Is poor eyesight hereditary?

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• Mariah

  02/06/2013

  It depends. If your have very heavy myopia, it may affect your gene and inherent to your child. In fact, for most parents with myopia, their children are not born with poor vision. But they have more risks than others to suffer poor eyesight. Besides, if you have poor vision because of some eye disease, it is possible to transmit to your child. If you have poor vision because of some injuries in your eyes, it won't affect your child.

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• colors8282

  02/06/2013

  Well, there is no any authoritative study has shown that poor eyesight because of hereditary. Actually, bad sight are most commonly due to bad reading habits and living habits. So if you want to protect your eyes and get good eyesight, you must do as follows. First, get far away from dim light which just hurt your iris at night. Second, reading in a proper time so that your eyes will not feel tired. Third, do not see much night lights which can produce UV light, that is UV lights can do harmful to the back of eyes. Now we can talk about some foods care. You should eat some fresh fruits, such as oranges, apples and watermelon which contain high vitamins. Also, drink some tea, black tea is best everyday in that tea has a great and wide known function, that is bright eyes. You have already had poor eyesight, you must to prevent the degrees. Plus, surgery helps with recovering eyesight.

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• coloursoflife

  02/07/2013

  As a matter of fact, It depends on different situations. If your have very heavy myopia, the normal demarcation line is 600 degrees. It may affect your gene and inherent to your child. However, for most parents with myopia, their children are not born with poor vision. But they have more risks than others children, who's parents have a good eyesight, to suffer poor eyesight. Besides, if you have poor vision because of some eye disease, it is possible to transmit to your child. If you have poor vision because of some injuries in your eyes, it won't affect your child. Thus, in consideration of your kids, you'd better protect your eyesight as soon as possible. Just like getting far away from dim light which just hurt your iris at night. reading in a proper time so that your eyes will not feel tired. Besides, eat some fresh fruits, and drink some tea. Fllow these tips, you will have a good eyesight.

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• Nathan

  02/16/2013

  I do not know what eyes disease you got. Or you burn to be poor eyesight. If the poor eyesight will be heredity, from the scientific study, that will depends. Some eyes disease such as the macular degeneration is a scarce familial hereditary disease, this kind of disease would happen in any age. From the study, we can see it is a autosome recessive hereditary disease, if the parents are all has this disease, the children will get 100% rate's disease. Half of the parents get, and then half of the children will get it. However, some eyes diseases such as myopia, dry eyes, pink eyes, etc. are come from the outer infection by virus or trauma, or improper eyes using habits. So if you are a person with heredity eyes disease, please avoid marrying a wife with the same disease to decrease the ratio of heredity. If you are only the trauma or infection disease eyes, there is none of the business of the heredity and your eyes disease.

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