypermetropia is called an anomaly of vision, in which, when looking at distant objects, the image is not focused on the retina, but behind it. Because of this, a person sees indistinctly located objects, but, as a rule, has good long-range vision (usually age-long-sightedness or presbyopia). At the same time, with congenital forms of hyperopia, a person may have poor eyesight in general, regardless of the distance of the subject under consideration.

Causes of hyperopia

Almost all newborns suffer from hypermetropia due to the fact that the eyeball on the anteroposterior axis is too small. As the child grows, vision is normalized. But if this does not happen, talk about a congenital anomaly, which is due to the weak refractive power of the cornea or lens.

Older people know that farsightedness is a plus, not a minus or even know how to choose glasses without a prescription by the method of tests, relying on the sensations, which, of course, will lead the ophthalmologist into horror. With age, the lens loses the ability to flexibly change curvature, and therefore after 45 years of having to read while moving the book away from the eyes as far as possible.

Farsighted glasses

When we talk about pluses, we mean dioptries with farsightedness - this is a value that characterizes the degree of anomaly. Thus, with mild hyperopia, lenses are selected up to +2.0 diopters; the average degree is characterized by an indicator of up to +5.0, and a high one is more than +5.0.

If a person does not resort to treatment of anomalies of vision, which we will talk about, contact lens for farsightedness or usual glasses will help you get rid of discomfort when working with closely located objects - they are picked up only by a doctor.

How to fix hyperopia?

Modern microsurgery of the eye has many ways to restore vision. A few decades ago a breakthrough in this area was made by the method of incisions on the cornea (radial keratotomy). When microscopic incisions healed, the shape of the cornea changed, which entailed an increase in its optical power.

Now such treatment is considered risky, unpredictable and inconvenient, since healing is quite long, besides, one can not operate both eyes at once.

The most popular and proven method for today is laser correction of vision, which is carried out in one day. The laser beam corrects the shape of the cornea without penetrating into deeper layers. With a strong farsightedness resorted to the implantation of an artificial lens or actual lenses.

Doctors regard these procedures as safe and give a minimal percentage of risks, but for most patients, even 1% of the likelihood of an adverse outcome of vision correction is an argument against it. Because many simply wear glasses or lenses for farsightedness. Alternative medicine believes that this further worsens vision.

Correction of hyperopia in an inoperable way

Traditional medicine suggests taking infusions from Grasslands vine and sweet marsh as a means to stimulate vision.

In recent decades, popular non-traditional methods of combating hyperopia, myopia and even cataracts. The method was developed by the doctor of non-traditional medicine M. Norbekov. The patient is offered daily to perform joint exercises , simple exercises for the eyes, follow the posture, smile and believe that this will work. The method is subjected to multiple criticism from traditional doctors, but the network has a large number of reviews on the effectiveness of such treatment.