pictures of kids in glasses with a strong prescription
Thank you to everyone who commented on my earlier post about strong prescriptions and sent in pictures of their kids with strong prescription glasses. I thought I’d make this a new post to show some of the pictures to give people a sense of the distortion that happens with high prescription lenses (hint, it’s really not very noticeable). Again, you would expect that farsighted (+ prescriptions) will make the eyes look a little bigger, and that nearsighted (- prescriptions) will make the eyes look a little smaller.
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Josh is a +9 in his right eye and a +10 in his left eye:
Josh wearing glasses
picture of Josh for comparison without glasses
Josh's right lens
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Christina’s daughter is a +7 in her right eye and a +8 in her left eye:
Christina's daughter and her glasses
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Bennett is a -8 and a -12:
Bennett
(and of course, it goes without saying, but wow, your kids are all very cute!)
I’ve had glasses since I was 8. I think it made me stronger in the long-run!
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Thanks Pat! I love that story, and I’m glad you’re re-running it.
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Recently my son who is 4 years old was prescripted +4 eyeglesses in each eye.everyone around is saying that is really strong prescription for his age.How in the world did his eyes got so bad???? If anyone has a similar story or concerns please response because i fell so lost in this.
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Hi Karolina, I’m glad you found us! +4 is considered moderate farsightedness, so yes, it’s strong, but not overly high or severe. My daughter is almost 4, and has a prescription in the +4.75 range for both eyes, and can function without her glasses (for instance, in swimming lessons), though she does ask for them every morning now. She started wearing glasses at 14 months, and while it was a struggle at first, it’s gotten far, far better, to the point where I now love her glasses.
I’m not sure of an answer to how his eyes got so bad, it’s related to the shape of his eye, and is definitely not anything you or he did, just something that some kids are born with.
Please stick around and let us know how things go, and feel free to ask any
My 4 year old son Caleb was recently diagnosed with Hyperopia and Astigmatism .. his prescription is a +10 and +9. How bad is this really? The optometrists tend to sugar coat it and I am unsure of the severity of his eyesight. He has adjusted well to the glasses but I feel uncertain about his future .. will his eyesight deteriorate or perhaps improve?
Hi Lindsay, your son’s prescription is definitely very strong, but it is correctable, which is the most important thing. My understanding is that most farsighted kids do become less farsighted as they get older, so his vision will likely improve, though probably not to the point of not needing glasses.
Best of luck to you!
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Hi i am glad to have found you, my 3 and a half son has had glasses for the past year and a half. His prescription at the moment is +11 both eyes apart that he has a lazy eye. On my visit he immediately said that he is very long sighted, slightly astigmatic and has a lazy eye. I am very worried about his eye sight since it seems to go up in strenght not down and that they are extremely strong for his tender age. I just got him new glasses the thinnest possible which is still very thick in my opinion, and very noticible that he has strong vision.
Hi Claudia, I’m glad you found us. My understanding is that farsightedness can get worse for a little bit at this age, but then begins to lessen until around age 12 when it stabilizes. +11 is a very strong farsighted prescription, I completely understand your worries.
I just found out that my daughter can barely see out of her right eye. Her perscription is -15.00 in the right eye and -1.00 in the left. This is a significant difference between the 2 eyes and I am wondering how glasses are going to look on her becauase of this huge difference. Everyone I’ve talked to have never seen a prescrition this high and I think the thickness is going to be enormous. I don’t know how her eye got so bad or why it wasn’t caught sooner. Anyone with pictures that show this type of eye glasses would be helpful. My daughter is 5 years old. Any advice on how to help her to cope if the glasses make her look funny.
Hi Yolanda, that is a very strong prescription. I know there are parents here with kids with similarly strong prescriptions, I hope they’ll chime in. I would be worried with such a large difference in prescription between the two eyes – I think that it may emphasize the distortion. I believe I’ve heard of doctors recommending a contact in those cases, in part because the distorion from the lens with the high prescription can make it difficult for the eyes to work together.
Keep us updated on how things are going.
My eleven year old daughter has been wearing a high correction for far-sightedness (hyperopia) since it was discovered when she was 4 and developed a lazy eye. At that time her correction was +9.00 and +8.25. The lazy eye was successfully corrected with many many months of patching which she was very accepting of. I had hoped that her vision would improve slightly with age but, sadly, it has got worse. She now has lenses that are +10.50 and +9.25. At eleven years old she now cares very much how she looks. We have always spent an enormous amount of money on the special lenses that can be made thinner even for high Rx. She prefers plastic frames as these are better at hiding the thickness of the lens, which is still thicker than the frame. Do they magnify her eyes? Yes, but only so much that you would think what lovely big eyes she has: Not what abnormally big eyes she has. So you could put a positive spin on it. The negative side is that the glasses are quite heavy even with the special lenses. But she is used to them and doesn’t complain. The real tragedy in her case is that she is outside the range for LASIK surgery and also outside the range for disposable contact lenses. I have recently read about an implantable lens option which requires surgery and sounds rather extreme. I’m afraid that is likely to be her only option and she will still have to wait until she is at least 18.
Thanks for sharing Sarah! I bet she looks great in her glasses. Would she be able to wear non-disposable contact lenses at some point?
Yes, she could wear non-disposable contact lenses. They are not recommended for her age though and do cause more irritation than disposables. We’d all love a perfect solution but I’m coming to accept that there just isn’t one.
hi my son is nearly six and he has just been diagnosed with +9.25 in left eye and 8.25 in right eye, i was too shocked to ask any questions but now im trying to understand how did his eyes get so bad?? and how did i not notice? im worried about him wearing such strong prescription glasses, could they have got it wrong? hes never shown any symptoms and does not have a lazy eye or squint? im confused and worried can you help?
Kids with strong farsighted prescriptions can still focus on things up close, it just causes a lot of eye strain, and can eventually cause their eyes to cross, though it sounds like your son hasn’t ever had problems with his eyes crossing. Kids are also growing really rapidly at this age, and can have growth spurts that cause their prescriptions to jump pretty quickly, so his eyes may not have been this farsighted the whole time. It is a really strong farsighted prescription, though. Did his doctor dilate his eyes and do an exam with them dilated? That plus having him read an eye chart up close should give an accurate assessment of his prescription, but if you’re at all in doubt, I would see about getting a second opinion. He should slowly outgrow the prescription, though with it being that high, he will likely not completely outgrow the need for glasses.
Good luck! I know it’s hard to not be worried, but getting him checked and getting him glasses are the best things you can do for him.