For several months of 2020 and 2021, kids from all over the world no longer went to school or even played outdoors. One of the silent consequences of this compulsory isolation has been the increase in childhood myopia. Recent studies from several universities in China, Canada and Latin America agree that the main reason for the increase in this eye disease over the past year has been the lack of sunlight.
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Carolina Picotti, physician, pediatric ophthalmologist and author of a study recently published in the scientific journal The Lancet, explains to The country, that the sun’s rays release dopamine into the retina, which prevents the eyeball from stretching. “If children don’t go out into the fresh air and don’t get sunlight, their bodies don’t generate this neurotransmitter,” says the Argentine researcher. And he adds: “No artificial light can replace the sun’s rays in the generation of dopamine”
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According to Picotti, the conclusions of the work, which was attended by over 16 ophthalmologists from all regions of the South American country, show that the myopia of the participants, aged between 5 and 18, grew on average by 40% between 2019. and 2020, the year they remained in lockdown. “The rate of increase in myopia is not only very high, but also confirms the hypothesis that environmental factors, not just genetic factors, can intensify or mitigate this disease.”
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This increase in remote viewing focus problems, which is repeated in various regions of the world, is very worrying when you take into account the fact that the World Health Organization has recently estimated that by 2050 half of the world‘s population will be nearsighted. .
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