Your Child’s Eye Health – Follow our top tips for keeping your eyes and vision healthy
Your child’s sight is precious. Good vision helps them learn, play and communicate 
with the world around them. Yet, there are more than a million children in the UK with undetected vision problems.
Children’s eyes continue to develop until they reach the age of eight, so caring for a child’s eyes in the early can help lay the foundations for good vision that lasts a lifetime.
There are 3of simple things that you can do to help keep kids’ eyes healthy:
- Essential eye checks – every 2 years, unless otherwise advised by your opticians.
- eye checks will help identify childhood conditions such as a squint, amblyopia (lazy eye) or myopia (shortsightedness) are picked up early
- Eat a rainbow
- eat a rainbow of colourful fruit and vegetables help ensure young eyes get the nutrients they need to grow healthy. Foods like tomatoes, melon, grapes and blueberries as well as fish, eggs and whole grains.
- Be safe in the sun
- when you’re young the lens at the front of the eye is really clear lets more of the damaging sunlight inside. You’ll find 10 ways to help keep kids’ eyes protected from the sun.
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