How can we promote safety in orthokeratology?
How can we best promote safety in orthokeratology (OK) wear? Many OK lens related incidents are due to poor lens handling and hygiene processes.1 Here is a case described by ...
Tag: Case studies
Communicating with parents who insist on undercorrection
What are parents’ perceptions toward myopia? McCrann et al1 surveyed 329 parents and found that 46% of parents considered that myopia presented a health risk to their children, while an ...
When myopia management is not working after COVID-19 home confinement
COVID-19 became a global pandemic in 2020 and spurred governments to impose home confinement in many countries. Eye care practitioners were mostly spared the full brunt of the manifestations of ...
Contact lens fitting for an anxious child
Can an anxious child cope with contact lens forms of myopia management? The answer is YES. Here is an inspiring case study about myopia management for a child with ADHD ...
Clinical Leader Case Study: The reluctant child and contact lenses
Patient background This case involves a 12-year-old white British child with progressive myopia who could not be persuaded to try contact lenses for a couple of years. He cowered when ...
Clinical Leader Case Study: Transitioning from soft contact lenses to Orthokeratology
Patient background ZS was a 13-year-old boy of south Asian ethnicity who presented with his mother for orthokeratology (OK) fitting, having heard about it by word-of-mouth. He was a keen ...
A monocular myope with coloboma
Here is an unusual case that CS shared with the Myopia Profile community involving a child with a unilateral coloboma and resultant vision impairment, with early myopia in the normally ...
Managing unilateral myopia
When a child is only myopic in one eye, it is known as unilateral myopic ametropia. This is defined as the specific refractive state where an unequivocally myopic eye is ...
Is it myopia progression or early keratoconus?
Paediatric keratoconus has faster rate of progression and is typically more severe at diagnosis when compared with adult keratoconus.1 There is also a correlation between keratoconus and axial myopia so ...
Are you measuring the cornea in myopia management?
Do you measure keratometry or corneal topography routinely in your practice? Measuring the cornea in myopes is useful when it comes to contact lens fitting, but can also fill in ...
