HYPEROPIA TREATMENT

Hyperopia is a condition of the eye in which light is focused behind, instead of on the retina with accommodation being at rest. But, due to this accommodative effort for distant vision, people may complain asthenopic symptoms while constant reading. Some hypermetropes can see clear at distance, but near vision may be blurred due to insufficient accommodation. For this reason, this defect is referred as farsightedness. If the hypermetropia is high, there will be defective vision for both distance and near

 What are the Types of Hyperopia?

If we classify the types of hyperopia in general, three clinical types can be mentioned; Axial hyperopia, Curvature hyperopia, Refractive hyperopia

1 - Axial Hyperopia

The most common type is axial hyperopia. The anterior-posterior axis of the eye is smaller than normal. A shortness of 1 millimeter in the anteroposterior axis can cause approximately 3 diopters of hyperopia.

The anterior-posterior axis of the eye is 17.9-18 mm at birth in boys and 17.7-17.8 mm in girls, reaches 23.2 millimeters in boys at the age of 3 and 22.5 millimeters in girls. Then, until the age of 15, the elongation of the anterior-posterior axis shows a much less increase speed than the first years and generally stops at these ages. It is observed that the growth of the eyeball in the first years after birth is much faster.

Depending on the genetic predisposition in some people, eyeball elongation may not occur as normal. In these cases, axial hypermetropia is observed.