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Eyes and Vision

Health Information from our Experts

  • I took my child to his pediatrician because of runny eyes and the doctor said he had an ear infection. Do ear and eye infections go together?

  • My child seems to squint when looking at objects. Should I have his eyes checked?

  • My daughter has a "lazy eye." What is meant by a "lazy eye?"

  • What is a sty?

  • Is there any way a parent can tell if their child needs glasses?

  • My daughter is developing a painful sty in her eye. Is there any way I can stop this before it gets too far?

  • My son is almost 9 months old. During a doctors appointment last week, his pediatrician was examining his ears. Tyler cried very hard. When the examination was over, I noticed a red spot in the white of his eye. I was "talking" to Tyler and asked him

  • I received an email today warning about the dangers of using waterproof sunscreen. It said that getting sunscreen in the eye can cause blindness. I am very concerned. Is this true?

  • My four-month-old daughter has uneven pupil sizes when you bring her into a darkened room. In bright lighting her pupils look the same size, but the right eye's pupil becomes noticeably larger than the left eye as soon as she is in a darker area. Pleas

  • My granddaughter recently had her eyes tested in school with the following results: both eyes 20/50, left eye 20/70, right eye 20/50. My question is, how bad are those figures. My daughter made an appointment for her with an ophthalmologist. She seems t

  • Can wearing glasses(myopia)cause further weakening of eyes in school going children ? My son is 10 years old and got a prescription for both eyes (-0.75). Aren't contact lenses "safer"? I heard many different opinions.

  • My eight year old daughter spends hours playing computer games. Does spending too much time in front of the computer hurt her vision?

  • My 7 year old son's eyes have recently begun to "stray" or not both look at the same thing at the same time. One eye tends to turn out more. The eye doctor so far has said that is developmental and will correct itself, but over the last month it has gotton

  • My 6 year old daughter was shifting her head from side to side when watching TV so I took her to an eye doctor who recommended glasses for the short term and eye exercises in the future. He said that the muscles were not strong enough to allow her clear

  • My son who is 2 1/2 seems to be getting pink eye quite often. What exactly is this and how is it contracted. Will this damage his eye when he gets older? How serious is this? He does go to a babysitters house with other children but sometimes he gets pink

  • My 10 year old spends many hours in front of the computer. Will it cause any vision problems?

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