All About Kids' Eye-sight
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Bronzy:
This point of view is very interesting. Always believed that leaving the myopia untreated (i.e without getting specs) would just make it worse. My DD has had 6/9 vision since P1. Managed without specs. Now in P4 it has deteriorated to 6/18 so am getting her specs. Was told that I should have started her with specs earlier. Any ideas to improve vision would be appreciated. Does the pinhold specs that I saw mentioned help reduce myopia?
As long as the eye ball keep on growing, the myopia can be worsen no matter you put on glasses or not.
pinhole specs will not reduce myopia. it just help to see better (with limitation). I don't think any tech right now can reduce myopia, right now.
What I was talking about was \"Control\" myopia. -
Bronzy:
This point of view is very interesting. Always believed that leaving the myopia untreated (i.e without getting specs) would just make it worse. My DD has had 6/9 vision since P1. Managed without specs. Now in P4 it has deteriorated to 6/18 so am getting her specs. Was told that I should have started her with specs earlier. Any ideas to improve vision would be appreciated. Does the pinhold specs that I saw mentioned help reduce myopia?
As long as the eye ball keep on growing, the myopia can be worsen no matter you put on glasses or not.
pinhole specs will not reduce myopia. it just help to see better (with limitation). I don't think any tech right now can reduce myopia, right now.
What I was talking about was \"Control\" myopia. -
Bronzy:
To control myopia as my child's goes up exponentially, I put her on Ortho-K. It is actually not invasive and similar to wearing hard lens for anyone having myopia. However, the main difference is the convenience in the day, perfect vision and free from all external help. That makes life so good and normal especially for active children. But the main motivation was to control the myopia from climbing rapidly.
Thanks for the advise. Took DD to the optician for a proper check and found that her power is already 200 deg! The optometrist said that I should have brought her earlier. Strange that the school health check did not indicate that she required glasses although her vision was 6/9 since P1. 6/18 this year and only then they recommend glasses. Will need to monitor her as kids who start with higher power apparently tend to increase faster too. What kind of other measure would you suggest?ks2me:
If you want a super light pair of glasses, I recommend SwissFlex but it also means that it is so light that sometimes she may not feel that it is there.
Monitor the situation...if it goes up too fast, then you need to take other measures. -
ks2me:
To control myopia as my child's goes up exponentially, I put her on Ortho-K. It is actually not invasive and similar to wearing hard lens for anyone having myopia. However, the main difference is the convenience in the day, perfect vision and free from all external help. That makes life so good and normal especially for active children. But the main motivation was to control the myopia from climbing rapidly.
I asked the optometrist about the Ortho K and she was not in favour of it as she said it does not correct the problem and as soon as the child stops wearing the lenses, the myopia comes back. Did your child expereince any difficulty with having to wear the lenses every night e.g. accidental scratching? discomfort? -
Nebbermind:
Optometrist indicated that power will probably increase significantly. Hoping not too fast or too much!from 6/9 to 6/18 in 3 yrs seems rather OK leh.
my boy gotta change his specs almost every yr at one stage, (maybe sometimes even shorter) and currently ard -5.00 and only P6!!
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I got a few requests to recommend my Ortho-K opticians, so I thought I'd share my contact here. I know this may not be the right place to post this, but I don't know where :? So, sorry monitors, if you have shift this to elsehwhere.
Please note that I have no interests in this optician's business, and I won't even know if you had gone to him for consultation or not. I am solely a customer. 4 of my kids have used his services for the last 3 years and we are very happy. All of them can see with 6/6 vision now. If you are wondering what Ortho-K is, please refer to my earlier posts.
I post this here because I seldom login to KSP nowadays, and thought it'd benefit those who would like to try.
My oldest was having a 100 degree increase in myopia ever 2 months when he was 9. Now it has come down to 200 or 175 from 300 degrees. The rest are at about 100 degrees. Might have come down but I did not experiment (because it is quite a lot of work to do). And since I started them on Ortho-K the moment they are diagnosed short sighted, their sight don't increase, as the lenses act as 'braces'. One big thing is to service them often and make sure good hygiene is observed ALL the time.
