how young for contacts?

Hi my dear, you are not uninformed. I wear spectacles and my son wears it now but the doctor said that eighteen is the minimum age for wearing contact lenses or undergoing lasik surgery.

Maybe you are uninformed, my friends son is also 7 years old and it's her sons choice to used contacts rather eyeglasses. He is very active boy and loves to run and play outside he said to her mom it is not comfortable to him to have eyeglasses while playing. So she tried to teach her son how put and out his contact lenses. I think as long the kid can handle and how to take care it is possible for them use it.

It is too young for one to be wearing contact lenses. Despite what marketers are feeding parents, children aren't growing up at a younger age. Children are still children even if some parents are tarting up their six-year olds with makeup and trampy clothing to look 16--or 26. This may be the start of a new trend. Really, contact lenses cost more than glasses, so it would make sense to start trying to push into a new market--the elementary set.

I don't think that you are uninformed at all because I'm the mother of a nine year old daughter that is supposed to wear glasses (of course it takes an act of God to get her to wear her glasses). But, I couldn't begin to imagine letting Kathryn put contacts in her eyes. First of all, she is still really squeamish of things coming toward her eyes. However, more importantly, I don't think that she has the good hand hygiene that I think that people need to have in order to wear contacts.

Over here you have to be at least 12 years old to get contacts. Also your eyes can get damage of contacts if you wear them 10-15 years (so guess that is also a reason?). But I assume there are many different kind of contacts now, they are not the same anymore as the first ones I had (the soft ones looked at that time like the hard ones and you had them for 5 years). Perhaps this girl has very bad eyes? There is a good medical reason why she has them and perhaps those day and night contacts for a week or so? We had special glasses for physical activities. I think I would not give contacts to my kids at that age. Also don't know if they would choose that if they had the option. I had mine at the age of 15 for medical reasons.

Oh that kid is pretty much young to recommend wearing contacts. There are many things to consider and necessary precautions when using contacts to avoid incident that could damage their eyes. Proper information and care should be a must. I guess their doctor inform the kid and the parents regarding that.

Honestly, I would say no on this because those contacts can be tough to put in and they can get lost so easy especially with children. Thing is though, if a child has a really bad eye condition, then they might just want to consider Lasik surgery. I am wishing that I had done that now, or that my mother had done that for me when I was a child or a teen because my eyes are getting so much worse as I get older. I think that for contacts, 14 and older, so high school would be a good time for a teen/child to get contacts, but no younger than 14.

I had a friend who had such bad vision that she had to have contacts to keep her eyes from getting any worse and that was in elementary school in the sixties. It is not common, and most eye care professionals will tell you that they are more likely to do it for a girl, as girl's can learn to take care of them at a younger age than boys who just do not care. For responsible kids my personal idea would be not younger than ten. My son was about fourteen and his sister was ten or eleven, I think. Neither have continued with them, though. So, this girl may be wearing contacts to try to preserve her vision that may be deteriorating rapidly.

I would guess that the soft contacts of today aren't the same as the hard contacts of our childhood. I suspect that the reason a child wouldn't be put in hard contacts is because of the air permeation, I have a friend who had to stop wearing contacts when her eyes couldn't get enough air and they were afraid they would damage her eyes. The soft, disposable contacts of today are a whole different animal than those of our youth.

I think that would be a hard thing to answer unless you were the doctor, I know they say they can improve eyesight....I have worn glasses since I was in second grade....never even tried contacts....I can't stand having anything in my eye or touching it....contacts would never do for me.

If they can take care of them and wear them properly and responsibily why not? But they do require a lot of attention and caution and care. My son at age 5 had a cataract removed from his eye that took the natural lense out too... he had to wear a contact in his left eye or he would be blind in that eye (20/70) He wore a contact from age 5 -18 and then got an intra-ocular implant (permanent lense) surgery at 18. But it was hard on him cause he couldnt put it in and out on his own, I did it for him and that is hard cause I couldn't feel what he was feeling and hard to know if I was hurting him. He never did catch on to how to put it in himself...at 18 I was still doing it! Some can grasp it, some can't. So a contact lense can be worn that young, but it isn't anything fun and does require attention (even in cleaning them and eye drops) I'd certainly make it a last resort at that age!

Well, I do not know whether or not a right thing to wear contact lenses for a child of only 8 years. Even I, who for 37 years, I prefer to wear glasses. does not attract me at all thought of slipping "something" in the eye! However I imagine that these contact lenses you have been advised by an ophthalmologist, who considered it appropriate that your daughter may bring them with no problem. But as thou hast said, she by chance, she would rather the pleasure of wearing the traditional eyeglasses?

I've heard of very young kids having contacts for certain eye problems. I'm talking about when a toddler is too young to put them in themselves. I think any kid of any age can have contacts. They are really easy to put in now. The soft ones are really easy.

You are just uninformed, and with so many changes to everything, things are so much different now. My daughter is now 15 and has been wearing contacts since she was about that age. It all depends on how the child feels and is able to put them in. My daughter has very bad vision and we really did not want her to play sports wearing her glasses. She has been quite active since she was young and continues to be so. We did have her try to play some sports with her glasses and it impaired her play, and she hated it. Our optometrist ballowed her to test a pair to see if she was comfortable to wear them before we decided to purchase them. It all depends on what the situation is and the child and parents.

I was ten when I started wearing contacts. I hated the gas perms, but years later I got the soft contacts and they were so much better. Now, I wear glasses because I can't afford the contacts.

My sister was in her teens when she got contacts. I think that is probably a good age. Young kids dont clean there hands well and could get germs in their eyes easily and get infections. When that happens the contacts have to be thrown out and they have to wear glasses until the infection goes away. I would just be scared that kids wouldnt be able to remove the contacts very well. I couldnt touch my kids eyes to take them out if they couldnt. I couldnt use contacts myself it creps me out to bad.

Oh wow...i was under the impression that kids can not wear contacts until they are 14 or 15 years old! I was also told that with really bad eye sight contacts often dont help! especially with an astigmatism.

I personally think that is a little young. I guess it depends on how responsible they are though. I got my daughter glasses to start out with and that was when she was 12. I have now got her contacts but I really watched her with them for the first little bit. She got to where she would rather wear her glasses for the most part. She goes through times when she prefers one to another.

My grand daughter is 12 now, she had vision problem 2 years ago, she was given glasses, was not comfortable with it in school, now she is using contact lenses, is happy, because none can know she is using it.. HAPPY SUNDAY Prof.Dr. Bhuwan Saraf. PhD