How comes all my kids are longsighted???

[sparklymieow]

Just taken dd2 to an eye check and she is long sightened too, not as much as DS and dd1 but will need glasses I don't understand as neither me or DH need glasses. DS and DD1 are very longsightened and have a squint (dd2 doesn't atm) How comes they are all long sightened but we aren't???

[starlover]

it's to do witht he shape of the eye isn't it? don't think it's hereditary

[starlover]

ok just looked it up and it can be hereditary as people who are long sighted often have long sighted children.

but it doesn't ahve to be iyswim?

Causes of long-sightedness are unknown
The exact causes of long-sightedness are not well understood. It is known that the eyeballs of long-sighted people tend to be smaller than average, with less curved corneas ? the main optical component of the eye.

[sparklymieow]

I thought eye problems were hereditary. I thought that because DS and Dd1 had CP, they got their eye problems though that IYKWIM, but appartently children with CP are normally short sighted not long (or so the lady told me today) Oh well, another pair of glasses for the kids to break I suppose

[starlover]

the same page said that a high proportion of people are long sighted but dont' know it because it doesn't present any problems.
many long-sighted people have good vision, but will get headaches etc after doing a lot of visual work

so it's possible that you or your dh are long-sighted but not badly enough to warrant glasses/lenses

[sparklymieow]

we have our eyes checked and nothing comes up that needs long term use of glasses, I have to have 0.50+ in my glasses, but normally reading glasses only start at 1.5+ so I don't bother. DS and DD1 have 6.0+ and 7.5+ in their glasses, but dd2 only needs 1.5+ and 3.0+ so at least I know her eyesight isn't too bad.

[starlover]

my friend at school was long-sighted and wore glasses all through primary...but by the time we got to secondary school she had grown out of it!

i'm worried about ds because dp has the worst vision ever. can't see hardly anything without glasses... hope ds doesn't inherit that!

[sparklymieow]

I hate glasses, its not that my kids look horrible in them, they look lovely and I think they are cute, but its the amount of time the glasses spend in the shop because they have been broken again lol