Lazy eye, squints, glasses etc.....

[cheekyginger]

Im an orthoptist (binocular vision specialist) and a mummy.

I thought i would start this thread in case anyone was wanting any advice, re-assurance, opinions about any eye problems that you wee ones are having.

Hi, this is a brilliant thread! I have never had glasses or anyone in my family so this is all new to me but very helpful!.
My LO has a turn we noticed it about 1 year she is now 16 months and we have been given a prescription for glasses she is long sighted, right eye is +6.00 and the left is +7.50. They said they will monitor the turn for now and all i need to do is find a good opticians. My query is will her vision ever improve?
Also is better to go with an independent optician or a big chain like Specsavers?
Would it be worth me getting a second opinion. We were referred from our midwife to an ophthalmologist that comes out to our local community so she is from the eye hospital it just she works in the community also. It such a shock as my LO is so happy and has no signs of distress or anything like that although i know she hasn't known anything else.
Any help gratefully is gratefully received! ;-)

My 6 year old daughter has been diagnosed with a lazy eye (Hyperoplia with slight Amblyopia). Her prescription is +0.25 in the left eye and +2.50 in the Right eye. She does great with just the patch on the good eye, but we just got her glasses and she loves wearing them, but without the patch. She says the patch makes it uncomfortable to see. We did a at home eye test and she failed it miserably with the glasses on. It seemed to be blurry when we covered the good eye. My question is, is this normal for the glasses to make the lazy eye blurry or should see be seeing 20/30? Second, is it better to have her wear glasses with the patch or is it better to just wear the patch? She seems fine with the patch on. Third, how many hours do you recommend her wearing the patch? Finally, does she need to wear the patch for consecutive hours of time or can it be broken up throughout the day?

So glad I have found this thread! Thank you :)

We found out in August that my daughter whom is 4 needs glasses for a squint, her right eye would turn in and this happened so quickly from her being fine! Her prescription was +3 in both eyes so as I understand moderate l- when I first took her back they told me that her eye sight had made a big difference from wearing the glasses so I was stupidly happy - I have recently taken her back again for another check up and been told that her right eye still turns in when she is looking closely to something in turn upping her prescription to a plus +4. Do you think she will always have to wear glasses? They have said that she 'may' come out of them when she is 7 as her eye sight will have fully developed by then? I don't understand why her prescription has been put up if her eye sight has made progress? Is a jump from a +3 to a +4 a big jump?

I've been struggling to find glasses that my son, who is 6 can wear that he can't look over the top of. All the boy ones in the opticians are rectangular frames and he can look over these. The girl ones are perfect frames as they are round, but they are pink. Anyone else had this problem?

I found a great site Children's Glasses, Kids Sunglasses - Zoobug that I can buy the frames online which fit perfectly as I can order 3 and send the ones I don't want back free of charge. Then I take them to the opticians and use my NHS voucher to get the lenses fitted. They are excellent.

I'm interested to find out where you buy your glasses for your kids?

It looks like my baby girl may need them too.

Thanks
Susan x

Hello, I'm new here!

Okay...so I have a 4 1\2 month old with an appointment with the opthomologist on the 19th because his eyes were 'tracking' constantly and he still doesn't look at anyone. In the past month he has started to grab toys and chew on them (and is cutting his first tooth!) - and he squeals with pleasure when we kiss his belly all over. He seems aware that we're there but he's only glanced directly into my eyes once. It's a little sad since we had nothing unusual about our first son's vision. He seems sensitive to light, dislikes loud/sudden sounds and although he's still too young to sit up unaided, he tends to hold his gaze downwards or straight up and craning his neck to see what's happening behind whoever's holding him. He lovesreflective surfaces such as our big blue wall, the fridge and the edge of our mirror (currently the part that he festive snow spray on it).
He tries to focus n toys and does seem to be able to see objects up really close but he won't follow anything. He cries and moans all day, we think, because he is frustrated and hired because he can't see anything other than light - but he doesn't care much for any toys that may have lights on. He seems irritated by eeverything.
Any advice...at all?

X Enorbeaupott x

Sorry that was a bit rushed as baby was fussing in his cot and I was worried the page was going to time-out.
Forgot to add that his eyes don't track as much anymore, hardly at all now only when he's lying down and just looking at the ceiling or when he's trying to focus.
Also, although I've never had visual problems, my brother has bad eyesight and has always needed glasses and my dad has terrible eyesight - he went to a school for the blind back in the 60's and at his o!d age now has a registered blind card (but that's age more than anything I think affecting his eyesight worse now). My dad told me recently that he has always had congenital nystagmus and his head sort of vibrates when he focuses - a coping method developed in childhood because he eyes were tracking.
Also, my partner was born with poor eyesight as well. He says he was told his 'cones didn't develop properly'. He is fine with glasses on.

