Opticians contradicting each other!

[NakedMum33and3rd]

Hi,

I took my DS4 for an eye test about 4 months ago as he was complaining things were fuzzy and he started blinking excessively.
We went to a well known optician. They were great with him. He had to have the drops in to dilate his pupils. The optician said he was long sighted and that it was fairly common at his age but she gave him a prescription for glasses and told us that he should wear them all the time.
Within a few days the blinking had stopped and he was preferring to wear them all the time as opposed to not.
We went back after 3 month as requested by the optician and saw a different person. This person barely looked in his eyes as she was not equipped to do a child's eye test. He is still working on his letter recognition. She said she had no idea why he was given glasses, all children are long sighted and that he shouldn't be wearing them.

I'm so confused. He is much happier with them. He doesn't blink constantly as he was before (I tried him without them for a day and the blinking started and he was frowning).
Would you get a second opinion/third opinion? Shall I go to a different optician completely?

Will another eye test still be available on the NHS even though he had one two weeks ago?

Sorry for the essay!

Do you have a copy of the prescription as it depends how long sighted he is? Is there someone else there you could consult about it?

Second one doesn't sound like they did a good job at all! I'd want another appointment and a proper check

Can you go back and see the first optometrist again? I would certainly try and get a proper three month review as was requested. It's also not essential for little ones to know their letters, they can use a different style of test where the child will show a matching shape on a card to the one they see on the chart.

It's true enough that children tend to be longsighted and become less so as they grow, but really there is not cut off for should have or should not have glasses....if anyone has a prescription they feels is benefiting them then it makes sense to have the specs

On the other side of the coin my children were all shortsighted but up until about 10 they would swear they could see fine without their specs....because everything they needed to see was close enough the specs were just not providing enough of an improvement for them to feel the need (iyswim) Once they were at secondary school, having to get buses, learn in bigger class rooms, use blackboards more....they all started wearing their specs.