All About Kids' Eye-sight

[Honey]

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[Hmm..never heard of Hemasol.


- Was the increase of 50 in 2 years? Yes- Is it daily? Yes- \"No problem seeing near\" means no need for progressive lens? No need- Does it cause the eyes sensitivie to the light? Need transitions lens? Yes & wear cap when outdoors. She still had her weekly swimming lessons for that 2 years when on drops. Doc advised that the night before her swimming lesson skip the eye drop.

If the power increases slightly and without those side effects of atropine treatment, this seems to be a solution worth considering.

The doc already told me earlier that when her eye degree shoots to 200 or more, he'll prescribe the eye drop. It wasn't until her eye power shot up to 275 that he put her on the therapy. I was expecting Atropine eye drops to be administered too as I went to google. He explained that this is a milder version. I would have gone with Atropine eye drops too as I trusted his expertises. I thought all others are prescribed the same until I learnt recently that Atropine eye drops is the more commonly prescribed eye drops.

From what I understand from my friends, their kids must be on progressive glasses when on Atropine as the kid cannot read near. My friend's son who is still on Atropine had his degree reduced just barely half a year or 9 months into the Atropine therapy. I feel that the best person to check with is your kid's eye doctor. He/she would be the best person to make the recommendations based on the condition of your kid's eyes.

[barney8]

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My dd was with another eye clinic for 3 years with a very senior eye doctor but due to an incident, we had to see a eye doc imm & was referred by our Paed to Eagle Eye. We have not looked back since. The prices are similar to other specialist eye clinics but the doctors are gentle & the staff there are nice. They don’t put your kid on unnecessary treatment. In fact, when they knew that my dd was on atropine for 2+ years already as prescribed by the previous eye doc, they advised us to stop the atropine treatment & monitor.[/quote]

hi honey, can you pm me the doctor name in eagle eye?
can i clarified: the hemasol eye drop is prescribed by the 1st doc? when u changed to eagle eye, the eye drop treatment is stopped?

how old is your child?

[Honey]

barney8:

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My dd was with another eye clinic for 3 years with a very senior eye doctor but due to an incident, we had to see a eye doc imm & was referred by our Paed to Eagle Eye. We have not looked back since. The prices are similar to other specialist eye clinics but the doctors are gentle & the staff there are nice. They don't put your kid on unnecessary treatment. In fact, when they knew that my dd was on atropine for 2+ years already as prescribed by the previous eye doc, they advised us to stop the atropine treatment & monitor.

hi honey, can you pm me the doctor name in eagle eye?
can i clarified: the hemasol eye drop is prescribed by the 1st doc? when u changed to eagle eye, the eye drop treatment is stopped?

Yes hemasol was prescribed by 1st doc. Dd was still on hemasol for a short while after transferring to Eagle Eye as we still had the eye drops. We were advised to stop the treatment as she had by then been on the treatment for more than 2 years already. Actually we were wondering why didn't the previous eye doc stop the treatment as he said that it was a 2 year therapy but was glad when Eagle eye doc told us to stop the treatment & monitor if the eye power has more or less stablised. My dd stopped the treatment in P5. She is in P6 now.


how old is your child?[/quote]

[tjoseph833]

tjoseph833:

hi everyone ... we've been researching the web like crazy, read some books and spoke with some parents ... worried sick ... finally found this informative forum ... you guys are awesome ... really.

... just some updates from earlier post ... both my DS and DD now using myovision glasses for 3 weeks. they seem happy with it so far. only using glasses for school, tv, read / write. we have checkup end of march and hope no increase. we're slowly coming to terms with their early myopia ...

[barney8]

… just some updates from earlier post … both my DS and DD now using myovision glasses for 3 weeks. they seem happy with it so far. only using glasses for school, tv, read / write. we have checkup end of march and hope no increase. we’re slowly coming to terms with their early myopia …[/quote]


go out dun need glasses? how much is their degree?

[tjoseph833]

barney8:

... just some updates from earlier post ... both my DS and DD now using myovision glasses for 3 weeks. they seem happy with it so far. only using glasses for school, tv, read / write. we have checkup end of march and hope no increase. we're slowly coming to terms with their early myopia ...

go out dun need glasses? how much is their degree?[/quote]

DS -4/-4.5 and DD -0.75/0.75 with astig in one eye 250

we try to make them use 1/2 day only ... play at park 1 hour each day and daily night eye exercise ... hope all this works

[marvic]

tjoseph833:

barney8:

... just some updates from earlier post ... both my DS and DD now using myovision glasses for 3 weeks. they seem happy with it so far. only using glasses for school, tv, read / write. we have checkup end of march and hope no increase. we're slowly coming to terms with their early myopia ...

go out dun need glasses? how much is their degree?

DS -4/-4.5 and DD -0.75/0.75 with astig in one eye 250

we try to make them use 1/2 day only ... play at park 1 hour each day and daily night eye exercise ... hope all this works[/quote]

Hi, how old are your kids? Their astig seem high. My boy is 4 only and recently diagnosed with shortsightedness with very serious astig (more than 200). I feel so sorry. Doctor said must wear glasses, but I am trying to see if any other ways. Any advice please? Please help.

[struggling]

JenJen:

I've called but they said all children below 7YO will be treated as private patients, regardless whether there is a referral letter from Polyclinic or not? Is this true? Would like to check with any parents with experience. Thanks!

I took my son to SNEC pediatric eye specialist. Really the best! I paid private rate but it wasn't that expensive. They did all kinds of tests - it took about 3 hours in all. I think I paid Less than $200....

Don't bother going elsewhere and then have to go to kids specialist at SNEC later again - double the a and twice the hassle. just go straight there...
Serious

[barney8]

I took my son to SNEC pediatric eye specialist. Really the best! I paid private rate but it wasn’t that expensive. They did all kinds of tests - it took about 3 hours in all. I think I paid Less than $200…


Don’t bother going elsewhere and then have to go to kids specialist at SNEC later again - double the a and twice the hassle. just go straight there…
Serious[/quote]

private rate meaning u get to choose the specialist? which doc did u see?

[tjoseph833]

I just got this interesting book - \"secret of perfect vision\" by david de angelis ... its explains a lot ... halfway reading. anyone read this before??


here's the web links:

http://www.powervisionsystem.com/thewayitworks.php
http://www.powervisionforum.com/forum/forum.php

I think it will help not only our kids ... but also us adults in the long run.