Adhesive Eye Patches for Kids 60PCs/3Boxes Colorful Breathable Lazy Eye Patch Eye Pad for Adults Children

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During your night time or bedtime routine – when you are having a bath, reading a story and having snuggles before bed. If you wear a patch full-time to cover a damaged or deformed eye, you will probably want to go with a cloth or leather patch that is a style that you like. There are some really cool (and expensive) patches out there for these situations. The only trouble is that those pesky straps will mess up your hair. In August of 2018, I started patching my strong eye to help strengthen my eye that was weakened because of my amblyopic strabismus. After six months of using different patches 2-4 hours each day, I have zeroed in on the best ones out there. There are so many different options for adhesive patches. Some boast soft fabric and breathability, others have a variety of designs or special sensitive skin friendly material. Blue (Krafty Patch) Ballet Slippers (MYI Patch) Everything Else (Ortopad)

Eye shield and pad. These types of eye patches are the disposable gauze pads and bandages you use after eye surgery. You’ll need to use these until your eye heals up or until your doctor tells you to stop bandaging your eye. Benefits of Eye Patches Eye patches can help treat some types of vision problems, especially in the case of children. Depending on the problem, you might need to wear it for several hours a day. What Is an Eye Patch? Amblyopia can be caused by uncorrected refractive error, eye misalignment ( strabismus) or if vision is obscured in childhood by cataracts or another condition. Once the underlying condition is treated through eyeglasses or surgery, occlusion therapy may be considered. Here are some pros and cons, where to find my favorite patches, and which patches to avoid. Adhesive PatchWear the patch for as long as your doctor says. Use distractions to help a child manage the adjustment. Tried, proven and trusted through years of use by orthoptists across Europe, Opticlude eye patches provide a comfortable solution to a sensitive problem.

If you are wondering if patching could help strengthen your eyes or help fix your lazy eye, schedule a consult with me and I can help you figure that out! Each of these varieties has its pluses and minuses. Children are apt to enjoy the more playful variations of eye patches, but the final decision should come down to a doctor’s recommendations. What are the medical reasons for wearing an eye patch? Determine which eye the patch goes on. If you’re treating strabismus or lazy eye, you’ll want to place the patch on the stronger eye. Following a surgery, you’ll want to put it over the eye your doctor worked on. Squint. Sometimes, doctors recommend an eye patch for strabismus. Also called squint, strabismus occurs your eyes are misaligned. One eye drifts in, out, or up while the other looks straight ahead, which can cause vision problems. Without treatment, you might develop a squint, which is where the name of this condition comes from. But it may do even more good to read books or get into arts-and-crafts projects because it encourages hand-eye coordination, according to Prevent Blindness.

I patch my dominant eye between one and two hours every morning and then alternate patching each eye for about 30 minutes at another point in the day to do my eye exercises like the ones in this article. In the morning I definitely use an adhesive patch, otherwise, I just subconsciously take it off when I am faced with a difficult task like reading or fixing my daughters’ hair. (Update 2023: I no longer patch in the mornings, only during therapy activities). Reducing skin irritation – Hypoallergenic patches may cause less irritation. Ask your doctor about the best adhesives for a child’s skin. There are a few types of eye patches. You can buy most over the counter at the pharmacy or from your eye doctor. If the patch is a treatment to correct poor vision, make sure it’s snug around the eye. That way, you or your child can’t peek around it and lose the benefits. Historically, people wore an eye patch to hide the evidence of an eye lost to injury or disease (a challenge that drove the development of artificial eyes). I love to have a few cute go-to cloth patches for those times when I’ve already gotten ready and I don’t want my patch to smash my eyelashes. I’m really not horribly vain, but nobody wants smashed eyelashes.