PEDIATRIC CONTACT LENSES Infants and children with eye conditions that would normally require them to wear bulky eyeglasses with conditions such as high prescriptions; anisometropia (significantly different prescription between the two eyes), aphakia (an eye where the lens has been removed) and other focusing problems need to wear constant visual correction for the visual system to develop normally. When a child needs vision correction but where one is never prescribed or worn, amblyopia, or “lazy eye”, can develop and vision can be reduced permanently. Since eyeglasses are never tolerated well by small children, contact lenses are the preferred method of vision correction for these patients.