Myopia Control Clinic London

The Myopia Control Clinic is for children with myopia (short-sightedness).

In Europe during the 1920s, the incidence of myopia was just below 20% of the population. Now, it has exceeded 30%.

The current World Health Organisation prediction is that by 2050, half of the world’s population will be myopic.

Research shows that young children who use special eye drop instilled once a day have a significant reduction in the growth of their eyes. We offer Atropine 0.01% drops, which are safe and effective.

Additionally, My-iClinic offers a full range of medical services and lifestyle practices to help combat myopia in children at any age.

The use of Atropine 0.01% eye drops each night, before going to bed, vastly slows down the progression of myopia.

The efficacy of this measure is very well established. It is a safe procedure and, due to the low dosage, there is no history of side-effects.

Research has also shown that correcting the child’s vision with special multifocal contact lenses also slows the worsening of myopia.

At My-iClinic, we encourage the use of multifocal contact lenses for shortsighted children as they are better than glasses in slowing the progression of myopia.

The myopia control program is based on current research and is continuously updated as new evidence emerges.

The programme involves three steps:

Step 1: Adopt an emmetropic lifestyle.
Step 2: Correct your vision with multifocal contact lenses.
Step 3: Use Atropine 0.01% eyedrops daily.

What is an emmetropic lifestyle?

Emmetropia is the state of having normal vision without the need for glasses or contact lenses. An emmetropic lifestyle has the following features:

• The person is outdoors in unfiltered daylight for a minimum of two hours a day. Sunlight is protective and especially at the blue end of the spectrum. It’s the one scenario where exposure to UV is a positive thing.
• Avoiding prolonged close work such as reading or looking at brightly illuminated screens. Prolonged uninterrupted close work is believed by most researchers to promote elongation of the eyeball. A useful rule is that for every twenty minutes of reading one should look at the far distance for twenty seconds. The far distance means more than six meters.

• Slows the progression of shortsightedness
• It’s safe and easy
• There are no side effects

This is the only treatment programme that has shown to be effective in reducing the rate of worsening childhood shortsightedness.

The programme slows down the progression of myopia and reduces the risk of blindness later in life.