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There's now a treatment using low-concentration atropine eye drops to more-or-less stop the further deteriorating of the eyes (at least for near-sightedness).

Our ophthalmologist told us about this when we took our oldest there after noticing she had some issues in seeing things properly from a distance. Since my wife and myself have on average -8 we were keeping an eye out (ha!) on our kids for any signs of vision issues.

Basically every night before bed you put a drop in each eye and keep this up for as long as they're still growing. If you can start early enough this means they can end up with e.g. -1.5 or -2 instead of regressing all the way to e.g. -8.5 like me. Definitely a quality-of-life improvement, less chance of other eye issues later on, reduced cost of glasses and easier treatment with a laser to get back to 0 in case they want that.

It's fairly new, at least here in Europe, so not all doctors are familiar with it. Same for pharmacists: they need to prepare these eye drops themselves since they are not available directly from a manufacturer in this low concentration.

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How does this compare with corneal moulding?