Information about the doctor Ovsiienko Viktoriia Petrivna
Category: Higher
Education:
- Bogomolets National Medical University
Priority areas in clinical practice:
- preventive examinations of children;
- treatment of inflammatory eye diseases;
- treatment of demodicosis with massage of eyelids;
- selection of glasses of various complexity;
- treatment of chalazion and barley with conservative method;
- removal of foreign bodies;
- treatment of conjunctivitis, keratitis, blepharitis and chorioretinitis;
- determination of color perception via Rabkin table.
- ‘Number of children suffering from myopia, arising from school attendance, has increased. This is due to an increase in visual load and impact of gadgets. Kids just do not leave their tablets, mobile phones and spend very little time outdoors. They look not far than at arm’s length, eye adapts to this distance, therefore, they have myopia developing.’
- ‘A negative aspect is that educational institutions decided to transfer books into an electronic format. At the same time, parents buy their child a tablet but not an e-book.’
Hobbies, favorite movies, books:
- ‘I love detective stories – to read as well as watch. I like classic of the genre, as well as modern French detective stories by Fred Vargas.’
- ‘I live in a private house near a forest – it opens up opportunities for regular biking with my husband.’
Doctor's advice:
- ‘We need to walk in the open air in daytime at least two hours a day. Parents need to minimize time a child spends with gadgets and watch his posture – it is not the last factor that impacts vision. Videos should be shown on a big screen at a distance of two meters or more, while use of gadgets should be limited to an average of ten to fifteen minutes several times a day.’ ‘Adults also have myopia progressing, at least as not fast as babies do. If you spend a lot of time with gadgets and computer, to 25-30 years computer myopia is likely to develop. Exercises for eyes help to distress your eyes.’
Advantages of MM 'Dobrobut':
- ‘Always I try to grow professionally, attend conferences in Ukraine and abroad, congresses of Ukrainian Pediatric Ophthalmologists Society.’
- ‘Advantage of “Dobrobut” is in availability of high-level equipment. This is very helpful during diagnosis.’
