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Keeping tabs on your child?s health and well-being is a priority for parents: you schedule annual visits with their paediatrician, and you get their teeth checked at the dentist every six months or so. Great! But when was the last time you had your child?s eye health assessed by a professional"
Eye health & exams
The Canadian Association of Optometrists recommends school-age children (six to 19 years old) have their eyes checked once a year1. Yet, according to a 2021 survey conducted by CooperVision Canada and Maru/Blue, only 55 percent of Canadian parents with children under 14 say they take their kids for an annual eye exam2.
Annual eye exams for children are not only quick and easy, they?re an important way to monitor your child?s vision and eye health. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and comprehensive eye exams performed by an optometrist can detect a wide array of issues?from blurry vision to brain tumours3?early, so they can be properly treated and managed. An annual eye exam is also the best way to identify nearsightedness, also known as myopia, in children?and myopia is a medical condition that should be taken seriously.
Myopia 101
Myopia, which usually starts in childhood and progresses until about age 20, is a common visual condition that makes it difficult for kids to see objects in focus at a distance. It can be worsened by the overuse of ?near vision? (i.e., looking at things close up), which happ...