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. 2020 Mar 17;17(6):1967. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17061967

Table 2.

Intake of food supplements for eye care and treatment for myopia.

Total Primary Middle High School
Number 522 344 115 63
Supplements (%)
Vitamin 15.32 14.82 19.13 11.11
Fish oil 9.34 10.50 7.82 6.35
Lutein 13.98 13.08 14.78 17.46
Mydriatic (%) 97.31 97.09 97.39 98.41
Atropine (0.125%) 28.8 31.39 21.73 23.80
Corrective methods (%) 57.28 49.72 72.17 71.42
Spectacles 56.32 48.54 71.30 71.42
Contact lenses 3.25 2.48 5.21 4.76
Orthokeratology 0.57 0.00 1.73 1.58

Note: Mydriatic includes short-acting agents and long-acting ones; the former is 0.4% Tropicamide (Mydrin-M) and the latter is 0.125% Atropine.