For more details on children's vision care, maintaining your family's eye health and vision correction options visit The Vision and Eye Care Guide.
Archive for the ‘Vision Care’ Category
Children’s Vision Care – Keep Their Focus on Fun
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
When we were children we all loved to play. We loved to ride our bicycles and were constantly playing with toy cars or dolls. Most children enjoy active pastimes and sports of all sorts such as soccer, softball and basketball. If, however, a child suffers from one of the many eye conditions they cannot always fully enjoy these types of activities. It is therefore vitally important that we, as parents, monitor our childrenâs vision from an early age so that we can detect any eye condition that may affect them in the long term.
Eye Examinations Before Learning Begins
The American Optometric Association suggests that young children have a comprehensive vision examination when they are six-months-old, this should be followed up when they reach three-years-of age and again when they are five-years old. In particular, children should receive a thorough eye examination during the summer before starting kindergarten. After testing is completed, an expert will review the data and then write a comprehensive report. Childrenâs vision care examinations can reveal that children suffer from one of several types of eye conditions.
These common eye conditions include conjunctivitis or "pink eye" which is an infection that involves the eyeâs outermost layer. It includes three types of condition (namely allergic, bacterial and viral), each of which require unique types of treatment. With the exception of the allergic variety, this disease is generally extremely contagious.
Another common condition that young children are prone to is crossed eyes (also referred to as wandering eye or wall eye), which is an eye condition that can be readily detected through regular childrenâs vision care and examination. This condition affects approximately 4% of American children. This visual defect causes both eyes to point in different directions. For example, one eye may look straight ahead, while the other looks either up, down, in or out. Accordingly sufferers of this condition experience eyes that cannot see as a single unit, and cannot see in a three dimensional form. Children with this condition should receive professional vision therapy as early as possible.
Thirdly, slightly more than 10% of the entire U.S. population suffers from Binocular Vision Impairment, which can be detected via childrenâs vision care. It causes the two eyes to not function collectively and as a consequence the child will experience a partial or complete inability to function simultaneously. People who suffer from this condition are not be able to view and gauge depths nor are they able to see in three dimensions.
Finally, Amblyopia (or lazy eye) is a visual impairment that regular childrenâs vision care and examination can also readily detect. This condition affects roughly 2-3% of children in the U.S. and is as a result of poor control of muscles in a single eye, or reduced visual clarity. Children with this eye problem often develop problems relating to depth perception, and seeing in three dimensions. It is very important that this visual problem be detected early, as visual therapy can have a positive impact on it.
Vision Problems Can Affect Learning
Further, it is vitally important to detect if your child has learning-related visual problems as soon as possible. If you think that your child is experiencing difficulties in this regard then spend some time observing your child to determine if he:
* Blinks, squints or rubs his eyes constantly after doing close visual work
* Complains about cloudy vision after reading or schoolwork
* Holds objects extremely close to his face so as to see clearly
* Has difficulty differentiating left from right, tying shoelaces, or catching a ball
* Complains of eyestrain or regular headaches
* Experiences low reading compression
* Avoids reading
* Complains of being exhausted after reading
* Periodically reverses letters or words
Childhood is a fun and wonderful time which should be one of the best time of a personâs life. Take the time to ensure that your childrenâs vision care is a part of your family's health routine. By taking precautionary steps early in their lives the optometric experts can determine if your child has vision problems and then subsequently introduce the appropriate treatment. Keep your children's eyes healthy and let them focus their attention on having fun and living life to the fullest.
An Approach To Natural Vision Care
The usual step is to treat the symptom of bad vision health, which is poor eyesight, with glasses or contact lenses. This at first looks like it solves the problem, but for a lot of people this is the beginning of a cycle of failing vision and therefore the need for stronger glasses. This is the time for you to invest your efforts in natural vision care.
How to improve your vision? The natural vision system is to teach people how to see without strain. Poor eyesight originates from bad vision habits, like staring and straining to see. Fine natural eyesight can be obtained by education and applying proper vision techniques and habits.
By prescribing more and more stronger lenses to patients whose eyesight grew increasingly worse, did not help their vision health improve.
Natural Vision Improvement is a holistic way to vision care.
Many people start Natural Vision Improvement so they can see more clearly. And, strange enough, they are often surprised when it works. Each person's development is unique, and each person will benefit in different ways.
Vision Educators teach people how to improve their eyesight. They can teach activities and habits to help with:
* Nearsightedness (myopia) * Farsightedness (hyperopia or hypermetropia) * Presbyopia ('middle-age sight') * Astigmatism * Eye fatigue and discomfort * Discomfort in bright light (photosensitivity and photophobia) * Vision related headaches * Computer eye strain (CSS) * Eye teaming difficulties, strabismus and amblyopia * Eye Diseases (for people with cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration etc, who are under the care of an ophthalmologist.)
These are benefits from using and practicing the Natural Vision Improvement system:
* Increased clarity of sight in the distance
* Increased ability to see clearly close-up
* Increased speed of focus
* Healthier eyes
* Greater ease and comfort in and around your eyes
* Less computer eyestrain
* Reduced dependence on glasses
* Enhanced depth perception
* Faster adaptation to bright light and to the dark
* A more relaxed way of being
* Greater connection with yourself and the world around you
* Better balance and coordination
Have you always sought after better vision without glasses, and have you been looking for simpler ways to improve vision? Well, natural vision improvement and rebuilding is possible.
Tip: Most vision problems begin with eye strain and eye stress.
Does natural vision care take up a lot of time?
No, it doesn't. It is mainly about establishing good vision habits by integrating them throughout your day and to replace your current visual habits.
Natural vision care is not just about doing half an hour of exercises a day, and then to do hours of sight activities. No, successful natural vision therapy is about recognizing your habits that are bad for you and, adjusting those habits to become good habits and repeating them till they become natural to you. Meaning that natural vision care is about constantly striving to improve your vision. And, it can be done.
Ruth is actively involved with the internet and she finds it very exciting. Her
passions are people and pet health. She is a wife, a stepmom a dog owner and a business person. She is married for almost 30 years to Chris who has been, and
still is, battling the monster MS. Naturally Rebuilding Vision is a new interest Ruth has delved into. Her
About Page And Her Vision Page