HOW WELL DO YOU SEE?

Visual Acuity is a measure of how well an individual sees. The part of how one sees which is measured in this respect is what we call central vision, thus the part of vision been used when one is looking directly at an object. A lot of things goes into how we see, our eyes ability to resolve two things as been separate, appreciate the nature of an object or how bright it may look all come into consideration when the optometrist measures our vision.

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Now the thing about vision is that any small anomaly could drastically affect it adversely and the sad thing is that there are lots of people walking about who don't even know that they are not seeing. Haha, i know what you're thinking like "hei man, how can one not know that he is not seeing", but then what people don't know is that the eye has weird ways of compensating for things. When you have a sub-optimal vision from childhood and hasn't really been diagnosed you wouldn't really know that how you're seeing is not right.

There are also lots of visual conditions which may not present any symptoms at all or may present itself when is already too late for anything to be done about it. It is for this reason that we advocate a visit to the optometrist atleast once every month for a general workup. For children and infants it is crucial they visit the eye professional before the age of 6 so any abnormality that may be lingering around can be detected early and corrected.

From 6 months to 6 years of a child's life is called the critical period, this because if anything goes wrong with vision at this point in time and is not corrected it may be difficult to treat afterwards if not impossible. A child who is not seeing well may exhibit very poor performance in academics and may be blamed by parents for been a dull child meanwhile it may not be his or her fault. He just can't see and sadly he thinks that's how everyone sees.

Well Since vision entails alot and every year group has their own way of been approached am gonna stop at this point. In my subsequent posts am gonna take some of these conditions that affect the eye and how we could go about things. So if you're not fond of visiting your eye specialist make it a point to visit atleast once a month for a general workup and don't forget to go with you child.

YOU MAY HAVE JUST SAVED YOUR SIGHT