hey doc

[jk the sooner fan]

i realize you're not an eye doctor, but i saw something saturday evening that puzzled me

a woman with a little girl, who was no more than one year old - the kid had on eyeglasses

as detailed as i remember eye exams to be "does it look better with this? or with this?"

how do they do an eye exam with a child who cant communicate enough to complete that kind of eye exam?

[sooner_born_1960]

according to this:
http://www.uic.edu/com/eye/LearningAboutVision/EyeFacts/BabyEyes.shtml
a babies eyes aren't fully developed until 2 years.

[OUDoc]

I'm not really sure. Eye docs have got some cool machines to play with, I'd guess one of them does the trick. What's really cool is that ear docs can determine an infants hearing with something called BAER(brainstem auditory evoked response) (http://www.lsu.edu/deafness/baerexpl.htm). Somehow it determines whether or not you hear the test signal, even if you can't communicate. Maybe they use something similar.

BTW: That link above is on dogs, but somehow they do something similar to humans. I've never seen one done to tell you how it differs.
Here's a better link (although I never answered your original question. :D) http://www.chsd.org/1799.cfm

[crawfish]

I think it's a tumor.

[jk the sooner fan]

interesting, thanks.

[Howzit]

I think it's a tumor.

Ganglion cyst, prolly.

[OUinFLA]

wow it only took 4 posts to jack the thread.
and then Howzit shows up :rolleyes:

[jk the sooner fan]

according to that link, eye glasses for infants are normally used to correct lazy eye.....

[BoogercountySooner]

They have a machine that can measure the eye and get close to the prescrption that is needed.

[Tailwind]

Machines is cool!

[frankensooner]

I have a nephew that has worn glasses since he was around a year old. I thought it was strange back then, he is around 20 now.