The Situation of Myopia in Taiwan

Introduction:
There are more and more people with nearsighted in Taiwan. It has been a big problem for a long time. Although we can be treated with laser to recover our eyesight, our eyeballs can’t be reconverted to initial shape, and we might get myopia again probably. According to news of Yahoo, there are almost 42 percent people with myopia of all Taiwanese, and this proportion is the largest in the world (Yahoo news, 2008). This is really a terrible amount. Most of these people with myopia always wear glasses everyday, but there are many disappointments for wearing glasses.
People can’t see clearly if they become nearsighted, unless they wear a pair of glasses. However, glasses can’t make them see as clearly as one with healthy eyes. Once people get nearsighted, large part of them will fell that their eyesight become weaker and weaker, and the weight of glasses become heavier and heavier. Becoming myopia is really an unfortunate thing.
Wearing glasses also changes the shape of the face, especially nose. A heavy thing put on the nose every day, and we can consider that nose can’t keep its original shape. Then, although the technology is progressing everyday, glasses are not very solid today. Both lens of plastic and glass can hurt us if they are broken. It is very dangerous. The worst thing is that common nearsightedness may result in several severe eye-disease, including glaucoma, cataract, and retinal detachment. All of them could make us become blind forever. To sum up, wearing glasses may hurt ourselves severely in many aspects but we can hardly get rid of them because we are just blind without glasses.
In conclusion, getting nearsighted would bring a lot of trouble to us. We must put more ads on TV and websites, or write it down on the textbook of elementary school to remind children that it is important to protect eyes carefully. It is the most important method of solving the nearsightedness problem in Taiwan. I hope that fewer and fewer people get nearsighted in the future in Taiwan.