Comments on: understanding your child’s glasses prescription

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:37:40 +0000

I am a bit confused, the PO at the hospital said that my daughter is mildly myopic with a minor astigmatism, and mentioned something at her last appointment about wearing her glasses for homework, but she still wears her glasses all the time – does she need to? Her prescription is -1.00 sph with -.075 cyl on a 90 degree for both eyes. My current prescription is worse than this but I only wear my glasses to drive and watch TV. Her next appointment isn’t for 3 months so I’m a bit confused as to whether she should be wearing them continuously or not.

By: shane

shane — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:20:55 +0000

What percentage can I see if I have -OS 7.5 lenses ? My little one is 4 yrs old

By: dae

dae — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:24:20 +0000

Thank you so much. This was VERY helpful!

By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:47:33 +0000

Thank you for this! So very helpful and makes me feel a little better to know that I am not the only one dealing with this. We just found out that our 18 months old needs glasses because he is very farsighted and his RIGHT EYE would go inward sometimes. His prescription is RIGHT +5.25 x -0.25 x 040 and LEFT +3.75 x -0.25 x 145. It just hurts my heart to think/know that my son is having vision problems. I made an appointment with another pediatric ophthalmologist for a second opinion just to get a confirmation.

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:24:40 +0000

This is really helpful, honestly after 4 years attending eye apts with my son, this is the easiest to understand. Thank you.

By: Ann Z

Ann Z — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:44:40 +0000

Hi Cathy, Kids do tend to outgrow at least some of their farsightedness as they get older. From my reading of the studies, children are more likely to not need glasses later on in life when the initial prescription is low, and they are first prescribed glasses at a later age. Both of which are true for your son, but gosh, if it were my, I think I wouldn’t tell him it’s temporary. I’ve gotten in trouble before promising things that I shouldn’t have promised. Has he picked out glasses yet? Do you think that he’ll feel better about the glasses if he has say in the style, especially if he finds glasses he likes?

Good luck!

By: Cathy Millar

Cathy Millar — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:51:58 +0000

My son has just had a routine eye exam and is long-sighted. OD +1.75 and OS +2.75. They want him to wear glasses to help correct his vision and they seemed to suggest that after wearing glasses his eyesight would then improve and he might not need to wear them in the future. Is this likely? My son is 8 and very concerned about wearing glasses. If I can say it is temporary that would be great but I don’t want to give him false hope! Does anyone have experience or knowledge of this?
By the way he is an excellent reader and will read for long stretches, holding his book at a normal distance from his eyes without any problems so the far-sighted diagnosis was a surprise!

By: Ann Z

Ann Z — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:39:27 +0000

I asked an optometrist this once, and was told that they don’t really know what causes nearsightedness to get worse. There are some studies that have found a few treatments that seem to slow the progression: bifocals is one, orthokeratology (wearing rigid contacts at night to reshape the cornea) is another, though I haven’t done a lot of research on this. I do know that usually people’s prescription stabilizes in their early 20s (though mine continued to get worse until I was about 30). I would ask your daughter’s eye doctor, but my sense is that it’s not a medical issue that’s making her progression worse, just bad luck as it were.

I’d love to hear what your eye doctor says.

By: vkittrell

vkittrell — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:57:07 +0000

Hey folks!! My nine year old is wearing glasses and her prescription just keeps getting so much worse!! its making me nervous. Should I be worried, what can I do? She started at like a -1.00 a few years back and now shes a -4.25. Bad vision runs in the family and I am a glasses wearer too, but my vision is not as bad as hers… Any ideas? Could their be something medical making it worse?

By: merry

merry — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:49:49 +0000

I want to know what my child sees. Is there any site that can give parents an understanding of what the world looks like through little farsighted eyes which also have astigmatism?