When can my 10 year old daughter get contacts for her eyes? Is she too young now?
Would this be for vision, or for eye color?
If vision, her eye doctor would be able to tell you. I got contacts when I was 12 for the purpose of slowing down my myopia–it worked. Didn’t have to change my prescription for 30 years. (Although I lost many pairs, being irresponsible.)
For vision correction? Why not? I got them around that age. My mother was very careful to make sure I cared for them properly…this was before the age of 2 week contacts. I had the same pair for a YEAR.
Probably cheaper than eyeglasses in the end as well.
Sorry to say, but even still glasses are just not COOL. 
And if the tyke is into sports, this makes a lot of sense.
I had contacts when I was ten. It can be frusterating to care for them so much at first, but after a year or so she’ll get used to it.
My two year old has been wearing a [sic] contact lens since she was 7 weeks old. It is certainly possible for children to wear contact lenses.
I think the big concern is, will the child be responsible with them, avoid getting dust/schmutz in his eyes, take them out when he should, etc.
In my daughter’s case, there is no choice - she either wears the lens or she goes blind in that eye. At $150/pop, it’s frustrating when she loses one in the sandbox or at the park.
Just another “me too” post. Our daughter has been wearing them since she was about the same age. As long as she’s responsible enough to handle them properly, and you can absorb the costs, no worries.
I got contacts for vision correction/myopia slowdown when I was 9 years old. I lost a few, but I was overall pretty responsible about it. I’d say it depends on the reason, and the kid. Ask your eye doctor for an opinion, and then make a decision. You know your kid better than anybody else, and you really think she’s ready, she’ll probably do alright.
I was wearing contacts at a young age, as well…unless I left them somewhere(like a friend’s house at a sleepover) or didn’t take care of them. Then I had to wear glasses until I could show I was responsible enough to keep up with the contacts. I didn’t lose many pairs, that’s for sure.
Contacts to slow down myopia? I guess they hadn’t heard of that back in 1972, and I guess since I got contacts at age 14 and/or had already had myopia for 5 years by then, that’s why I’ve had to get a new prescription every year or two for the last 38 years. Or maybe it just doesn’t work for everyone.
Gee, why does the good stuff always happen to other people? 
My niece got her contacts at 9; her mother sees that she takes care of them properly, but she is a very careful and responsible little girl. She’s had them two years now and, as far as I know, has not had any trouble with them.
After years of demanding/begging for contacts from parents (I couldn’t stand glasses due to the headaches they did and still do give me, as well as the lack of peripheral vision) I got my own at the age of 16. Since then, my myopia has regressed by over a point and a half and stabilized years ago at significantly less than my worst prescription. (The astigmatism, however, continues to get slightly but progressively worse.) If I’d been allowed contacts back then, I wonder how much it would have prevented or permenantly corrected my current condition. (The orthodontic retainer that I was forced to wear for four years, however, accompished nothing at all and was the subject of many subsequent bitter accuasations that I wasn’t wearing it properly or continuously despite my nearly religious adherence to the damned appliance. Ain’t parents great?"
That said, installing and wearing them requires a certain discipline in both hygiene and regular maintainence. On the other hand, if your kid is a sporter or outdoorsman(woman) contacts are both a tremendous convenience and a potential safety; I knew one kid who lost most of the vision in his eye as the result of an altercation on the basketball court, and until I had contacts diving and watersports were always exercises in coping with the fog of the uncorrected world.
My advice is to talk to an ophthalmologist who is knowledgeable about the effects of eye development rather than just an optomotrist.
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