The Importance of an Eye Exam
A good comprehensive eye test does more than just determine your prescription for glasses or contact lenses. Your optometrist will check your eyes for common eye diseases, assess how your eyes work together as a team and evaluate your eyes as an indicator of your overall health.
The Importance of Eye Exams
Your optometrist will check:
- Refractive Error. This will determine if you are short sighted, far sighted or have astigmatism.
- Amblyopia. Often called a “lazy eye”. If left untreated, a “lazy eye” can result in permanent vision impairment.
- Strabismus. This is a crossed eye or turned eye. Your optometrist will check the alignment of your eyes to make sure the two eyes work together.
- Eye Teaming Problems. Sometimes the eyes don’t work together as a team. This will result in headaches, eyestrain and can affect reading and other near vision tasks.
- Focusing Problems
- Eye Diseases
Who Should Get Their Eyes Examined?
Everyone. Adults need to get their eyes tested to get their current pairs of spectacles updated and to check for early signs of eye disease. Children need to get regular check ups to ensure normal visual development and for academic achievement.
Vision is closely linked to the learning process. Children who have difficulty seeing or interpreting what they see will often have trouble with their schoolwork. Often, children will not complain of vision problems simply because they don’t know what “normal” vision looks like.
If your child performs poorly at school or has a reading or learning disability, be sure to have his eyes examined to rule out an underlying visual cause.
Treatment after your Eye Exam
After your eye exam, your optometrist will either prescribe spectacles, contact lenses or vision therapy depending on the results.
No matter who you are, regular eye exams are important for seeing more clearly, learning more easily and preserving your vision for life.
Don’t delay. Schedule an appointment with your optometrist now!
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