July 1, 2021 - EyeClarity Podcast
In this episode I talk to a mother who is concerned about her daughter’s strong farsighted prescription. She says her daughter is not having any symptoms and she is functioning at a high level. She asked for a second opinion from me.
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Well, what I see here is that there doesn’t seem to be any developmental delays at all. So the sensory-motor system has developed? Well, it doesn’t seem like there’s any interference or impediment in the developmental motor process, because that’s where you begin to start to see some, you know, some disconnects. And the visual acuity for distance is really a poor measurement of vision. Because the distance acuity is basically just your eyesight. It’s not really vision, vision is how the eyes and the brain work together. And so when they’re referring you, it’s kind of the wrong referral. Because the eyesight is clear, they don’t, they’re not really getting what vision is. So vision would be things like visual tracking, shifting focus from near to far, depth perception. And there are some eye exercises, I can show you, that could help the visual tracking, visual focusing, and visual coordination, which would strengthen the visual system. So in lieu of getting glasses, which is really going to weaken the eyes, especially what they’re promoting, it actually makes no sense why they would want to promote that because it’s only going to weaken the eyes. And there’s nothing really wrong here. So your intuition is correct, in that you don’t really want or need to go down that road. First of all, you’ll get the glasses, she’s not going to wear them. And second of all, it’s just going to make her eyes work when they’re looking at an eye chart. I mean, the best way to really tell if there’s a vision problem is give a person something to read, have them read it, and watch what they’re doing to their face, if they’re covering one eye, if there’s eye strain, things like that. There are some eye exercises that kind of support depth perception. And I can show you those. And then I know you could take it from there. But I don’t think there needs to be a lot of intervention right now. And the glasses would be going down the wrong road. So one of the things you can do is you can test by having her look at something through her right eye and then having her look through something through her left eye and get a report. Is there a difference between the eyes? Now today, when I asked Hazel to do that, I didn’t really hear that there was any difference between the eyes. So if she’s not objectively observing a difference, then there’s really nothing to worry about. If we want to be more proactive, about the eyes working together. Again, there are one or two eye exercises that I could show you that could strengthen the coordination. And I think I should show you those. But aside from that, subjectively, just keep testing her to say well, how do you see it through the right eye? How do you see it through the left eye? It sounds like her two eyes are seeing it fairly similarly. When we tested it out, and I think you know if you’re driving, do it. If you’re, you know, looking at the computer screen, say well look through your right eye and look through your left eye. Do you see any differences or that kind of thing?
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Does it make sense? Okay. Yeah. And the other. The other thing about it is that, in the eye doctors when she was reading the eye chart, there was nothing that came out that said, Oh, my goodness, she’s seeing a lot worse, out of one eye versus the other, only for eye health. If you want to get a better view of the retina, when you dilate the eyes, you are losing the opportunity to see how the eyes organically respond naturally. Because once you put a drug in the muscles, the muscles are not responsive anymore, they’re paralyzed. So you’re not going to get true responsiveness, because the drug is interfering with the person’s ability to organically respond. So if that’s her thinking, then you’re in the wrong office. I mean, that just makes no sense. So you don’t want to use dilated drops if you’re trying to figure out a prescription, because all you’re going to get is the maximum that the person is aware of. And the thing is, is the doctors then give that and it creates an incredible amount of distortion and eye strain, because you measured the maximum, while your eyes are never going to be in that state again unless they’re dilated. And the difference between 2020 and 20/25 is minimal. If we’re looking at 20/20 versus 20/40, or 20/50, then there’s something there to examine. But when what you’re telling me, again, it sounds like you’re getting bad advice here, you’re the person who’s running the show doesn’t really understand the functional aspects of vision. They’re just looking at it from an optics, something they learned in school about eyedrops. But you never want to prescribe. Once you dilated the eyes, you’re only doing that because you want to get a better look in the back of the eye. It’s counter, it’s very counter. what I’m telling you is very counter, what they’re doing. But you know, the people that I trained with, they were specialists in the area of developmental children’s vision. And a place where I trained is called the gazelle Institute. Because owl was in New Haven, Connecticut, affiliated with Yeon Gazelle was a child development specialist. And when I went there in the mid-80s, I really learned how to evaluate children. And the saying is, is that when you evaluate a child, child’s vision, you’re looking at the whole child, not just the eyeball, what you’re getting is some isolated eyeball, you know, number, whenever to look at you look at the number of the person behind the number. And you look at the lifestyle and you look at you know, are there any subjective complaints? So, you’re doing absolutely no harm. I saying yeah, we’re just gonna wait.
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