To think this optician is a pillock

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I took dd8 to see optician for general check up.
He tested her for colour blindness using the number pattern book. He said that she could be a carrier for colour blindness (My dad is colour blind) and I said oh can she? Ok. He replied with "I am telling you she is". I thought he was saying it was a possibility from his original phrasing.
He then went on to ask about whether I am short sighted I said "yes and so is dd1". He told me a myopic baby wasn't possible and I should get that looked at again.

AIBU to think he is talking out of his arse and to see a different optician next time?

I have been wearing glasses for myopia since the age of 7. I gave up using chains years ago due to lack of confidence with the staff. I have been with an Independent for over 20 years now, and like the continuity of care. Both my DC also use them again for the continuity since early childhood.

@Mari50 excuse me? What part of what I wrote is incorrect? My mum is an optometrist, I asked her before I posted. It is unusual for such a little one to be diagnosed myopic 🤷🏼‍♀️

Breast, read you previous post. You've just posted the opposite of what you said there.

If you're making a distinction between being myopic and being diagnosed myopic, you're being a bit to subtle.

Wow I didn’t even know women could be colour blind! (Misses point of thread).

Sounds like the optician missed the seminar on customer care / bedside manner at uni. I had an optician who was really patronising to me because I didn’t know the exact brand of contact lens cleanser I used. I got them sent with the contact lenses as part of the monthly fee, I didn’t need to know. But he couldn’t understand why it was of zero interest to me.

@PettyContractor what? I said babies are usually myopic until their eyesight develops, it’s unusual to be diagnosed myopic at 1 year old... as in diagnosed with an issue out of the realms of normality.
Read my posts again. Nothing is contradictory?!

Anyway 🙄

BreastSideStory
Oh sorry, I just saw she’s 1. Again most children of that age are myopic to some extent- this is wrong
kids don’t develop 20/20 vision until they’re of school age at least -this is wrong
Unless there’s severe myopia or a lazy eye it does seem odd to have been diagnosed so young. - i’ll let you have this although there are caveats
The average is usually about 5 for diagnosis- this is wrong

I’d look for an independent firm, rather than a chain. Much more borough and better at explaining in my experience.

Mari babies are not myopic, you are right that the visual pathway is developing for several years after birth but most babies are not shortsighted but longsighted, development of visual acuity after birth is due to maturation of the fovea and visual pathway. Most refractive error is axial due to the length of the eye back to front. Myopic eyes have a longer axial length and hypermetropia eyes a shorter axial length

Breast side story- what you said was totally wrong - you said most babies are myopic. It is in fact highly unusual. The vast majority of babies and young children are hypermetropic (“longsighted”). This is normal and as the eyes grow as the child gets older the longsightedness reduces to nothing.

If you don’t have any knowledge or understanding of medical things, why post as if you do?

And yes, why go to a different Specsavers - why not go to a good independent optician who will spend more time with you?

user you need to look up what "carrIer" means.
Girls can be carriers, but you can't tell without doing a genetic test OR if the child's own dad is colour blind.
In this case the child's DGF is, so the OP is a carrier (as she must have got an X chromosome from her father), but the OP has another X and that may not be affected, so your DD8 may not be.

Rodders92 read the full thread.

Breastside was asking what she’d written that was incorrect, my post was her post copied and my comments on what she’d got incorrect

Mari sorry misread what you were saying

I tend to avoid all large chain type opticians TBH.

An optometrist is an optometrist. I have had amazing service in Specsavers where they spotted and diagnosed an issue which ultimately needed hospital referral and laser treatment.

'An optometrist is an optometrist.'

Well technically yes.

We could say that about any profession.

However I find some more thorough and experienced and personable than others.

Various branches of specsavers have been amazing with me and my family over the years including picking up things missed at independent opticians. Their aftercare has also been great

I don’t think you can judge beyond the branch you use of anywhere. Some chain branches are amazing others less so. Some independent are amazing others less so

In general though in a large chain optician there is a huge amount of pressure on the optometrists to see as many patients as possible each day, hence the eye tests being done as quickly as possible- can be as little as 15 minutes. In my opinion you can’t do a good eye test in such a short amount of time.

Optometrist here.
Used to work for a big chain and yes you are double booked beyond belief so sight tests very rushed. Hence I quit and now work for an independent where I get a reasonable amount of time to test. Some branches of multiples are ok though - depends on who the manager is and whether it’s a franchise or not.

As for OP, a baby being born myopic is very unusual but can happen - especially in certain conditions like Marfan syndrome. Most babies are born hyperopic and grow out of it (again there are exceptions to the rule).

If babies dad is colourblind then she will be a carrier. The colour defect is carried on the X chromosome so the X chromosome from dad will have the defect I.e. she would be a carrier. For baby to be colourblind, mum would have to be colourblind too.

If babies grandfather is colourblind then she MAY be a carrier, she may not. 50/50 chance of receiving the faulty X chromosome from mum.

*maternal grandfather that is