child reading glasses prescription

寄件者: "Lawson's optometrists"
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主旨: Re: child reading glasses prescription
日期: 2007年1月15日 PM 07:16

Dear Sharon Fung
As a Chinese, you should search out who is Dr. XU Guang-di徐廣弟. Our motherland’s great eye doctor who advocates the protection of child's vision as well as the prevention of myopia development. I felt sorrow of nobody is willing to help you in the States, perhaps the standard professional ethnics restricts their willingness.

It is also unethnics for me to advise you in the net about the use of plus together with prism unless you are sitting in my office for consultation. I sincerely recommend you to join the discussion group in www.i-see.org to gain support from those zealous people. The site bases in the States.

Good luck for your kid!

Steve Leung
prevention-minded (HK)

----- Original Message -----
From: rschool0@yahoo.com
To: lawson_s@pacific.net.hk
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 11:56 AM
Subject: child reading glasses prescription

Dear Mr. Leung,

We are in Chicago of U.S. and I haven't found any doctor who is willing to provided the plus lenses prescription for my daughter thought I believe that reading glasses would prevent from increasing myopia and even better to correct the vision. My daughter's is eight year old and her distant glasses is: left eye -1.00-1.00 x 135, right eye -0.5-0.5 x 180. What diopters plus lenses will be fit her?

I am high motivate on using reading glasses for my daughter but I haven't found any optometrist and ophthalmologist to provide the prescription for her. Do you know any doctor in U.S. or H.K. can provide us the reading glasses prescription? Or, where can I get the child reading glasses without doctor's prescription?
Thank you very much in advance and I am looking forward to hearing from soon.

Sharon Fung

P.S. I can read and write in Chinese with my PC, too if that would be convenience for you.


寄件者: "Lawson's optometrists"
收件者:
主旨: Re: child reading glasses prescription
日期: 2007年1月20日 PM 06:38

Hello,
Reply in italics. Because subject to professional ethnics and holding anti-major opinion mind, I reluctant to give full detail explanation. Sorry for the short response.
Steve Leung

----- Original Message -----
From: rschool0@yahoo.com
To: Lawson's optometrists
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: child reading glasses prescription

Dear Mr. Leung,
Thank you for your response!

Where and how can I contact Dr. Xu Guang-di?
He lives in Beijing at age 90. He reminds every eye professional has the obligation to slow down the development of myopia for the own good of all Chinese in getting literacy. He wrote several books about protection and prevention of child's vision 青少年近視防治指南.

I could not find his information online in U.S. I used Snellen chart from i-see to check my daughter's vision. The result were left eye 20/50 and right eye 20/40. She could read some letters on 20/30 with both eyes. I respect your ethnics on your professional. However, I wonder if you would like to explain some questions about my daughter's case.

1. Why did she see better with both eye? Summation of L & R visaul signals. Is this normal or abnormal? Absolute normal.

2. She has astigmatic based on the doctor's prescription. Does her plus lens need to include the figure of CYL and AXIS? No need.

3. Both of her eyes have different based on the prescription and Snellen chart. So, would her plus lens be one eye using higher +D than another (let's say left eye +1.00 D and right eye +1.50 D)? Not necessary, natural eyes would level off in natural environment.

She found lazy-eye on her left eye when she was five. Then, she started to ware glasses for the last three years. With the prescription that I put on my first email, both her eyes could read 20/20 but the right eye was easier than the left eye.

4. When I searched information online in Chinese web sites, I found a term called "wai yin xie ???"? Can you tell me what it is called in English? Heterophoria.

I am frustration of the American doctors here. However, I still want to give my daughter a try on the plus lens. Being a mother, I am strong feeling to do my best for my daughter's vision. I am going to order a plus lens reading glasses for my daughter based on "my own prescription". I realize the risk of this way but I don't have other option now. I hope that you don't mind giving me a hand to clear up my above questions before I give the order. Or, if you have any ideas regard to order plus lens, please just say so. Follow the advice from Otis as he is free to speak out.

I would prefer to communicate in Chinese but I only know to write simplified characters in my PC. I am not sure if you can read simplified Chinese in H.K. I can read both simplified and traditional though. Therefore, I still write to you in English.

I appreciate you help and hope to hear from you soon again.

Sharon Fung



Hello,
Here is my reply.
Work-hard and take your own responsibility to protect your kid's vision.
It is boring, not easy and long long haul till her reaching maturity and even headache.....

best wishes
Steve Leung


----- Original Message -----
From: rschool0@yahoo.com
To: Lawson's optometrists
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:56 AM
Subject: Re: child reading glasses prescription


Dear Mr. Leung,

Thank you very much for your answers! They are valuable information for me. I am going to order the reading glasses in a web site since the optical centers don't take the order without doctor's prescription. Well, I do not have any other option....

I didn't know until today that there are different PD (pupillary distance) for distant and reading glasses. My daughter doesn't cooperate well, plus, I haven't have experience to measure the PD. Her distant glasses of 2006 had PD 56mm, 2005 was 55mm. Based on the average kids, how many mm PD of a reading glasses needs to be shorter than the distant glasses?
Because convergence (turning inwards) of both eyes in reading, deduct the PD by 2 to 4mm will be fine.
Or, should I just use the same PD as her distant glasses?

I am going to order a reading glasses with +2.00 D in both eyes. Would the diopter be appropriate for my daughter?
If she could read at 30~35 cm, I would say the diopter is OK. And you have to figure out what is her habitual reading distance and don't forget PUSH the reading materials OUT otherwise no point in using plus. The idea of plus is to deliberate blur out her print. WHY? -- optically to move near objects out into INFINITY}

I understand your situation under the professional ethnics and other issue. I will take all the responsible for my own decision no matter what you respond. I appreciate your consideration and time.

I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Sharon Fung