Nearsightedness is when the eyes focus incorrectly, making far-off objects appear blurry.

A myopic person sees near objects clearly, while objects in the distance are blurry. Therefore, someone with shortsightedness tends to squint when viewing far away targets. This characteristic is the base of the word “myopia,” which comes from two Greek words: myein, meaning shut, and ops, meaning eye.

Jaeger charts are used to assess a man’s near vision. A Snellen chart will be better for assessing somebody’s out-of-the-way vision. A shortsighted person won’t be able to view the image from a Snellen chart with great clarity and so the letters looked fuzzy and unfocussed.

Nearsightedness is caused by the actual length of the eye being longer than the optical length. So you often see this in a rapid growing eye in a child undergoing rapid growth. When a person’s growth stops - around the mid twenties - they tend to be less myopic. If the actual length of the eye is too large, the light rays focus too soon and the image becomes smeared. So, the times of rapid growth are the times when people are most likely to become myopic.

So whilst young people are the most likely to get Shortsightedness. It happens in equal numbers between boys and girls. If there is family history, then somepeople are most likely to have it.

If you are myopic, then you are likely to need to the local opticians and see whether I could get Designer glasses online. Just go to an actual optician for the prescription and request a copy of the prescriptions.