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She’d Never Had an Eye Test. At 15, One Eye Was Highly Myopic at -4.75

A fifteen-year-old girl sat in my chair recently for her very first eye test. She’d never complained about her vision. Her schoolwork was fine, she read on her phone like every other teenager, and nobody at home had noticed anything at all. She was there mainly because she’d never had one. Her left eye came

Is Your Child Really Short-Sighted? Why a Standard Eye Test Isn’t Always Enough

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Imagine this: your child comes home squinting at the whiteboard, you book an eye test, and the optometrist says they’re short-sighted. A prescription is written, glasses are ordered, and everyone moves on. But what if that diagnosis — and that treatment plan — was based on an incomplete picture? It happens more than most parents

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