The authors focused their attention on assessment of optimal pharmacological approaches for achieving cycloplegia. In preschool children they found on 100 eyes with esotropia autorefractometrically after 1% atropine refraction values by as much as +4.25 D higher as compared with Cyclogyl. Cyclogyl, on the other hand, proved highly effective in detection of latent hypermetropia on 40 eyes of school- children and older children with asthenopic complaints. In another series of 20 eyes of preschool children the authors tested the optimal refractory reliability of 5-day administration of atropine as compared with a single dose.

        Key words: refraction in children, cycloplegia