All About Kids' Eye-sight
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sall:
atropine is done everyday or every week?The immediate side-effect is sensitivity to sun. The doctor said no long-term side-effects, atropine has already been used for many years.
When it's time to stop the drop, then it will be done gradually, that means from once a wk to once every 2 wks, and so on.... Then the degree will not shoot up as we all feared. -
Once a wk, preferably Friday night, as the 2 days after the drops are applied, the eyes will be most sensitive to sun,
Some children use the eye-drops every night, some on alternate nights, it all depends on the eye specialist. -
sall:
Hi Sall,dd has been on atropine eye-drop for 4 years. Her myopia is effectively under control but I also worry about whether there is any long-term effects. Her doctor doesn't seem to think so. The degree may also shoot up if she stops the eye drop.
Anybody has children who has been on atropine for more than 4 years?
4 years is very long! How is your DD's eyesight now? How to understand your 'under control' please? improved or stays at same degree please?
My daughter is near sighted too. I am desperately trying to restore her vision too. -
Her degree improves about 50 in each eye, so for these 4 yrs, it has been like that. There are also cases where children’s degree increase even with the use of eye-drops, in those cases, the doctor said he would ask them to increase the application, to alternate days.
The doctor said that he would gradually stop the drop when dd looks more like an adult. I suppose he meant about 14 or 15 yrs old. -
Forgot to mention, the atropine will only reduce the myopia by a little bit, important thing is the degree stays there and won’t shoot up.
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sall:
Forgot to mention, the atropine will only reduce the myopia by a little bit, important thing is the degree stays there and won't shoot up.
myopia can't seem to reduce. Can maintain is a blessing.
Sall: can u PM me your eye specialist contact? Thanks. -
Hi sall, can pm me your eye specialist too? we are considering atropine for my kid… thanks a lot… btw does your child need to wear transition lens specs or other types of "special" lens? thanks!
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Just to share some of my experience with atropine. My DD’s (now in P5) been on atropine for the past 2 yrs, with half yearly review.
Her eye specialist started DD on atropine cos bad history of myopia on my side as well as due to a sudden spike in her myopia.
She puts one drop of atropine in each eye every night and she needs to wear spectacles with special lens - transition plus progressive.
During her first review, her myopia actually decreased and on her second review, it went down further. So naturally, we were pleased. During her recent review, however, it went back up to the same degree as before starting on atropine.
Her doctor’s suggested that this could be due to changes in lifestyle (we acknowledged that there is an increase in near work) and also growth spurt. DH pointed out that at least with atropine, DD managed to maintain her myopia at the same level over 2 yrs.
So we are still continuing with atropine and with the half yearly review. Of course, at the back of my mind, we do worry about long-term effect. -
Children on atropine must wear transition lens and also progressive lens. The eyes will be sensitive to sun, so transition lens can help cut off some glare, and also they may have some problems reading at close range for abt 2 days after the drops are applied, so progressive lens helps. The doctor also said progressive lens are effective in myopia control. I just paid $480 for a new pair of specs.(multi-coated, high-index, transition lens, progressive lens)
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Hi sall, $480 is a very good price! Does it include the frame? Or is the price just for the lens?
Since the introduction of atropine, I had to change DD's spectacles three times. The first time was $800 (lens and frame, deg around 150 each eye), the second time was $680 (because we chose a cheap frame, cheapest lens, and we quoted the opthalmologist's name, degree 75 for each eye ). I've just paid $650 (lens only, degree aropund 150 each eye) for her new pair. No frame as she wanted to recycle one of my specs frame.
Can let me know the name of the opitcal shop? If not convenient to 'publicise', just pm me?
A tip for parents whose kids are on atropine/just started on atropine: I make it a point to inform DD's teachers that she's on atropine. 2 reasons:
1. Bright lights, especially outdoors, tend to cause DD to squint more. We had unkind comments from DD's PE teacher with regards to this. So after that incident, I always drop an email to inform her form teacher (cc subject teachers) that DD's on atropine.
2. Some kids on atropine might have difficulty seeing the white board/projector screen in the classroom depending on where the child seat in the class. I usually let DD's teacher assign the seats, then check with DD whether the assigned seat is ok. So far, there has been only one occasion where I had to email her form teacher to request for a change in seat when she was placed on the far right of the class.sall:
Children on atropine must wear transition lens and also progressive lens. The eyes will be sensitive to sun, so transition lens can help cut off some glare, and also they may have some problems reading at close range for abt 2 days after the drops are applied, so progressive lens helps. The doctor also said progressive lens are effective in myopia control. I just paid $480 for a new pair of specs.(multi-coated, high-index, transition lens, progressive lens)
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