Thats a really good piece of information, and I totally agree that optician visits should become part of our common health checks for children. We all make a point of taking them to the health visitor as babies, then to the Dr for their vaccinations and then gradual dentist visits to get them used to the big chair and everything that goes with... but many of us never consider the optician... unless we feel/see the need for it... But there's the problem, because the NEED isn't always known to us...
When my daughter had just turned 6 I took a photo of her and one eye flashed up red, the other went white - this I knew could be a sign of something being wrong with the back of the eye so I booked an immediate appt with an optician.
Fortunately the back of the eye was fine, however what he did find was a squint and that my daughter was quite severely long sighted. On the standard eye test she could read only the top 2 rows of letters! We were referred to the hospital where the squint eye was considered so bad they decided the best course of action would be for her to wear a patch for 5hrs a day for 6mths, along with a lovely pair of pink glasses which we chose together - I was devastated.
My point for sharing this is that neither my husband, myself, my daughter's school nor my daughter herself had ever noted, mentioned or felt that her eye sight was anything less than 100% much less that it was so severely poor :(
Opthamologists only have until a child is around 8yrs to really make a huge difference to their sight where required, so please please please take your child for an eye test.x
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