The Speed of Emmetropia
Josephine Leone, BOrth&OphthSc(Hons) 1
Zoran Georgievski, BAppSc(Orth)Hons 1,2
Konstandina Koklanis, BOrth(Hons)PhD 1,3
1 Department of Clinical Vision Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
2 Orthoptics, Northern Health, Melbourne, Australia
3 Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
The disruption to the emmetropisation process is commonly cited as one important reason for not prescribing glasses for hypermetropia in infants – if, of course, there are no other indicators present (anisometropia or strabismus). The purpose of this case report is to re-visit what is considered to be a ‘normal’ amount of hypermetropia in infancy and the issues concerned with refractive correction and prescribing in younger children with hypermetropic errors. Using an illustrative case study, it is also aimed to highlight the speed or rate at which emmetropisation can take place.
