Wearing glasses causes eye bulginess in childhood? Is that true? What is the relationship between glasses and eye protrusion?

There are rumors that wearing glasses early in childhood can cause eye bulginess later on. There does seem to a disproportionate number of "bulgy" eyes in those that regularly wore glasses in childhood versus those that did not. The problem here deserves a closer look.

What is eye bulginess? Eyes can naturally bulge due to a lack of space in the eye socket. This can be congenital, or it can develop. There are a number of different conditions (e.g. thyroid dysfunction) , habits (e.g. sporadic breath holding), factors (e.g. hereditary shallow eye sockets) that can directly or indirectly cause eyes to bulge. When this happens, the eyes end up being pushed from their intended position to a new, more uncomfortable one.

Imagine slightly protruding eye balls in a growing child. Due to growingly awkward eye positioning, eye sight will undoubtedly be affected. In most cases, glasses are the go-to solution to solve this problem. This is where we can start to see a pattern. First there is eye protrusion, then changes in eye sight come afterwards.

There is little medical evidence to support claims that glasses cause proptosis eye bulginess). However, for reasons explained above, the onset of early proptosis has been proven to negatively affect eye sight. Therefore, the correct way to understand the situation would be that eye protrusion in young eyes worsens eye sight which in turn causes the individual to wear glasses. Glasses do not cause proptosis.

 There are many out there with questions about their eyes and problems concerning them, especially individuals dealing with bulging eyes. We here are EFIL Plastic Surgery are experts in eye protrusion and corrective procedures regarding it.

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