Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Can neonatal eye antibiotics be a latent cause of myopia?
Two doents (1. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1420 and 2. http://www.rbs2.com/SilvNitr.pdf ) have established that 1) normal babies are born with normal eyesight, or perhaps are farsighted. But myopia is becoming more prevalent world-wide, and progressively worse; and worst of all in the United States. 2) In the 1930's the US Congress mandated the use of eye antibiotics for all newborns, within one hour of their birth. The antibiotics are still mandated in every State. The antibiotic which was used until 1956 was silver nitrate, which blurs the baby's vision for 24 to 72 hours. Further, the method of instilling the antibiotics is one eye at a time, and the second eye gets less treatment because the baby squeezes both eyes shut after the first one gets treated. Parents are told practically nothing about the procedure, and it is umed that when the drug wears off the baby's vision returns to normal - but what if most babies have actually been soothed/imprinted into a state of distance blur-acceptance so that blurry distance vision seems normal to them? And since the treatment is unequal in each eye, the eyes are slightly uncoordinated and unsynchronized, preventing development of normal vision. Most Americans have one eye with significantly worse vision than the other eye.
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