To ask, why is my DD squinting ??

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My DD is 2 and 4 months, over the last week she has started 'squinting' / blinking, I thought it was to much time on the iPad so iv taken it away its been 2 days of no iPad and very minimal TV and she is still doing it... anybody have a child that did the same & what was the reason why....

Take her to the opticians, she may need glasses

Lazy eye for my dd. She had to wear glasses and a patch for a while. She is fine now but it was very noticeable when it first happened.

What Lwmommy said. The sooner you go, the better.

Squinting as in crossing eyes, or screwing them up?

If it's cross eyes, then it's GP in the first instance. Then it's a referral to hospital eye clinic. DS has just been diagnosed with very bad mismatched prescriptions causing a squint, at just gone 2.

Book an opticians appointment. My daughter did this at the same age. We found out at 3 she had cataracts

It needs checking out, but my DS had this exactly, blinking and squinting at television. He was referred to the orthoptist, had an eye test and we were told to watch and wait. He grew out of it.

Screwing eyes up type squinting is also a sign of vision problems. Ds is very short sighted and this is always a sign his prescription has changed!

I would call the HV team - high street opticians not set up to see young children ime

Could be nothing so don’t be too alarmed, often children get into little habits of blinking/squinting.
It could mean an issue with her vision or eyes working together though so take her along to your optometrist for an eye exam. If you don’t have an optometrist or aren’t happy with the outcome of the test you can ask for a referral via the GP. Make sure the optometrist you go to is competent testing young children.

Appreciate what other posters have said. However we had seen GP & HV multiple times and after 30 seconds sat in an opticians chair just after her 3rd birthday we had a cataracts diagnosis (not expected) & a hospital referral. I would definitely book an appointment.

If they do need glasses then the only glasses really suitable for that age are a brand called tomato glasses. You may have to take a prescription elsewhere or call a few different opticians to find one that stocks these.

Go to the the GP. They can either refer you for a hospital eye check, which is much more accurate for a young child, or can do further checks to see what might be causing it. My niece went to the optician because she was squinting and was told she had perfect eye sight. They were very worried about what the actual cause was but GP first sent them for a hospital eye test which showed she needed glasses.

Noticed it when DD was a similar age. I rang the HV and she arranged an orthoptist appointment - they are better trained than opticians to deal with that age group. In our case, DD was very long-sighted. She has worn glasses since then and for a couple of years was patched for between 2 & 4 hours each day. We managed to make it when she was at home so she only had her glasses to deal with at nursery/school.

She's now 19 and still wears glasses full time. In fact, her last pair broke when she was at uni - cue an anguished call as she hadn't thought to take a spare/old pair with her and had to sit in lectures in her prescription sunglasses. Everyone thought she had had a heavy night! She now has 2 pairs again...

My son sometimes does this (2 years 3 months) but it doesn’t seem to be related to what he’s looking at, he does it when he’s talking about something and I think it’s just him practising his expressions! Can’t hurt to get it checked though.