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blurry eyes, everything going red, 11 year old girl.

My 11 year old grand-daughter has been complaining of blurry eyes for a while.  I had her eyes tested by an optician who said her eyes were fine and even suggested that she was lying to get glasses.  I was shocked as my grand-daughter is not devious. Recently she came into the living room to get her tea and said that when she got off her bed to come in everything went red for a few seconds.
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Children are extremely hard to evaluate and many children can use visual symptoms for secondary gains such as attention.  In many people vision can change momentarily on changing positions. Since it lasted only seconds that usually is not serious and can be "orthostatic hypotension" (if you can to read about it). If complaints continue you can take her to Eye MD ophthalmologist who specializes in pediatrics. The eye MD has more training, skill, experience than optometrist.
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