The treatment methods for pseudo-myopia include:
(1) Using various methods to increase visual excitability and reduce the visual threshold: such as qigong, cold water baths, taking stimulating drugs, etc. These therapies can not only improve distance vision, but theoretically should also improve near vision, and are not ideal treatment methods.
(2) Local drug treatment: such as atropine-like drugs, their effect of relaxing accommodation is fast and obvious, which is a unified method for differentiating between true and false myopia. However, these drugs all inevitably have side effects such as difficulty in seeing up close and photophobia. Some people have tried to use lower concentrations to achieve a certain effect of relaxing accommodation without side effects, but research results show that as the side effects disappear, so does the efficacy.
(3) Physiological treatment methods: such as looking into the distance, fogging method, and crystalline lens exercises, etc. All of these require a distant target as an attractant for relaxing accommodation, making it impossible to conduct treatment in a near environment, such as during evening self-study. This involves installing two sets of flashing light bulbs in a dark box measuring 10x9x3 cm³. One set consists of two lights located on the line of sight for both eyes when looking far away, simulating the role of a distant target. When this set of lights flashes, the observing eye automatically merges the images, guiding the lines of sight of both eyes towards infinity. Based on the relationship between accommodation and convergence in combined movements, as convergence spreads out, accommodation also relaxes simultaneously. The other set consists of a single bulb located in the center between the two merging lights, serving as a target for both eyes to look at closely at the same time. When the two sets of lights alternate flashing, the observing eye follows the lights, alternately looking near and far, exercising the internal and external muscles of both eyes in coordination to achieve the purpose of treating pseudo-myopia in a near environment and preventing true myopia.