OT: Photograph detects eye cancer in infants | Arthritis Information

 

Don't know if true but for those with young ones might be  worth having a look at.

http://www.fotosource.com/downloads/flyer/eye_cancer_en_CA.pdf
This is the closest to verifying that story as I could get:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324367,00.html
That is scary. Good thing the parents saw that! Geesh!Also this :

"Pediatricians can screen for vision and/or life threatening eye diseases. The minimal "well baby" screening for newborns is done during the first three months of life should include the following exams:

The Red Reflex: checks for a normal red reflection in the eye that occurs when light travels inside the eye, hits the retina and the blood tissue, and is reflected back"

From: http://www.eyecancermd.org/retinoblastoma/diagnosis.html

So actually, the red-eye thing on a camera would make sense
My sil worked so her sister was babysitting my nephew and her son had an eye appiontment. So the the doc took one look at the baby and said have his parents call me and make an appiontment asap. He had a very bad stigmatism and was young enough to have it corrected. He would have been legally blind without the surgery before the age of two if i remember correctly. The peds totally missed it. So i would advise all parents to have there child seen once by an eye doc at least once. And parents they just see there babies as perfect. I remember he would sit under the tv with his feet proped up on the screen. My daughter, who is now 15, was diagnosed with retinoblastoma eye cancer at the age of 2 and 1/2. My husband and I had never heard of it before. Her symptoms were a headache and vomiting. After diagnosis and her left eye was removed, we looked back at her baby pictures and saw the flash. I wish doctors were more open to well baby eye exams at birth, or I should say insurance companies.This is so shocking! I posted this on my myspace because I have lots of friends with young kiddos. Thanks for sharing!! [QUOTE=MrsA]This is so shocking! I posted this on my myspace because I have lots of friends with young kiddos. Thanks for sharing!![/QUOTE]No probs Mrs A, I thought it better to mention rather than not.

PS; I mentioned this on a photographic forum I frequent and not even a blip on the radar screen..
The board is mainly full of blokes.
A little message in that I think.
Bodak2008-03-18 16:36:58Ninilchicken - did you read the story in the Homer papers about 10 years ago - the mom noticed in one picture of her baby that she had that "red eye" you see in some photos, but it was only in one eye.  Took the baby to the doctor and she had the start of a condition that ends up in eye cancer and loss of the eye, but they never catch it in time as its not noticed because the child is too young and it isn't detectable in regular exams.  One smart Mom. 
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