Home vision tests

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Visual acuity test

Overview

Risks

Results

Home vision tests

Alternative Names:

Visual acuity test - home; Amsler grid test

What the risks are:

The tests have no risks.

Special considerations:

If there are any of the following symptoms, have a professional eye examination:

Difficulty focusing on near objects
Objects or faces looking blurred or foggy
Double vision
Impression of "skin" or "film" over the eye
Frequent changing of glasses
Trouble seeing at night, trouble adjusting to darkened rooms
Light flashes, dark spots, or ghostlike images
Rainbow-colored rings around lights
Straight lines look wavy
Eye pain
A curtain-like blotting-out of vision

If children have any of the following symptoms, they should also have a professional eye examination.

Getting very close to an object (for example, television) in order to see it
Watering eyes
Crossed eyes
Head-tilting
Excessive blinking
Squinting
Difficulty in school

Review Date: 8/11/2005
Reviewed By: Edward B. Feinberg, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.

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