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Getting children to wear their eye patch

2008-06-11 15:32:36 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Health News News)

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Seattle, Washington (CaymanMama.com) — CNN reported that children with a “lazy eye” or amblyopia are told by their doctors to wear an eye patch but usually tend to pull it off within seconds. Kelly Harmsen, a mother of 2-year old Joshua with similar problem got an idea of making a puppet wearing eye patch which will motivate her son to wear his patch. She got this idea when she saw her son see a cartoon which had an eye-patch wearing character and take off his eye patch and wear it on his own. Now she has been selling such products in the market which serve as a motivator for children to wear their eye-patches.

With cartoons, celebrities and puppets wearing patches and glasses, children now understand that wearing them is no longer an ugly or scary thing. Today, young children enjoy using various options to correct their eye like wearing glasses of various styles and colors. Barry Kay, an optometrist in Florida, says that there are many children between 5-10 years of age who fake eye problems because they like to wear cool frames and want to look like their friends who wear them. A recent study carried out by the Ohio State University published last month revealed that children between 6-10 years think that people who are wearing glasses are more honest and smart than the people who do not wear them. Movie and TV icons such as Harry Potter help children to view them as normal and even attractive. Photochromic glasses which become dark in sun light and clear inside the house really attract the children.

Bright color frames such as pink and blue are very popular among children and there are also frames which feature cartoons over them. Although wearing lenses is also an option available to children as small as 8 year olds but Norman Medow, an ophthalmologist, says that more often than not, children wear lenses only if there is large prescription for them, their ears are unusually formed which prevent them from wearing glasses.



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