For bright children's eyes and a clear future: take the first step now!

As a parent, you want only the best for your child's health and future. If your child is already nearsighted, you may be worried about how their vision will develop over the coming years. The good news is: you can take action!

Did you know? Various eye conditions are often caused by severe nearsightedness (myopia). With nearsightedness of -5 diopters or more (high myopia), the risk of later pathological changes to the eye increases significantly — often by several times over (according to the WHO 2016 Report).

Slowing progression together

By specifically slowing the progression of nearsightedness, you significantly help your child. This helps prevent your child from:

  • needing ever-thicker eyeglass lenses
  • becoming permanently dependent on strong vision aids
  • later carrying a significantly increased risk of eye diseases
Child and mother

Take action now: test your child's myopia risk!

Nearsightedness in childhood can lead to serious, sometimes vision-threatening eye conditions later in life. Early reduction of myopia progression significantly lowers the risk of eye diseases. More detailed information can be found at: www.myopiacare.org.

Free Risk Questionnaire

Use our quick online calculator, based on current research data, to estimate your child's risk of developing high myopia.

Your privacy is protected: We do not require any contact information from you for this service, and your personal data can be deleted at any time using your risk profile code. Please keep this code in a safe place.

Welcome to Myopia.Care

Your 360° online platform for professional myopia management.

Who is Myopia.Care for?Illustration: eye care specialist with family – parents and a nearsighted child

Our platform is specifically designed for parents, affected children, and eye care specialists. Myopia.Care was founded to educate parents and optimally support professionals in their fight against the progression of nearsightedness (myopia) in children. Together, we protect the eye health of the next generation.

Our Interactive Analysis Curves

Myopia.Care offers freely accessible tools to visually assess axial eye length and the expected progression [2]. All four curves can be used free of charge, with no need to enter or store any personal contact information.

1. MyAppia

Myopia progression forecast: This curve predicts the expected development of nearsightedness up to age 17, based on study data and individual risk [3]. Compare the expected course without treatment directly with the calculated effects of various treatment options [4].

Diagram: predicted myopia progression up to age 17, with and without treatment

2. Growth Curve

Axial length risk analysis: This shows the measured axial length of the eye in relation to age [5,6]. Thanks to an intuitive color-coded system (traffic light system), you immediately see the risk classification of the axial length, which significantly simplifies the decision on when to start treatment and which therapy strategy to choose [1].

Growth curve: axial eye length in relation to age with traffic-light risk classification

3. Annual Growth

Assessment of treatment success: This graph shows the current treatment outcome. It compares the actual annual eye growth since the last measurement directly with the age-appropriate physiological (healthy) growth as well as the potential untreated myopic growth [7,8,9].

Diagram: annual eye growth compared to physiological and untreated myopic growth

4. MiGeL Curve (Enhanced Risk Myopia)

Assessment of myopia limitation: The SOG-recommended MiGeL curve for assessing high myopia for myopia limitation purposes is integrated into the growth curve starting from ERM [10]. This can be used to check whether a possible claim to MiGeL reimbursement exists [11].

MiGeL curve for assessing high myopia and checking MiGeL reimbursement eligibility

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Disclaimer

Myopia.Care provides information about your child's nearsightedness.

For advice and treatment of nearsightedness, you should always consult an eye care specialist (ophthalmologist, orthoptist, optometrist, or optician) who can perform the necessary tests and advise you accordingly. Our efforts to keep this questionnaire and the websites up to date with the latest myopia research make no claim to completeness, and we cannot guarantee the timeliness, accuracy, or balance of the information presented. The content of the website and the advice you receive from us do not constitute recommendations or endorsements of the products mentioned. The application in no way replaces professional advice from an eye care specialist and must not be used as a basis for independent diagnosis or for starting, changing, or discontinuing treatment for nearsightedness.

For legal reasons, the minimum age for using the questionnaire is 16 years. However, the questionnaire may be completed for children from age 6 together with a parent or legal guardian.

We take your privacy very seriously and protect your data as much as possible. To this end, we have made special adjustments to the database. We do not need your contact information for our service, and it can be deleted from the database by you or by the eye care specialist.

Further information at Privacy Policy

Sources:

  1. World Health Organization (WHO): Report of the Joint World Health Organization–Brien Holden Vision Institute Global Scientific Meeting on Myopia. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 16–18 March 2016. Available at myopiainstitute.org
  2. Article in Review of Myopia Management, 7/9/2026: reviewofmm.com
  3. Zadnik K, Mutti DO, Mitchell GL, Jones LA, Burr D, Moeschberger ML. Normal eye growth in emmetropic schoolchildren. Optom Vis Sci. 2004 Nov;81(11):819-28. doi: 10.1097/01.opx.0000145028.53923.67. PMID: 15545807.
  4. Mark A. Bullimore, Kathryn J. Saunders, Rigmor C. Baraas, et al. IMI—Interventions for Controlling Myopia Onset and Progression 2025. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2025;66(12):39. doi.org/10.1167/iovs.66.12.39
  5. Sanz Diez P, Yang LH, Lu MX, et al. Growth curves of myopia-related parameters to clinically monitor the refractive development in Chinese schoolchildren. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2019 May;257(5):1045-1053.
  6. Tideman JWL, Polling JR, Vingerling JR, et al. Axial length growth and the risk of developing myopia in European children. Acta Ophthalmol. 2018 May;96(3):301-309.
  7. Brennan NA, Shamp W, Maynes E, et al. Influence of age and race on axial elongation in myopic children: A systematic review and meta-regression. Optom Vis Sci 2024;101:497-507.
  8. Yii FS. Emmetropic eye growth in East Asians and non-East Asians. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2023;43:1412-8.
  9. Data provided courtesy of Dr. Mark Bullimore, bullers2020.com
  10. MiGeL Limitations as well as the guideline of the SOG-SSO Strabismus Working Group: sog-sso.ch
  11. MiGeL position no. 25.02.04.00.1 for myopia management, page 15: bag.admin.ch

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