Patient experience after 6 Years of Lasik Surgery, ICARE Eye Hospital Noida

Time flies!! I clearly remember the day when I was being examined for my eligibility for a Lasik surgery. I wanted to get rid of my glasses that gave me a clumsy look and handling the contact lenses was combersome. Once a close friend of mine had undergone Lasik. His happiness, looks and attitude altered for the better after the Lasik surgery. The results were informed to me by the consultant at ICARE, I was declared fit to undergo the surgery. On & before the surgery day, I was a bit nervous but this evaporated at the first sight of my Doctor, I knew I was in safe hands.

It is now over six years since I got rid of my glasses; and I have had no problems whatsoever related to my eyes in these six years. I am also convinced, like my Doctor, that I would not have to use glasses again.

This decision has been a life changer. I shifted to Mumbai from Noida for a job, met my soon to be husband there. I took my own time, saying yes and finally marrying him and am now a mother of a 3 year old little girl. He now and again teases me on my ‘with glasses look’ these are photographs of me with my rather trendy specs! How happy I am (as is my husband) of having got rid of the glasses. All the new friends I made in Mumbai as well as my daughter’s classmates mothers who I often met when I left her at nursery school would have thought me to be a bit drab and uniformed if I had not taken this life changing decision of getting Lasik procedure done. I am indebted to Dr. Saurabh Choudhry for explaining the steps of the surgery so patiently and for the marvelous job done. Besides being thankful to my friend Jasmine who advised me to seek this solution to rid myself of the glasses.

In young children, vision problems often go undetected

In the first few months of life, infants can only see clearly objects that are 8 to 10 inches from their faces. It is not until 12 to 16 weeks that their eyesight begins to improve, and they start seeing things more clearly and further away. Over the next year, kids develop depth perception, eye-body coordination, eye-hand coordination, and the ability to judge distances. It's rare for children to have vision problems at this age.

Silent Symptoms: Vision Problems in Children

Vision problems in kids tend to emerge between 1½ - 4 years. The two most common issues are:

1. A crossed or wandering eye, which troubles 3 - 5% of children. Symptoms include an eye that drifts or appears crossed in respect to the other eye, though "it isn't really the eye that's the problem," says Dr. Geeta Srinivasan, M.S., DNB, Paediatric Ophthalmology.

2. Uneven focus, where one eye is more farsighted than the other, affects 2 - 3% of kids. This vision problem is the hardest to detect, because young children don't know that their vision is compromised. "Seeing that way, it's all they've ever known," says Dr. B.S. Goel, MD, Ph D and HoD Pediatric Ophthalmology, ICARE eye Hospital, "so they won't say anything about it.”

Most of the eye problems go unnoticed in children, as they are too young to understand that something is wrong with their vision. It is for the parents to take the child for an eye checkup to a Doctor. ICARE Eye Hospital's Pediatric Ophthalmology Department has special faculty, equipment ambience and sensitization for the children problems.