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Atropine eye drops - similar to the drops that the eye doctor uses to dilate your eyes during an annual exam, but at much lower concentration (0.01%).

Three treatments, about 50 percent reduction What's it like to see life in a blur? The images above approximate the same view at 20/20 (normal vision) and 20/100.ĭrag the slider left and right to see the difference. We have a medical student from UAB, who is a patient and has found it helpful.” “But we will treat people even in their 20s who are progressing. “The ideal patient is someone who is 8-12 years old, who has a need for glasses and has shown progression - that is, needing stronger glasses over time,” Pucker said. In other words, patients can end up with a final prescription that is about half as “bad” as it would be otherwise. “With some it’s 100 percent, with others it’s not as much, but 50 percent is typical,” he said. It offers three research-proven treatments, which on average reduce myopia progression about 50 percent, Pucker noted in a recent article in Optometry Times. The UAB Myopia Control Clinic opened in May 2017.

(Theories below.) But Pucker also is leading one of the only clinics in Alabama that give patients a good shot at slowing or even stopping the advance of nearsightedness. What’s going on? Researchers at UAB, including Andrew Pucker, O.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Optometry, are working feverishly to find out.

The trend is accelerating: Half of the planet will be myopic by 2050, according to a 2016 study in the journal Ophthalmology. In some countries in East and Southeast Asia, 90 percent of high schoolers are nearsighted. That’s a 32 percent increase from the early 1970s, when it was 1 in 4. In the United States, more than 1 in 3 people are nearsighted, according to the National Eye Institute. Whatever you call it, myopia is more common than ever. But we will treat people even in their 20s who are progressing.”Myopia, which means nearsightedness, comes from two Greek words meaning “close” and “eyes,” probably from the squinting that myopic patients do in order to see better. “The ideal patient is someone who is 8-12 years old, who has a need for glasses and has shown progression - that is, needing stronger glasses over time. UAB's Myopia Control Clinic offers three treatments that on average reduce myopia progression about 50 percent, said Andrew Pucker, O.D., Ph.D.