My DD who is 5y 2m has just been diagnosed with a lazy eye. It was picked up at the school vision checks as she is long sighted in one eye (+5.5) the other eye has very good vision - as expected for her age so we never noticed a problem. She has been to the Orthoptic dept at the local hospital and we were given a prescription for glasses to be worn all the time. The Orthoptist said that she would see us again in 8 weeks and see how much difference the glasses have made to see if patching is necessary. The glasses we ordered after appt from opticians are going to take a week or so to come, so in actual fact it will only be 7 weeks or so. Not sure if this makes a difference and should put her appt back...
She said the current level of her eye is such that it would be 6 hour a day patching. If it improved a bit this would go down to 2 hours-obviously a huge difference.
Does anyone know if she will be tested by the Orthoptist with her glasses on at the next appointment, or are they hoping her sight will have improved without the glasses? I should have asked them this, but didn’t think at the time. Really want her to be in the 2hr category if we need to patch, so conscious to give enough time for some improvement.
Must admit I’m a bit confused now, as they said they were hoping to improve the eye and even them up- however not sure if this means without glasses or with glasses. The optician did say she thought she would be able to chose to wear or not wear glasses at times in the future - she did say it may be a bit fuzzy which confused me as it’s not fuzzy for her now, as it’s the good eye doing the work.
Anyone who has been through a long sighted/lazy eye thing, or had any success would be great to hear from!
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Advice on Lazy Eye, Orthoptic etc
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Foresttwo · 16/03/2018 13:00
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