Lazy Eye Amblyopia Solution with Keepons Anti-slip Eyeglass Retainers

Jan. 19, 2012 - PRLog -- Each year Amblyopia affects hundreds of thousands of children worldwide. Its technical term is lazy eye, “but it’s not that one of your eyes is lazy,” says Michael Wong, marketing manager for chamightlike.com. “It’s just you have one eye that is really strong and it actually wants to do all the work. Picture a couple, husband and wife, and the wife does all the housework cause she loves it and the husband just sits there watching TV and drink beers. Wait, yeah he’s lazy.”

Amblyopia is a big problem for adults because the quality of their children’s vision is at stake, but children don’t care about tomorrow, next week, next month, especially not their futures because they have no concept of time.

First comes the patch which goes over the strong eye and while at home, your kids might adhere to the patch, but most likely with friends or at school, the patch goes in a pocket. Then it comes to eyeglasses to treat Amblyopia and it doesn’t get any better there.

“Kids take their glasses off every chance they get, because the glasses keep slipping down their noses which as anyone knows is really uncomfortable,” says Wong in between sips of coffee, his eyes focused on a distant horizon as he formulates his words.

“It’s the worse for small kids, 2-3 years of age, and the doctor tells mom that her son or doctor has lazy eye and the child has to wear glasses. But it’s hard to find frames that small, so parents usually opt for something that approximates fitting.”

I was reading a blog post on a blog called littlefoureyes.com, I’ve included the URL,” add Wong, turning his laptop towards me. The URL reads:

http://littlefoureyes.com/2011/11/05/question-and-answer-...

“The frame always slips down the boy’s nose and as a result the intended purpose of the glasses is negated because the child is looking out over the glasses all the time not through them as their supposed to.”

And so it seems eyeglass straps or cords aren’t a solution either because kids hate having that sticky feeling on the back of their necks. And other kids at school always pull of their eyeglass retainer straps, Wong lists off the top of his head as if he’s personally experienced such bullying.

“Heck yes I have. I grew up the only Chinese kid in an all non-Chinese school in Toronto, Canada. Plus I had glasses. My glasses kept falling and my dad made these straps out of shoe lace for me. After the first day I stopped wearing the eyeglass straps because the other kids kept pulling at the shoelace throughout recess and lunch. One would do it and then when I spun around to face him, someone else would pull it. It was a nightmare.”

That’s where Keepons (http://chamightlike.com/collections/keepons) come in. They’re like little rubber hooks which slide onto each of the eyeglass frame temples and they stop glasses from slipping in two ways. They give traction to the glasses against your ears so they won’t slip. Second, they provide some counter-weight to one’s front heavy glasses.

Best thing about Keepons is that their designed from transparent engineered rubber for maximum discreteness. No one will know your kids are wearing them so no teasing.

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Curating cool one product at a time. Chamightlike.com is brought to you by mom and son team of MIchael and Julia Wong. Their first offering: bringing the world Keepons brand of eyeglass retainers to prevent your glasses from slipping.