01/08/2025
August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Awareness Month.
Checking their eyesight on a regular basis is key!
Eye health and eyesight are key for children’s development. Children can’t not always understand or realize when their eyes aren’t healthy though. So, we need to keep an eye on theirs!
You can help them by following this:
- Limiting their screen time.
- Increasing the time they spent outdoors.
- Protecting their eyes form sun damage.
- Checking their eyesight on a regular basis.
Most common eye problems in children are severe eye condition such as amblyopia (lazy eye) and refractive errors such as hyperopia (farsightedness), astigmatism and, particularly, myopia.
As per their safety, children should only have access to age-appropriate toys; avoid for instance, projectile ones …