Glasses for children

Js_Other_Half

dizziblonde wrote: »

Even if they have to wear an eyepatch they get a choice of funky coloured ones - seen a fair few ladybird spotted ones around and stuff and it just becomes a non-issue for the other kids.

DS has 5 different patterned ones - green camoflage, blue with rockets and planets, yellow with black pirate items, red with vehicles, and red with footballs.

Js_Other_Half

http://www.healthybooks.org.uk/ is a searchable database of books for children around various issues, including health. Before DS had his glasses I spent weeks reading some books about animals needing glasses (he is only 2).

Eyesight books: http://www.healthybooks.org.uk/category/34/

jackomdj

jackomdj wrote: »

Has anyones LO's eye problems been brought on by a viral infection? Our 2 year old DD was ill about a month ago (just high temp & nothing too serious - we thought) her eye started turning in occasionally. Two weeks ago it got more dramatic & she is looking at the nose with her left eye about 75% of the time. We saw the Doc on Wed & she is getting refeered to the hospital.

Having read on the net a squint can be brought on by viral infection & it all ties up with when it started (may be totally wrong though).

Similar to another poster it is amazing how many LO's have glasses on when you start looking. I hope our referal comes through quickly.

Nicky

We went to the hospital yesterday & they did some testing on DD. The lady agreed that it was probably a recent thing as she was using both eyes to the same effectiveness.
She did a prism test & said it is about 30 - anybody got any clues what this means in real terms...I think it is how far (a %?) that it is turning in? Anyway we have a drop test booked in for the 30th, so we will find out a lot more then.
One of the test they did was showing DD different size pictures at different distances & she had to say what it was...the cat she kept calling a tiger & the side on picture of a car was a motorbike (well it did only have 2 wheels - & OH has a few bikes so she knows all about them!)
Nicku

Loz01

Dont worry about your daughter - I was 7 when I got glasses, and (looking back now) before that I had pretty poor eyesight, but I just thought thats how the world was! I never thought to mention everything was blurred and I couldnt see anything in fine detail. My Mum took me to the opticians when she saw me squinting and I was quite badly short sighted. When I got my glasses I was bloody amazed that things had detail, little things I'd not seen properly before! So if your daughter does get glasses she'll probably just be relieved and amazed at what she can see.

JoolzS

Your daughter is very lucky to get glasses so young. I don't know when my eyesight deteriorated, but I only knew I needed glasses when I was 17 and tried on a pair of my friend's glasses and discovered that things I had only seen as a blur were actually visible. I don't think I really needed glasses as a child but, looking back, I did probably need them from the age of 14 or so. "Catching" it early is a good thing - your daughter will get to see her world in the right way, rather than in a blurry way.

Julie

jackomdj

Thanks for your replies.

I don't think there was going to be an issue with us not noticing, she went from normal looking eyes to looking at her nose with her left eye about 75% of the time over the course of about a week. She had a high temp for 2 weeks & it was in the second week that the squint appeared!

I have quite bad eyes, but did not get/need glasses until I started work. My eyes are drastically different in what they can see!

Hopefully they will be able to sort things over the next few years.

ginvzt

You are a great mum and your daughter will be fine! I got glasses when I was about 9-10, and it was my teacher who noticed - I was always good at maths, but during one test I was sitting at the back at the class and instead of '+' signs in the tasks I have written '-' from the blackboard. When I was finally checked out, I was -8.5 and -5 something!!!!! I had lots of 'exercises' for my eyes, etc, but now I am nearly 30 and my prescription is about -9 and -7.5. I don't mind glasses, I don't go well with the lenses - eyes get dry so quickly.

When I was growing up both I and my brother needed glasses, and our younger sister used to complain that she can't see the book right in front of her as she felt she was missing out, I suppose. My mum took her to doctors few times, but she always managed to read the bottom line of the chart there! She was (still is at 24) a bit (or a lot) of an attention seeker!

Swampmonster

they are for chidren specsavers

Jo_Mc_2

Just wondered if anyone can give me advice about the best and obviously cheapest place to get glasses for my 9 year old son (possibly). He's just changed classes, is sat at the back (for how long I don't know - he'll soon be sat in front of the teacher's desk I reckon) and has told me that he's having trouble seeing the white board, it's blurry from where he's sitting.

I want to get his eyes checked asap but having looked online it's all a bit confusing as to who is the cheapest - glasses are an expense we could really do without at the moment but needs must, obviously. Due to his age we should get a voucher towards the cost, I think?

Any advice would be appreciated

jenhug

glasses and eye tests are free for children.. unless you choose designer frames I believe