Hyperopia
A person with hyperopia or farsightedness will experience more difficulty depending on the seriousness of its deficiency. For example, it is common in young patients with low hyperopia to not be required to need glasses or to not experience any discomfort; however, as time passes by, the patient may experience difficulty seeing up close as well as experience headaches while reading. When this type of patient is prescribed eyeglasses, the same prescription shall work for both near and far sight.
A patient with high hyperopia, its farsightedness will blur and its nearsightedness will be worse. This refractive error is characterized by the images that the retina is supposed to focus on but instead focuses on the images behind it. In this case, the axial length of the eye is shorter.
Hyperopia can be corrected, depending on the case, with eyeglasses, contact lenses or laser surgery. The laser surgery procedures that correct farsightedness as well as show excellent results in freeing patients from the use of eyeglasses or contacts are LASIK or Conductive Keratoplasty (CK).
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