eye tests and drops from hospital for 5 year old DD?

mhagster

Amandada: can I ask you what age your daughter started wearing lenses?
Are they available on the NHS?

Indie_Kid

jackomdj wrote: »

We have to put our own drops in for the drop test about 30 mins prior to appointments. They are easy to put in, although I always worry I have not put enough in until they start dilating.

You don't need to put much in. A drop or two will do.

msb5262

Hello OP,
My DD was diagnosed with a lazy eye at the age of 3 by the health visitor. We did drops/glasses/patching/endless visit to the eye department, and the result is very good vision and she doesn't have to wear glasses (she's now 13).
Don't worry about all this; she will probably get used to the glasses really quickly and cope well with everything.
They are certainly lovely people in the eye department at our local hospital, to the extent that my DD used to love going to her appointments!
HTH
MsB

amandada

mhagster wrote: »

Amandada: can I ask you what age your daughter started wearing lenses?
Are they available on the NHS?

She's 12 and started wearing them a couple of months ago-which was the minimum age recommendation, as much from the point of view for the understanding of the hygiene needed. She's taken to them like a duck to water.
As far as I'm aware they're not available on NHS for straightforward short sightedness-we're £10.50/month for monthly replacement lenses.
I'm not sure but I think there are certain conditions where lenses might be more beneficial than glasses, but I'm willing to be corrected on that

Js_Other_Half

My eldest niece has used daily disposables <occasionally> since the age of 8. She was assessed by an opthalmic optician before being prescribed them; the youngest child the optician had on her books for the same lenses was under 7.

System

I'm pretty sure my younger sister must have had a lazy eye. I remember her having eye drops and having to wear a patch and then glasses from an early age. However she's 17 now and hasn't needed glasses for a few years now so it must have done some good! (Unlike me who had great eyesight as a kid and am now very shortsighted)

jackomdj

sh1305 wrote: »

You don't need to put much in. A drop or two will do.

I know, but I always think it won't be enough. Getting an old hand at it now though - I did worry the first time I did it!

littlerat

I had quite bad eyesight as a kid, found out when I was 7 (took a while as I was doing fairly well in class anyway) when they asked me to read the letters starting with the "E" at the top, my response was "what E?", did find it but couldn't read much at all.

Had a couple types of drops in, one to dilate pupils often, they're annoying and always gave me a headache afterwards, but not traumatising. I had to have some others too, can't remember what for, and they stung like crazy, but again it didn't last.

Never had patches but had glasses, took me about a year to get into wearing them without telling, Mum had to tell me most mornings, annoying at times but I soon got used to it, 1 or 2 teased me but they were the sort that always found a reason to tease people.

I used to often kill my glasses (I was an active child...) so had repairs quite often, sometimes replacements and it never caused an issue.

curlygirl1971

I have drops in my eyes at the hospital when I go for checkups/treatments. They are designed to dilate your pupils to allow them to get a better look at what is going on inside the eye. I'm a big wuss but I find the stingy feeling very mild and they have always as a matter of course followed these drops straight after with a mild anaethestic drop. The first time I went I had several lots of the drops in - this is because I'd see one person and then be asked to see another and have to wait to be seen so they'd top the drops up. However apart from that 1st time the drops have worn off in a couple of hours but until they do I can't focus well and am sensitive to light - so perhaps if you have a childrens pair of sunglasses this might be an idea?

Am sorry I can't reassure you on any other matter - am sure they will treat your daughter with consideration. Am sure they deal with lots of children. Best of luck

Indie_Kid

Ive worn glasses since I was at least 3. I also wore patches at some point. A friends' mum refused to allow her son to wear the patches - he'd always bump into everything.

Apparently now, I don't have a lazy eye. The same person who told me this, also told me I can now drive. (I can't, according to the DVLA)