As mid-Missouri’s only pediatric eye care clinic, we specialize in providing expert vision care for kids. From managing issues like lazy eye to complex genetic eye conditions, we can help enhance and preserve your child’s eyesight.
When you choose MU Health Care, you’ll find expertise and services you can only find at an academic health system. We provide everything from routine eye exams and eyeglasses to surgery for all types of eye diseases. Whatever eye care needs your child has, you’ll find the area’s leading specialists right here.
When you choose MU Health Care, you receive a level of care and range of services you can only find at an academic health center. We provide everything from routine eye exams and eyeglass prescriptions to surgical management and expert care for complex eye diseases. It’s comforting to know that whatever health care needs your child has, you’ll find the area’s leading care right here.
Our Approach to Pediatric Eye Care
Our pediatric eye care team works with kids only, so they know how to put your child at ease. Inside our welcoming, kid-friendly clinic, you’ll find:
- Pediatric ophthalmologists: Specialize in performing eye surgery and treating different eye diseases like retinopathy and glaucoma.
- Pediatric optometrists: Conduct eye exams and manage many common eye problems.
- Resident physicians and nurses: Support your child’s care team.
- Specialized ophthalmic technicians: Assist with tests and eye exams to diagnose and treat vision issues.
- Opticians: Fit glasses and contacts for young people.
- Orthoptists: Specialize in eye alignment measurements and examining eye movement disorders.
Because we’re part of an academic health system, we also work with other pediatric specialists when needed, including:
Getting Eye Care for Your Child
Your child should be screened for eye conditions from the time they are infants through their school years. Infants and toddlers can’t tell you when they’re having vision issues, so it’s important to see a specialist. Signs your child may need an eye exam include:
- Crossed or drifting eyes
- Sitting close to screens
- Holding objects close to their face
- Not reacting to things in their environment
- Running into things
To meet with our team, you can get a referral from your pediatrician or local eye doctor. Or you can contact our team directly. We also provide second opinions if you’re considering eye surgery or another treatment for your child.
Conditions We Treat
- Astigmatism (uneven lens in the eye)
- Blocked tear ducts
- Cataract (cloudy lens)
- Corneal abrasion
- Corneal keratoconus
- Convergence insufficiency
- Craniosynostosis
- Crossed eyes (strabismus)
- Double vision
- Eye movement disorders
- Farsightedness (hyperopia)
- Foreign body in the eye
- Genetic eye diseases
- Glaucoma
- Hemifacial microsomia
- Lazy eye (amblyopia)
- Low vision
- Nearsightedness (myopia)
- Orbital disease
- Pink eye (conjunctivitis)
- Retinopathy of prematurity (blood vessels in retina)
- Styes
- Watery eyes
