Help a mum who is clueless

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My daughter's school carried out a routine check and she failed her eye test. I took her to the Opticians where I was told she needed glasses as vision in one eye is poor.

I was given prescription but I have no idea what it means. The staff unfortunately were not very help 😔. Would appreciate any help, thank you.

Hi OP. Don't worry about understanding the prescription. That's the opticians job! All you need to do is hand that over when you choose some glasses for your daughter, or input those figures online if you order glasses online 🙂

Go to a different optician.

The left eye is perfect. 0.

Her right eye is quite shortsighted. -5.5 is quite shortsighted. It seems unusual. But I'd get another optician.

Thank you.
The staff were awful with helping to pick glasses. Both DH and I are clueless as neither of us wear glasses.
I wanted a better understanding of my daughter eye prescription as she's only 5 and optician was not explaining things in laymans terms at all.

Her right eye is actually LONG sighted. The prescription shows +5.5

The difference between the two eyes is quite unusual, though I guess it might explain why she hasn't complained of not being able to read/see things up close (one eye compensating for the other).

There's no harm in getting a second opinion. But if that prescription is wrong, your DD will fall over when she puts the glasses on! I'd get them made and take it from there - more than likely the prescription is correct.

Good luck!

Just seen that your DD is small.

I would advise getting glasses that are smooth plastic around the bridge of the nose. The ones that have the little wobbly pads on metal stalks bend and snap so easily - solid plastic is the way to go!

Thank you HappyAsASandboy.

I have been so overwhelmed as I am absolutely clueless when it comes to this.

I was told today by a different optician that's its uncommon to have such a big difference between both eyes. (I was going around different opticians trying ri find glasses suitable for her).

What you said makes sense. The Opticians I went to who did the test were unhelpful and have not explained to me anything without using terminology that I dont understand.

So can my daughter not see close up in right eye?

It likely at the moment that she can’t see either distance or close up clearly with that eye. The glasses will help her right eye to see more clearly and over time the vision will improve (but not her prescription).

obviously don’t suggest this to her, but it’s likely that the glasses will a little difficult to adapt to initially and you will need to encourage her to wear them maybe with a sticker ‘bribe’ chart.

it’s unusual, but not that unusual.
They’ll want to re-check her in three months.

If she is long sighted she needs glasses to read.
So yes she can't see well close up.
She can see distance really well.
Her left eye will compensate a lot though.
But I would think her reading speed will be helped by the glasses.

What I am really confused with is that she doesn't seem to have any issue close up. She is reading really well and is at the level a 5 year old should be. She colours beautifully and always in the lines, she has done so since she was 3.5 years old.

I think my dc has a similar prescription at least it is much stronger in one eye.

We were referred to the hospital eye team because he was only 5 and they diagnosed a lazy eye, it was corrected because caught early enough but I would never have noticed it without the eye test and I have only once seen his eye wander to one side. Was ahead of most of his peers with reading and showed no sign of there being a problem to me.

I was told at 5 it was too young to be seen in the opticians so if you can get a referral to a hospital that might be worth looking at?

Thank you.

I was told that they may or may not refer daughter to hospital for eye patches. Was told that daughter vision will change but not her prescription. I am so confused. Will her prescription always remain as 5.5+.

Prescription hasn't changed much over the years one still much stronger but was told eye sight had improved a lot , I didn't actually find this odd until you just said it!

Eye patches were a nightmare to get right but worth it, the glasses have been fine, just a bit of an adjustment.