I'm Dr Chan Li Yen
I look after children's eyes for a living: squints, lazy eyes, short-sightedness, glasses, the surprises that turn up in a flash photo. This journal exists because of a sentence I hear almost every week: "I wish someone had told me sooner."
The grown-ups who bring them in are welcome too: I see parents and grandparents for squint, cataract and everyday eye problems, so one family can keep one eye doctor.
Why I started writing
The pattern I meet most often in clinic is a quiet one: a drifting eye first noticed a year or two ago, watched at home on well-meant reassurance, and brought in later than it needed to be. Treatment still works, and we start it that day. But the younger the child, the easier and shorter that treatment tends to be, and nobody had ever told those parents the one thing that mattered: a slightly drifting eye is a clock, not a quirk.
That's the gap this journal tries to close. Not scary lists of conditions, because most of what parents notice turns out to be nothing at all, but plain, honest answers to the questions people actually type at midnight. What's normal. What can wait. What genuinely shouldn't.
So it all gets written down here. Every article starts as an Instagram carousel, the short, illustrated version, and then becomes the long one here, with the detail that doesn't fit on a square.
Training & credentials
Two decades of eye care in Malaysian public hospitals, including Hospital Kuala Lumpur, with a fellowship year in paediatric ophthalmology at Queensland Children's Hospital in Brisbane.
Eagle Eye Centre
Kuala Lumpur
I see children, and their parents and grandparents too, at Eagle Eye Centre Kuala Lumpur, in Petaling Jaya.
Clinic hours: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5.30pm. Saturday, 8.30am to 1.30pm.
Level 2 & 2M, PinnacleLorong Utara C, Pjs 52
46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Appointments: 03-7611 8000 Directions and opening hours on Google Maps (opens in a new tab)
Wondering about something?
And if something worries you today, skip the reading and book a check. I would rather see you for nothing than miss something.
What happens at a first visit?
A child does not need to read, speak or sit still for the examination, and how we test a child's eyes before they can read walks through it step by step. Dilating drops are often part of it, and about those eye drops at the clinic explains what they do and how long the blur lasts. If your child is given drops to use at home, getting eye drops into a small human has a practical method. If you are still deciding where to go, see finding a children's eye specialist in KL and Selangor.