Andrew at Optical Point (he is the boss), 96170569. I think he has 11 branches. Tell him the family with 5 kids recommended you. It will cost anything between $1500 to $2000, I think. I've tried a few other OK experts but he is one of the pioneers, and he attends to his customers personally. Very careful and thorough. Remember to service your lenses frequently. He does it free for me, and I think it should be the same for all customers. -
Bronzy:
This point of view is very interesting. Always believed that leaving the myopia untreated (i.e without getting specs) would just make it worse. My DD has had 6/9 vision since P1. Managed without specs. Now in P4 it has deteriorated to 6/18 so am getting her specs. Was told that I should have started her with specs earlier. Any ideas to improve vision would be appreciated. Does the pinhold specs that I saw mentioned help reduce myopia?
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I have a friend, who was (he died of cancer) a very famous eye doctor. He told me once that specs COULD worsen myopia. But, as a practitioner, he has to advise children to wear glasses.
I remember (this is like 20 years ago) him telling me that, to be off glasses, and still see with myopia, a person has to learn not to strain the eyes. But, how many children can learn to do that? So most opticians are trained to just prescribe, eye doctors too.
Again, this is a very senior doctor, he was the most senior in some government hospital and he got quoted in newspapers kind, so he was very advanced and very well researched. I say this because most doctors are not as advanced, and so this point of view is normally not subscribed. Well, he passed away about 10 years ago, so I don't know what happened after that when it comes to myopia research. But, I am strongly against wearing glasses, though DH wears a pair. It impacts your lifestyle, teaches you that you have poor eye sight and you cannot do anything about it.
Again, this is just my opinion... -
2ppaamm:
so my uneducated parents are right!
I have a friend, who was (he died of cancer) a very famous eye doctor. He told me once that specs COULD worsen myopia. But, as a practitioner, he has to advise children to wear glasses.
ya, but how many kids can resist straining their eyes? -
jedamum:
That's what he told me more than 20 years ago, when he was still in States as a government sponsored doctor to further his research on myopia, he was then the most senior consultant in one of the government hospitals. Myopia is a very important topic/issue within Singapore and the government does spend a lot of time and money on it.
so my uneducated parents are right!2ppaamm:
I have a friend, who was (he died of cancer) a very famous eye doctor. He told me once that specs COULD worsen myopia. But, as a practitioner, he has to advise children to wear glasses.
ya, but how many kids can resist straining their eyes?
But he has now passed on, I don't know whether other researchers have proven otherwise.
I would say 99% of small children cannot resist or even understand the meaning of 'straining'. However, I am one special case. Ha ha... not because I am smart, but because I am lazy. Whenever I cannot see something, I'll just look away and say, cannot see lah. I won't even bother to strain to see what the thing is. Not sure if this can help some of you who have children with myopia. Teach them 'not to see', if they can't see. It will definitely slow down myopia worsening.
Another reason he cited for the bad eye sight was the white board vs the black board we use. Remember the property of light? How can our eyes take that reflection from the sun? Black board can be better, but they are dirty etc etc...
Another one, is sleeping late, and using florescent lamp. Most lightings in our houses are bad and wrong. Well, thing is, no matter how expensive those lamps are and how they emphasize they are good for your eyes, they are not. So, work in the day and sleep at night. Again, with our kids' busy, busy schedule, this is close to impossibility.
Those are what I understand. I'm no specialist or eye doctor, just compiling from what my eye expert friends say. When he passed on, it was a very sad occasion. Perhaps some of his voice can be heard here. O, he also commented on Bates one time in the press... but I cannot remember exactly what he said, he did not say it won't work, I think he said it will not cure myopia. But again, doctors are not God. -
I agree. It is very difficult for the children not to strain the eye. I told my dd many many many times not to squint her eye. She just couldn’t help it.
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