It’s a good policy to visit your optometrist annually, and I
try to do just that. It’s all part of taking care of the health of your eyes. Even
though I know the condition that affects my sight, this doesn’t mean that I am exempt
from other conditions - conditions such as macular degeneration, glaucoma or
cataracts. A person can have more than one condition in the same eye. Most of these can be detected when you visit
your optometrist.
Most of the adults I speak with do take good care of their
eyes, but did you know that it is also important for children to have their
eyes checked? Last week I went with my daughter when she took their nine month
old to the optometrist. I was curious to see what he would do. Obviously our granddaughter
was too young to read the big E at the top of the chart.
The optometrist was excellent. He sat on the floor with Lexi
and moved a small object back and forth to determine if her eyes were tracking together.
Later he took a small light to look into her pupils and used lenses of varying
strengths to look behind the eye. Lexi was fascinated by the light and the
small toy that the optometrist held in his other hand.
I told my Monday morning coffee group about the exam, saying
I didn’t know that babies this young should have their eyes checked. Cindy, one of the women in the group, said
that her grandson had had eye surgery at the age of six months. I guess it’s
never too early, and the good part is that the eye exam was covered by Alberta
Health Care.
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