Vision Screening and Treatment
The first eye checkup can be done by a pediatrician, the school nurse, an eye specialist or your family doctor. Even though experts don’t see eye to eye when it comes to choosing the right person for your child’s vision screenings and examinations, many pediatricians and ophthalmologists feel that these types of checkups can be a part of your child’s routine pediatric examinations. Naturally, it is expected that a child will get a referral to an eye care provider in case any problem is detected.
However, optometrists believe it’s best for a child to undergo regular and frequent eye exams by an eye care professional. Further, if there is family history of eye problems, you should take your child to examinations more often than you generally would.
Eye doctors that offer different types of eye care have pretty similar titles and this may sometimes be really confusing. To clear that up:
Ophthalmologists
An ophthalmologist are medical doctors are in charge of providing comprehensive eye care with medicine and surgery.
Pediatric Ophthalmologists
Pediatric ophthalmologists are doctors that have undergone additional special training and are specialized for treating kids’ eye problems.
Optometrists
An optometrist offer services that are similar to that of ophthalmologists’, but they don’t perform surgery.
Opticians
An optician is in charge of fitting and adjusting eyeglasses.
Whichever option you choose it is of utmost importance to be on top of your child’s changing in sight. Once you notice something is different, or the child complains about some changes he/she has been experiencing react as soon as possible and don’t leave anything to case. Nowadays, variety of vision problems can be fixed with technology that has advanced much in the past twenty years for example, you can Take lasik eye surgery to help improve your child’s vision. It is an amazing way for the sight impairment to be dealt with, quickly and for good. Obviously, this kind of treatment isn’t something you will be deciding on, but your child’s doctor. This is why regular doctor visits are more than advised.
Have you taken your child to see the eye doctor?
4 comments
My son had his eye checked recently. Nothing serious, just a routine physical examination at school where they have everything checked, including the eyes.
That is good. A visit to the eye includes a few additional tests in the US.
Very useful & informative. Vision screening must be part of your child’s routine pediatric check-ups. A more severe type of conjunctivitis that can affect newborn babies younger than 28 days. Most cases of conjunctivitis in babies are not particularly serious. But there is a small possibility of serious complications if it’s left untreated. If you notice any complexities in your baby’s eyes, contact your doctor for advice.
I hate pink eye and I try to take my kids to the doctor as soon as I notice. Unfortunately, if you have allergies you are more likely to get it too. I get pink eye even as an adult because of allergies.