Myopia?

16 Jan 2008 7 Comments

by my2lovelyrays in Uncategorized

Does Your Child Have Myopia?

Myopia is commonly known as “shortsightedness”. A person with myopia is able to see close objects clearly but objects that are further away will appear blurred.

In Singapore, about half of our children develop myopia by the age of 12 years. Children are also becoming more myopic at a younger age.

This is a really worrying trend. Of course I am worried, because both David and myself wear glasses. Chances the kids may be shortsighted increases tremendously although I didn’t need glasses till I was in my 20s but David has been wearing glasses since he was in Primary 1.

Anyway, the Health Promotion Board visited the school and did an eye screening test for all the K1 students.

And this is the results, till this very day, I don’t really know what it says about his eye sight.

Vision without glass

LogMAR Right eye +0.18 / Left eye +0.24

Computed Snellen Right eye 6/7.5p / Left eye 6/9.5p

Stereopsis: Normal

Examination Notes: Vision screening done – Normal Vision

The only thing I can understand from the screening is, his vision is normal but how normal?  Far from perfect eye sight or near shortsighting??? Think I am going to bring him to a optician to get a proper reading and screening.

And only yesterday, I found out from Rayner that the Nurse actually taught them eye relaxing exercises.

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