All About Kids' Eye-sight

[ZacK]

MMM:

My eldest girl was also diagnoised with high astigmatism in K1. When they did the review in k2 and P1, she was not asked to go for further review. Hence we kept to the same prescription since K1. She wears her glasses to school and classes. But when she is home, she usually go without glasses. My hubby has fairly high astigmatism so probably it's genetic.


I called HPB to ask if we can just \"walk in\" and bring the child for a eye review, they said they don't entertain walk in. We've to wait for the nurses to come to school.

We attended a motherhood fair years ago and sign up for eye review with a paed eye checkup at paragon. I recall that they do for kids at very young age eg. babies. My hubby was sceptical so we didn't bring the youngest one for the review.

Thanks for the clarifications regarding HPB. I feel that babes are a tad too young to need eye check-ups... I guess the earliest age that we can consider would be when our kids are of school going age i.e. from kindergarten onwards. Just my thoughts...

[MMM]

ZacK:

ks2me:

Astigmatism is usually genetic whereas short-sightedness is really due to poor habits (I see this in my kid!!!!)

Yeap my boy's short-sightedness is almost zero.... But requires glasses to be worn daily juz for astig.

I think it's similar with my girl too. She is not short sighted. She just has astimatism. Maybe that's the norm for kids with this condition?

[ZacK]

MMM:

ZacK:

[quote=\"ks2me\"]Astigmatism is usually genetic whereas short-sightedness is really due to poor habits (I see this in my kid!!!!)

Yeap my boy's short-sightedness is almost zero.... But requires glasses to be worn daily juz for astig.

I think it's similar with my girl too. She is not short sighted. She just has astimatism. Maybe that's the norm for kids with this condition?[/quote]Needs some getting use to for my son... But he usually wears his glasses at school and we make it optional for him during play since he does not really need to crystal clear vision during those times

[Luanee]

I received a letter from my girl’s kindergarten when she was in K1 (5+ yrs old) and they did the checkup in school. Same for K2.

[mummyloves]

You can bring your child to the Polyclinic for a free assessment cum eye test at 4 years old.

[ChiefKiasu]

insider:

...Eventually my kids will go through lasik to free themselves from contact lenses / glasses (my daughter wears contact lenses from Sec 1 but my son was not allowed due to his carelessness in managing hygiene)...

I heard an interesting comment from a friend that his doctor advised him that the best age is really after 40, when we start getting long sighted which makes it difficult for us to read things. In this case, 1 eye will be corrected for short sightedness while the other for long. When we get used to using our dominant eye for seeing far or reading near, we won't need any kind of glasses.

[jedamum]

insider:

When I was 9 years old, I had my first pair of glasses.

I was diagnosed with shortsightedness at P4 but only had my first pair of glasses when I was in Sec1 - cos my parents couldn't afford another pair of specs and also they believed that the poor vision will correct itself.

Can poor vision really correct itself?

[amylqf]

There is a debate on whether nearsighted are inherited from gene. below website said not true. It actually recommend to put on plus lens (far-sighted lense) for kids to prevent myopia. Anyone has use this method before?


http://www.preventmyopia.org

[lill]

My son was refered to the POlyclinic by the doctor who examine him in school for a re-test for his eyesight. The result was no good as he has to wear spectacles due to short sighted. 100 degrees for both eyes. Just wanna ask, does it mean that he has to wear the specs whold day including in the house? He keeps telling me he can still see eventhough he doesn’t wear his specs. Some people say the more he wears, it will worsen his condition cos his degree not much. I’m so confused…Does he has to wear when he’s reading a book or doing his homework?

[ChiefKiasu]

lill:

...Does he has to wear when he's reading a book or doing his homework?

My optician says to wear it only in the classroom or watching TV. Then again, he is no opthomologist.