My DD (nearly 4) has been blinking/squinting - where she closes one eye, sometimes the other eye and usually one after the other consistently. She says her eyes hurt in the corners. We thought this might be an eye sight isssue and took her for a sight test. The optician said she has great sight and can see nothing anatomically wrong. She says she has seen other kids with this and it can be just habit.
We have been away to cold environment and she stopped doing it entirely while we were there.
We have been back a few weeks and she has started doig this again. It is not every day but at least for part of the day. Today we have had this pretty much incessantly. It looks very freaky when she does it and her doing this all day at school etc is just not do able and I am being told by nursery that there is an issue with her eyes.
My mother in law said it could be a stress/confidence issue??!My mother thinks it is just habit.
I cannot see anything wrong in the corners. I am happy to take her to GP but I know that when it comes to eyes they really don't do much, they don't refer to specialists and in the past when it came to my eyes they have just told me regarding conjunctivitus that if it didn't clear up with basic antibiotic eye drops to go to Moorfield's eye casualty which I thought was unbelieveable for an eye infection!
Has anyones children had this before or have any suggestion as to what it might be - whether it be a physical thing or a psychological one?
Many thanks