CHILDREN’S EYE HEALTH AND EYEWEAR

EYE HEALTH--

Susan, 13, is a voracious reader, but recently she has been complaining of eye strain, double vision, and headaches after doing her homework using a number of books. She squints often, rubbing her eyes or simply closing them. What Susan may be experiencing is an often-noticed vision disorder labeled CONVERGENCE INSUFFICIENCY, where the eyes tend to drift outwardly on reading or doing other close work. At Advanced Eyecare of Arizona, Susan can undergo a unique treatment that utilizes contact lenses, which may well correct the problem.

Like many of his peers, Dylan, 11, spends hours in front of the computer. He was finding that his eyes were often tired and irritated, and he told his parents of this difficulty.
On visiting our practice, Dylan was diagnosed with COMPUTER VISION SYNDROME and prescribed a quality pair of computer eyeglasses that are allowing him to clearly see the computer screen as well as the work on his desk and the area beyond the computer monitor. At our practice, he and his mom and dad are also educated in ergonomically targeted techniques that modify his computer-area environment and make his school-time and his videogame-time at the computer far more enjoyable…and, of course, far less taxing on his eyes.

At 4 years of age, Eric was exhibiting signs of lessened vision by holding his toys very close to his eyes. There was an ever-so-tiny deviation in the preschooler’s eyes, but Eric’s parents and his pediatrician had not noticed that particular malady. They were concerned, though, and a visit to the eye doctor seemed the best course of action. In Eric’s case, the diagnosis was AMBLYOPIA or LAZY EYE, which was forcing the child to use his better—or dominant—eye at playtime. One of our ODs noted the misalignment and recommended covering the child’s stronger eye with a patch so that he was forced to use his weaker eye, thereby helping to strengthen it. The timing was most certainly right for this strategy as waiting till ages 6 through 9 years to correct this problem is, unfortunately, often too late to result in vision improvement.

If your child has an eye-related emergency, we will make an appointment SAME DAY. (And that, of course, goes for you parents as well!)

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EYEWEAR--

Kids are often as fashionably passionate about their eyewear as their moms and dads, and Advanced Eyecare of Arizona has an ever-growing selection of frames in styles and colors galore--with and without designer names--to satisfy that not-so-childish craving in the younger set.

And for all the youthful sports stars 18 years old and under out there—and even the young spectators—polycarbonate lenses in their specs are the way to go for safety and styling.

It goes without saying that our practice motto, “For vision. For life. Eyecare you can trust!”, applies to each and every one of our patients, no matter what age.