Nicer kids, better future

While readers will, by now, be well versed in the theory and clinical techniques behind modern myopia management, putting this into practice for the first time when faced with a suitable paediatric patient and their parent is quite another thing. Two sessions at the recent BCLA virtual conference, delivered by Dr Sara McCullough and Professor Nicola Logan respectively, offered some useful help (figure 1).

The Northern Ireland Childhood Errors of Refraction (NICER) study began in 2006 by monitoring over 1,000 children (aged between six to seven and 12 to 13 years and with known family history, lifestyle and environmental influences) to see how their refractions, ocular biometry and vision had changed after three, six and nine years.¹ Key findings are summarised in table 1.