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anyones kid wear en eye patch?

110 replies

nitfreecod · 08/02/2006 15:59

not a pirate one!

ds3 has mild ptosis and will ahev surgety eventually. he has gone today and they did an eye test and said that his bad eye is not developing as fast as his good one ( altho si stil pretty good and is not deteriorating)

anyway to try and make him use t he bad one he has to wear patches.

UI feel realy sad abotu this for no real reason but feelt hat in the grandcale fo things it coudl eb a lot worse
it sfor 6 weeks at first 4 hours aday

am going to get " the borhters" to ge on board and we are watching spongebont h e movie tonight to have a close look at pirates.

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cod · 11/02/2006 22:45

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myturn · 11/02/2006 22:48

dd4 (5) has glasses and has to wear an eye patch for 2 hours every day. She has the cloth ones - very brightly colours with pictures on. She still hates wearing it though and I havent ever been able to get her to wear it for the full 2 hours. Infact, I am ashamed to say that I keep forgetting to put it on her which isn't helping her eyesight to improve quickly.

Well done Cod on getting ds to wear his for 4 hours! Don't know how you do it.

cod · 11/02/2006 22:52

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cod · 11/02/2006 22:53

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myturn · 12/02/2006 10:06

Star chart idea is very good. Will try that from today. dd has been trying to 'lose' her glasses lately. She has succeeded with one pair already. I am going to have to go off now and hunt for them again...

No wonder this is a bit of an emotional area for you, considering what happened to dh.

cod · 12/02/2006 10:21

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lou33 · 12/02/2006 10:26

DS2 had to wear them, they came with stickers. He was about the same age and didn't seem to be bothered. We managed to get him wearing it while we were in the house most of the time, but the times he had to go out with it on, noone was that interested.

cod · 12/02/2006 10:34

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lou33 · 12/02/2006 11:31

the patch?

no

lol

he had to have his eye operated on

doesnt mean the same result for yours tho

k74 · 12/02/2006 17:16

Hypoallergenic - can you get those from the eye dept? And cloth ones?

Dd gets a mark like when a price tag won't come off and it stays there for a few hours afterwards.

She only has to wear hers for an hour a day.
And she has been really good about it, must be really weird.

lou33 · 12/02/2006 17:50

yes, we got hypoallergenic ones from the eye clinic for the same reasons

cod · 12/02/2006 17:51

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longwaytogo · 12/02/2006 18:58

Gosh this brings back memories. DD 2 had to patch all day every day for 4 years, changed to 4 hours a day when we moved as different opthamologists have different ideas. How ever much improvement you get before the age of 7 is basically as good as it gets as their eyesight sets at 7yr. My dd had glasses to start with but used to take them off and stamp on them, we used to spend more time at the optitians than at home. lol

She has had a contact lens though since age 4 and now at 11 is a pain in the neck to get it in, even though without it she is as blind as a bat in that eye.

Miaou what reason does your dd wear glasses like i said my dd has had contact since age 4 mind you glasses don't change her vision so its a necessity rather than just not liking glasses

VeniVidiVickiQV · 12/02/2006 19:04

Oh i had to do all this when i was small! I wasnt so great at wearing the patches but girls dont do the pirate thing so much i suppose . I ended up having two ops to try to correct it.

Your DS seems to be doing fab with it though, well done you for getting him to stick with it - he is young so he's being really good. As your DH probably knows, its no big deal not to be able to get the magic eye pictures or see 3d films in cinemas.

cod · 21/02/2006 19:04

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uwila · 21/02/2006 20:10

Hi Cod. Hope you little man is still doing well. When I was his age, I had surgery on a lazy eye followed by wearing a patch on the other eye for a few weeks, then glasses for a few years. I didn't really mind the patch -- hated the glasses though.

And, did you say your DS3 will be 3 on March 22nd?

carol3 · 26/02/2006 08:09

dd3 was born cross eyed so have been through 3 opps and 2 bouts of patching. She's 2 and a bit now. The first time we had to patch was when she was 6 months and it was really hard as she just pulled it of at every oportunity, the only suggestion from the hospital was to put her arms in splints so she couldn't bend her arms to pull it off ! In the end they found some large very thick elastoplast patches that were really sticky so very hard to pull of. First bout of patching ended when she was 14 months. She then had an op in aug 05 to make her eyes look straighter as they where always pointing in opposite direction. Which went fine. But then she started to favour one eye again so the other eye became very weak.
We statred pating again sept 05 at four hours a day. Last month we where told she could drop to 2 hours a day. Have another appointment next week so hope we can stop then. My dd hates the sticky patches, so have been recently using the cloth pirate patches which she loves. Also i bought several so she can choose which one she wears which makes her thinks shes in charge, very important for a 2 year old. Her favourate is her cat one with pictures of kittens on.
Also have tried kids sunglasses with lenses removed and a cloth glasses patch covering the glasses. This works well to and again gives more choice.

cathyspam · 26/02/2006 08:14

my brother had one when he was little - his friends thought it was cool and were fascinated really.

dinny · 26/02/2006 08:25

I had an eye patch for a year. Is ptosis a lazy eye? My patch didn't help at all really. But I don't wear glasses now, my good eye has compensated.

I HATED my patch, tbh. Wasn't exactly an attractive child so it was the icing on the cake to have a big brown plaster permanently on face.

HappyMumof2 · 26/02/2006 08:28

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dinny · 26/02/2006 08:30

happymum, pmsl (sorry!) at thought of you wearing an eye patch at home. I can't see at all through bad eye really. do worry about damaging good eye (but then suppose bad one would strengthen naturally??)

HappyMumof2 · 26/02/2006 08:32

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dinny · 26/02/2006 08:34

ha ha. I do have glasses I am supposed to wear for reading/close work but I look SO deranged in them. They magnify my bad eye and the other one stays normal size. DH falls about laughing when I put them on (which I never do now!) Nice!

HappyMumof2 · 26/02/2006 08:52

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