A five-year-old boy, after playing computer games on his cell phone for nearly five or six hours per day continuously for two weeks, started blinking when watching the TV, and his mother took him to the hospital. The boy, who was not previously nearsighted, was diagnosed with myopia with minus seven diopters. Fortunately, it was pseudomyopia, a temporary condition. Hung Chi-ting, chief of Ophthalmology at Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital, said pseudomyopia can develop into myopia if medical attention is not sought in good time.
Hung also stressed that overindulgence in electronic products is very likely to strain the ciliary muscles in the eyes, which can lead to myopia. Although children’s ciliary muscles are more flexible and therefore more likely to make a full recovery or to become mild myopia if treated with muscle relaxants, pseudomyopia could still turn into irreversible myopia if treatment is not given in time.
(Liberty Times, translated by Ethan Zhan )
一名五歲男童因連續兩週每天拿著手機玩遊戲近五、六個小時,日前看電視時狂眨眼,於是男童母親帶他就醫,原本沒近視的男童竟被診斷出近視高達七百度,還好是暫時的假性近視。國軍高雄總醫院眼科主任洪啟庭提醒,若未及時治療,假性近視也可能會成為真近視。
Photo: Tsai Chang-sheng, Liberty Times
照片:自由時報記者蔡彰盛攝
洪啟庭也強調,三C產品過度使用容易造成眼睛的睫狀肌緊繃導致近視,雖然幼兒睫狀肌彈性佳,可經睫狀肌鬆弛劑藥物治療,有機會恢復為沒有近視或下降近視度數,但狀況發生時若未趕緊治療,假性近視也可能成為不可逆的真性近視。
(自由時報)
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
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