Re: Child & Contacts - Should I take him to another doc?
- From: DarkProtoman <Protoman2050@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:54:45 -0700
On 23 Jun, 18:49, DarkProtoman <Protoman2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 23 Jun, 17:42, "FKS" <f...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
My 12 year old son is near sighted and wants to try contacts because several
of his classmates have started wearing them. He has been seeing the same
pediatric ophthalmologist since he was born (the doc is good). The way
contacts are presribed at his medical group is that his assistant does the
fitting and teaches the child how to use contacts.
My son has had two 30 minutes sessions with the female assistant and he has
not been able to put them in & take them out. I asked her to give me
contacts so that my son could practice at home, but she said, "For safety, I
cannot give you contacts unless he puts them in & takes them out in front of
me."
So, we have another session next week but I highly doubt that my son can
suddenly handle contacts. The point that I'm making is, "Is it a standard
procedure not to give contacts to me (and my son) in this situation?"
Without contacts, how can my son practice and how can I teach him? I don't
know how many sessions my son would need.
Can I ask for the prescription and order contacts on-line? Thanks.
Let me tell you something: contacts are very uncomfortable to wear. My
friend who wears them --I wear specs-- says that when she first got
them, they felt like she had sand in her eyes for weeks. Also, you can
lose contacts *very* easily; I doubt your 12yr old would enjoy
spending a good 15 minutes looking for a plastic disc the size of a
dime, when he could be out playing or studying. Just get him a pair of
stylish Flexon --they're the kind you could run over w/ a freight
train and they wouldn't break-- glasses w/ lenses that are:
Apochromatic --correct chromatic abberations in all three primary
colors; not achromatic, they only correct two primary colors--
Atoric --corrects spherical abberations in all directions; not
aspheric, they only correct the x, y, and z axes--
ECM-9 polycarbonate --even thinner than normal CR-39 polycarbonate--
Anti-reflective coating --reduces glare; you can see clearer--
Anti-scratch coating --duh!--
Photochromic coating --makes the lenses change from clear to dark in
sunlight; w/ contacts you'd need a pair of superexpensive sunglasses--
Something cool you can do w/ eyeglasses you can't do w/ contacts:
widen your eyes, look over the lenses, and sardonically grin and show
your teeth; this creeps all my friends out.
If he really doesn't want to wear eyeglasses, get an opthalmologist to
do wavefront LASIK on his eyes.
Hope this helps!!!- Hide quoted text -
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Almost forgot. Dr. Leif Hertzog in Long Beach, CA is my internist's,
and soon to be my, opthalmologist. http://www.hertzogeyeassociates.com
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