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What Causes Peripheral Vision Loss?

My son advised me that he suddenly noticed that he didn t seem to have any peripheral vision in his right eye. He then tried to read the label on an ibuprofen bottle and couldn t see the first two letters. He had been playing a video game on the computer for a couple of hours, so I m figuring that it s probably just eye strain from looking at a computer screen. For right now, we have put an eye patch over that eye to give it a little rest. Do you think we need to take him to urgent care, or should we wait to see if the patch (and some rest) will help?
Wed, 5 Apr 2017
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fundus examination is tobe done exclude glaucoma. field tracing is to be done. inform if any other related problem is known what is your sons age. central venous occlusion is to be excluded.peripheralretinalproblem like holetearand detachment observed. refraction can bedoneeye patch will work if your age is less then 9 years itisorthoptic treatment it is force ful expo user of bad eye may stimulate improvement amblyopia and squintistobeexcluded.noneed totaketourgentcare get him checked by eye doctor forcompetecheckupofeye.
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What Causes Peripheral Vision Loss?

fundus examination is tobe done exclude glaucoma. field tracing is to be done. inform if any other related problem is known what is your sons age. central venous occlusion is to be excluded.peripheralretinalproblem like holetearand detachment observed. refraction can bedoneeye patch will work if your age is less then 9 years itisorthoptic treatment it is force ful expo user of bad eye may stimulate improvement amblyopia and squintistobeexcluded.noneed totaketourgentcare get him checked by eye doctor forcompetecheckupofeye.