Symptoms of eye problems among children

Parents may mistakenly believe that if their child has trouble seeing, they'll tell them about the problem. But most kids don't even know that they have a problem. To them, the way they see is normal.

Examples of some symptoms we should look out for.

1. If your child avoids close work or seems to have a short attention span when doing close work, such as reading or working on the computer.
2. If you feel like your child should be a lot brighter than school results indicates,
3. If your child is bumping into things a lot, or
4. If you see that one eye doesn't quite follow the other as it should,
5. If you have any serious eye problems that run in the family, such as glaucoma or an eye turn

Particularly for point (5), your child should begin having professional eye exams starting as early as 6 months of age.