Show Myopia Is Not Just A Simple Eye Ailment A father in was His son had degenerative the boy's eyesight was failing so fast that blindness I am the father all ophthalmologists will tell the anxious is nothing you can do about THE case of the Bethesda boy is not There are an estimated one million children in America with similar commonly known as is not a simple in its degenerative eyesight steadily and despite milk-bottle-thick lenses the objects the becomes increasingly blurred and AN estimated one-third of the American public some 68 million persons suffer from and about 3 percent of these have or Yet little is known about no adequate research has been done in the United If your child has should he be allowed to watch If how There are no scientific Some doctors restrict TV others think it makes little AND WHAT about school Should a child with myopia read much or Most doctors agree reading should be done only under the best lighting but many hold that the amount of reading doesn't matter Foreign researchers are more believing that excessive work increases the danger of further damage to the Such was the jungle of uncertainty into which the Bethesda father stumbled when his son's eyes began to An having had eye problems of his own in his he went to the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda and read up on HIS layman's mind was impressed by reports of a treatment used by Seymour of Gostin treated eyes with drops of a used in-conjunction with But when the father called the attention of ophthalmologists in the Washington area to Gostin's of them have proved too busy even to discuss and the few with whom I have discussed it have agreed in voting a lack of confidence in this or any other drug IT WAS at this on February that the father wrote the Myopia International Research Foundation in New asking for Were research reports available that might be used to convince his skeptical |