Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by derefr on Thursday August 09, 2018 @12:41PM (#17725773)

You can't develop myopia or hyperopia after your eyes/skull/orbital muscles are done growing. So this suggestion probably applies only to adults.

Keep in mind that this is age-related macular degeneration. Your photoreceptor cells are protected by the α-tocopherol until "a person's 50s or 60s." You wouldn't need any prophylactic interventions until then.

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Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by graeme on Thursday August 09, 2018 @03:47PM (#17727813)

Interesting. My myopia worsened a bit from ages 22-27 or so. Does that mean my skull and muscles were changing still?

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Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by UlisesAC4 on Saturday August 11, 2018 @12:30PM (#17740319)

Actually yes. Doctors have told me that I should wait til 25 to see If I am candidate to eye laser operation because that is the average age where people stop developing his muscle eyes.

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Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by niceperson on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:33PM (#17726398)

>You can't develop myopia or hyperopia after your eyes/skull/orbital muscles are done growing. Do you have a source for that?

Would the inverse also be true?

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Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness by derefr on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:17PM (#17726887)

I don't know about a source—a medical textbook? Those conditions are explicitly caused by the eye being squished out of the "proper" shape for focusing light by the way the skull and extraocular muscles end up developing.

I suppose you could develop myopia later in life as a result of inflammation of the extraocular muscles (orbital myositis), but this would be 1. temporary, and 2. not treated as its own disease, but rather as a symptom.

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