Can an accident cause your eye vision to be damaged?!
Question: Can an accident cause your eye vision to be damaged?
When school started, she started complaining about her eye vision. This was never an issue before and she new wears glasses (is near sighted)
Question is: Is there any chance there is a correlation to the accident and her vision. We thought nothing of it until a couple of weeks ago when review this past year. Just wondering if anyone had thoughts on that.
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it's highly unlikely that such an accident would cause nearsightedness, because it is related to the length of the eyeball. Usually eye strain typical of near work (reading, studying and so on) is the factor that triggers nearsightedness in children and teen agers. It's important that your daughter remove the glasses when she doesn't need them, especially when reading books, writing, drawing, playing with toys and in general when distance is short, otherwise her eyesight will get worse much more quickly.
Yes, under some circumstances the eye can be damaged due to auto injury.
When my youngest brother was only four years old, he ran into the street and was hit by a passing motorist, and the result was his inner lenses were knocked loose, and had to be removed by surgery.
His glasses being necessary after the surgery, kind of looked like the bottom of milk bottles, that thick and heavy.
That was in 1938, and implants were not yet invented, and in later years they would not have worked because of the eye condition.
usually optical issues (near sighted, far sighted, etc.) are caused by the eyeball being too long or too short. some retinal nerve damage may have occurred if she hit particularly hard or hit her head.
Vision problems that were caused by an accident would not be correctable with spectacle lenses.
optometrist