It is necessary to care for sight since the earliest childhood. And when the child goes to school, the question of maintaining his sight has to be one of the main for parents therefore load of eyes at this age is very big.
Instruction
1. The day regimen will be one of the main factors helping to keep sight for the child of school age. When the child goes to bed and gets up in certain time, normally gets enough sleep, walks during the day and is engaged in another matters according to the schedule, risk to lose health even with big school loading for it decreases. It is ideal if at school of occupation, meaning load of eyes, are combined with the lessons weakening for eyes – music, physical education, choreography. At elementary school it is possible to ask the teacher to do obligatory exercises for eyes with the pupils though usually it also is so included in school lessons.
2. At home it is impossible to allow the school student to sit long time at the computer and the TV. The general time behind the screen during the day should not exceed 2 hours for children of school age. It is necessary to equip correctly a workplace for the school student. Light from a lamp or from a window has to fall directly or at the left, furniture it is necessary to select convenient, to watch that the child kept a correct posture during performance of lessons.
3. The distance from eyes to the book or a notebook has to be not less than 30-35 cm, it is better to establish textbooks on a support with a convenient inclination. Everyone half an hour it is necessary to take a break in reading, carrying out exercises for eyes, it is better not to read lying or at bad lighting. It is impossible to allow the child to read by the light of a small lamp under a blanket or to play on the phone in the dark.
4. It is very important to organize healthy nutrition for children of school age, to fill meals of useful vitamins and minerals for eyes. Their large number contains in fresh bilberry, carrots, currant. It is necessary to include in a power supply system of the school student a large number of cottage cheese, greens, cod liver, seafood, haricots, olive oil. It is better to exclude too salty and sated with spices dishes from a diet of the school student.
5. Do not forget to show the child to the ophthalmologist even if pupils undergo inspections in school. Usually school students prefer to suppress problems with sight, being afraid of sneers of peers. But it leads to a bigger aggravation of a problem and decrease in sight. At school and teenage age the sight can worsen very quickly. If it is recommended to child to wear glasses, do not scorn this doctor's advice. Points reduce load of eyes, relax them and allow to stop deterioration in sight and also to see more comfortable.