All About Kids' Eye-sight
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There is no rule stating that the shops CANNOT do it. It is just harder to check young kids because you don’t know if they can give you reliable feedback during eye testing. They are also harder to handle. A thorough testing for young children will involve dilating the eyes and the normal optician shop can’t do it. However they CAN do the eye chart with lenses, and they CAN do the machine, but many shops will either not do it, or will charge a fee between $15 to $25. You just have to keep trying different shops, or take to a polyclinic or pediatric opthamologists (v expensive!!) for checks. If you have serious concerns, you can ask for a referral to the eye centers where they will screen for short-sightedness, squint, and if there are causes for concern, 3-d vision and color-blindness.
But if your child is in a kindergarten, MOH will send people to give annual checks for K1 and K2. However it will not be as comprehensive. Just standing there and reading the eye chart. -
Hi. Just to share my experience.My girl was refer to NUH for eyecheck since K2 to about Primary 2. After that, NUH said not necessary to come because the school will be doing annually check. So I just listern. To my surprise when during school check for the past 2 years, the results indicated ok, it didnot advise us to change glasses. So I also do nothing to my girl’s glasses. It was only after about end of Pri 4, my friend recommend me to go to the optician shop, and to my horror, her eyesight had increased by 200%.
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Hi shurley197323, just curious, has your child /teacher complained of his/her vision deterioration? Did you immediately made a new pair of glasses for your child after that? It helps to have your child undergo another check by a different optometrist - from a different optical shop.
Many factors can affect eye tests, including state of health on the day of eye test (e.g.colds/sinus), familiarity with the environment and eye tests, time of the test (some people's eye see better in the morning), weather (in daylight on a sunny day, your child's vision may be better than being examined in a dark room within a shopping mall) etc. If you were to check your own eyes everyday against an eyechart (without glasses/contacts), you will notice that your eyesight varies from day to day, and even by the minute. This is because our eyes are connected to our brain, and is part of our living body. The lenses on a pair of glasses, however, are not. It does not change and adapt to us. Yet, once our body (eyes) adapts to the long term use of glasses, we become dependent on them, and thus become so for the rest of our lives. If prescribed wrongly, our child is made to 'get used to' the higher power, which in turn establishes an upward spin in his myopia.
It doesn't hurt to know more, for the sake of our future generation... :evil: (sorry, I bit side-track, but can't help being affected by the long-awaited polling day) -
Hi.concern2. Because my girl didnot complain anything since P2 to around P3 or P4(forgot), so I did not know much as I did not wear glasses myself. I only depend on the eye check slip given by the school.( I blame myself too for not bring her every 6 mths to the optician - nobody told me so at that time
). Her degree from around 200 (P2)shot up to now 600(P5)!!!. Luckily now it had been stable for last 9 mths. -
Can't blame you. Most parents discover when kids are already myopic. :shock:
Keep your child's stress level in check. A stressful child has a higher tendency to be myopic than a stress-free child, especially one who is put on extensive close work (worse if into the night) in something of little interest to him/her... -
If there's Chinese teachers reading this, can I gently urge that you increase the size of your Chinese handwriting on the white board?
Due to the intricate strokes, children who are not familiar with certain new characters may have difficulties reading them, especially from the back of the classroom. Such long term straining could aggravate the condition of their eyes...
Thank you in advance!
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hi spinach, just curious. Did your child complain that he/she can’t see for the last 1 year since the degree has increased so much? i am surprised that 300/200 degree can see without glasses.
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Hi barney8!
My child did not complain to us that he couldn't see. He did not bum into things while walking, had no problem looking for us in the shopping malls and could still watch TV at more than 3m distance. All these were done without squinting of his eyes. So we were shocked by his high degree of short-sightedness as well. But the optician asked about the size of the TV which is 40inch and explained that 40inch can still be viewed comfortably from a distance. However, if there is anything that i would like to comment on, it will be that he tilted his head and looked at things from the corners of his eyes. Obliviously to us, that is actually a sign that the child can't see: according to the optician, cuz children do not understand why their vision is blurred, so they thought that by tilting their heads and looking at things from a different angle, it will clear the \"blurred zone\". Now that my child is wearing specs, he no longer tilts his head. Hope that helps!
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Hello.I am 24 years old and my eye sight is also weak from my child hood.Is eye exercise is good for eye sight? Share with me some ideas and tell me some tools for making my eyes healthy.Reply soon.
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hi happyavon,
did ur child put atropine eyedrop after her visit with dr yvonne ling? effectiveness?
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