Instituto De La Visión Dr. Méndez
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Hypermetropy (farsightedness)
A person with hypermetropy -depending on how advanced the illness is- has difficulty for vision at close-range. Commonly, a young patient with slight farsightedness may not require glasses or experience discomfort, nevertheless, as time goes by the patient will notice difficulty for vision at close-range or headaches when reading. When this kind of patient is prescribed frame glasses the same prescription will help him at close or long-range.
For a patient with high farsightedness, long-range vision will be blurry, but close-range vision will be even worse. This is refractive deficiency in which images that should be focused on the retina are focused beneath it. In this case the eye's axial length is shorter than usual.
Hypermetropy can be corrected -being case sensitive- with frame glasses, contact lenses or laser surgery. The laser surgical procedures able to correct farsightedness with excellent results, helping patients to be free of frame glasses or contact lenses are: Lasik and Conductive Keratoplasty (CK).
