hi ladies!!
I brought my son for the eye screening 3 wks ago. He is ok until the eye drop part. 5 sets of eye drops in total.
After the 1st drop he cries and shut his eyes tight everytime the doc trys to put in the eye drop. No choice lor, got to force open the eyes but she is gentle la.
They will put 3 sets of eye drop first, 5mins later another set, then another 5 mins later put another set.
My gal(4yo) went last sat so before that I already prep her about the eye drops and encourage her to be 'brave' and tell her it's not painful etc etc. So she is ok with the eye drops. But I heard other children cries like tearing the whole place down. It's not painful la but jus a little scary to the kids 'cos it feels like ppl gonna poke their eyes lor.
They also tested whether she can see 3D diagrams and tested on color blindness.
After the tests she has blur vision and finds the sun too bright for the rest of the day(it's normal as the doc told us to keep her indoors too).This is due to the eye drops.
I forgot to bring her sun glasses so I asked her to close her eyes and rest on the way back. Blur vision continues till end of the day and is OK on Sun.
For my son, his vision is ok. Both sides are equal, ie equally blur or equally sharp 'cos but still too young to tell. Aat least equal means no lazy eyes la.
For my gal, she is a little long sighted but is good for kids 'cos as they grow up their eye ball length will change and will correct the long-sighted to normal sight.
After that, they will give u a little stationary gift, a small packet of milo(my gal so look forward to that) and $10 for your trouble and transportation.