lazy eye in 17mo.

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I brought my DD into nursery today and was asked to stay for a "chat". DD has always had a turned in eye and in the past while has also developed a squint. the girls in the nursery wanted to speak to me about it as they are very concerned with how bad it is. I phoned my optician but they said to call hv. I phoned hv and she has referred her to ophthalmologist. I'm quite concerned about it as she seems very young. Her uncle (aged 8) has been blind as a bat since he was no age and also had a very lazy eye and it waiting for surgery. She is my first so I don't know if she is having vision problems or just being a normal toddler, she is always falling over and tripping up on things.

Has anyone else had a similar problem with one around her age? what was the treatment? I have been googleing (never good) and it seems like normal treatment is glasses and or eye patch.

dd had a squint at about 18 months and the hv referred us to the orthoptist at the hospital. She turned out to be long sighted in both eyes and the left eye had poorer eyesight (lazy eye). She got glasses and we had to patch her good eye for 2 hours per day for quite a few months to make the other eye work properly. She also had an eye op at the age of 4 as her squint was still noticeable even with her glasses on. She is now 7 and still has glasses and her sight is now pretty much equal in both eyes.