One eye getting smaller and out of shape compared to other??

[jaabaar]

Hi,

I have a 14 month old DD. When she was about 3 weeks old I noticed that one eye was smaller then the other. Nobody else notice and everybody was insiting it was just my idea.
However now that she is 14 months old it suddenly and rapidly becomes very obvious! One eye looks smaller and like it belongs to a different "person". Same feeling you get when you look at someone with a blue and a brown eye.

It has become this obvious (other people notice it too) in last few weeks.

Is it something I should worry about??

dont like to run to GP for all little things, although I worry.....

thanks...

jaabaar, do her pupils look the same size or is one bigger than the other?
Tbh, I am an optometrist and I would feel that this should be checked out. It may be nothing at all but best to err on the side of caution.

I'd get your DD checked out if the difference seems to be increasing, just to reassure yourself.
BTW, does she have plagiocephaly (a flattened area on the head)? That can sometimes make a baby's face look a bit unsymmetrical.

What piprabbit said. I noticed this with DS when he was tiny (about 6 weeks old I think), one of his eyes started looking much smaller and his forehead protruded on one side. He had fairly severe plagio.

Look at her head from the top, look at the shape of the forehead, position of the ears, and for any flat areas at the back of the head.

Not saying it IS this, not at all, just relaying my own experience.

my son recently diagniosed with an eye disease and his pupil is a square shape, you shoukd get this checked out

I would get it checked out BUT once you've noticed that sort of thing it becomes really obvious, so it may not be getting worse.
Dd2's left is smaller, varying from the obvious to the only notice if you're looking.
At one stage her left ear was nearly 1cm shorter than her right. But it grew and, although there's a slight difference now, it's not noticable. Her left foot is about 1/2 size smaller most of the time, and her left arm didn't grow properly. If you look carefully her left eye is slightly smaller. I wouldn't have noticed if it wasn't for the other stuff though. The specialist says that most people aren't symmetric and often one of everything is smaller, but generally not enough to be noticable. As far as they know it's just a fluke that for dd2 it's all on her left side.

Yes needs to be seen by an opthalmologist to rule out any pathology. Could it be that one eye is getting bigger, making the other eye look smaller?