Blurred Eye Glass Lenses Instead of Eye Patch.....

We had this with my daughter at the same age. She was OK with the patches but after a while they were not improving things any more so the eye doctor gave us the drops to use instead.
She hated having them put in as she said they were stinging, so we actually put them in at night while she was asleep - as I recall they just had to be put in once every 24 hrs so we went in after she was asleep, pulled up her eyelid and inserted the drops and she never woke up.
She has no bad reaction to them and was able to carry on her life and play as normal.
The down side is that she had poor vision all the time and did complain she couldn't see pictures etc in books. She had very good vision in her good eye and poor sight in the bad eye so when she has both eyes she can see very well but as soon as the good one is blurred her overall vision in bad. The eye patch of course did the same thing but she was only wearing that a couple of hours a day whereas with the drops it is all the time.
In the end there was no further improvement with the drops so we stopped using them.
Now she is 8 and although the vision in the poorer eye is still not great she is not in the least held back by it, so I am just trying not to worry too much!

When I was a little girl, I also wore first a patch and then had the lens blurred on my glasses with clear contact because the patch was uncomfortable and the muscle problems in my eyes were corrected that way. Good luck!

Both of my four year old twins wear glasses --just this week at our regular visit to the opthomologist -she said she wants us to patch them for an hour a day -both of their right eyes --both of my kids have poorer vision in their left eyes. I thought the patch would be an impossible task --but, they are fine (so far) with wearing it --it's only been three days so far. She gave me posters for the kids -- a snake for my son and a princess for my daughter --each day they take off their patch and stick it on the poster which after 50 days will complet the picture so they are very excited about getting further along the posters. Could you try one of thes posters? Also, I know they sell a patch that slides on over the lens of the glasses -that's another idea -I haven't heard about the blurring of the lens.
good luck!
M.

I have four children and two of them have had to wear the patch to strengthen their weak eye due to amblyopia or "lazy eye". My nine year old doesn't wear one anymore but my four year old currently does for several hours a day. Both of them HATED the patches that stick to your face. We tried a pirate patch under the glasses for my son. That seemed to work but then what our pediatric optamologist gave us were these cloth patches that slip over the glasses and block out the eye. I wish I still had the package with the name of them on them but maybe you could search the internet. They are much better since they don't stick to the skin and they have little pictures on them for girls or boys. My daughter has several so one day she will wear the one with the heart, another the unicorn, etc. Anything to make it fun!! If you are crafty or can sew maybe you could even make them. I am not that type! If you are really interested, I could even take a picture of one and email it to you. Anyway, I don't have any experience with blurring the lense but maybe these patches will work for you. I've been there with the struggle to get your child to cooperate, hang in there! I have to admit, I've resorted to bribery too! My daughter gets one hersheys kiss when she's done wearing the patch for the day. I'm not sure how long your child has to wear his patch each day but maybe you could come up with some sort of incentive for him, if you haven't already thought of this! I wish you the best.

HI,
My son has been wearing glasses since he was 2. He also needed to patch an eye and refused (I didn't blame him!) to wear the patch that sticks to your face. Our dr. gave us a cloth patch that goes over the lens of the glasses. He has been wearing it for a few hours a day for over 2 years now and most of the time he does not even notice it and forgets he has it on. I highly recommend using that type of patch. I don't know the brand we use, but there is one called Patch Pals that I saw on the internet for $10.