So our poor boy has a lot against him it seems.
~enor

My daughter is 2.5 and has a lazy eye that turns in I noticed it when she was very small and we have had three appointments at the hospital. The last visit my husband went to and they kept him waiting a long time past my Childs bedtime and this is when the lazy eye is worst and they prescribed glasses for her. Every one but every one I know glass wears and non think this is madness and that now can glass help her at such a young age, in my experience you get glasses and they just keep getting stronger and stronger lenses so what is the point? surely it is better to have none and then they will not need stronger lenses.?? So we go down to get the 2 free glasses and all the opticians was interested in was selling ohh you can have this frame only cost £5 more or this £10 oh and if you want the glass filed down which you will need as they are so thick it is £10 each glass... is it me or is all this pointless.... I really am not comfortable with any of this when my daughter picks glitter off the floor or glitter off your hand close up I just don't know what to do now?? How do I get a private second opinion? What do you think?

Sorry also how on earth am I going to actually going to get her to wear them too??

Hi all,

Great thread.

Our daughter was diagnosed as being very long sighted (+4 and +5) at 7 months (she was 2 premature and we went to the eye hospital as she had a noticeable squint).

With glasses, her vision is noticeably better - she obviously sees more and interacts with us when close up.

Her squint is better (she has been wearing the glasses for about 6 weeks) in that whatever eye is turning in turns in less). However, it is still noticeable.

Is it to soon to know whether glasses will fully correct the squint?

Hello cheekyginger,

Thank you for setting up this thread, it's really useful.

My son is 21 months old and very suddenly we started noticing a lazy eye in his right eye. Went from nothing to very noticeable in no time at all. Is this normal? I'd have thought would be more gradual and was concerned this could be a sign of something more serious?

I went to the ops last week and she said he is longsighted, +5 in each eye....if it is the same in each eye why has 1 gone lazy? No idea how bad this is either as neither my husband or I have ever had to wear glasses.

She has ordered glasses for him but not suggested a patch, although I am waiting on a referral from the hospital for further tests. She said he'd need them till 7 as between 3-7 children's eyes change so much. What will happen after 7?

I'm also having sleepless night on how I'm going to get him to keep them on when they arrive! Ops were good at test but not so good on advise about what glasses to actually buy so no idea what I should be looking out for.

Any advise is much appreciated.

Thank you!

I just had the same thing, my son is 5.5. He has reduced vision in one eye, and a mild squint. The optician would not give us glasses and said it was best to go to hospital. As my son is older, I am worried about correcting in time.

After 7 or 8 the vision is set.

Hi,
My DD just turned 7 and we found she is nearsighted for one eye only. Doc prescribed glasses for her with 1.25 for one eye and the other for 0.25. She is able to read the snellen chart lines 20/10 or 20/20 with both eyes. We saw the difference in her reading when she read the chart when one eye is covered. Can someone help me understand if this is myopia or lazy eye. Do I need to see another doc for a second opinion. Please advice.

Hi ginger
We have been told that my 6yr dd has eyesight of -7 in the left eye & -1.75 in the right...I've been worried to sick ever since,is there anything that can be done...
Thanks

Hi
My ds (4) had his eye test at school yesterday and came out with a letter saying:

There is reduced vision in both eyes
The eyes sometimes turn in (have never noticed this so feel bad!)
There is a very slight weakness when using both eyes together

No one in the family wears glasses - parents, cousins, grandparents are all glasses free so to speak to we were quite shocked and now I'm worrying that it's done sort of terrible eye disorded that will cause him to go blind!

He's been referred to the eye hospital. The problem seems to be distance I think, reading etc seems to be ok. I did a very crude eye test where I wrote some small letters on some paper and he sat several metres away. He couldn't read all the letters with one eye covered. The right eye was weaker than the left.

What will happen? Will he have to wear glasses all the time and forever?

Hi enorbert hope you got some answers from hospital just seen this and thought congenital cataracts .. Our ds exact same now 7 has had ops for cataracts and doing Okish

Hi, thank you for helping us all! My little girl is 18 months all and from birth, one of her eyes appears bigger than the other. The top lid in her "smaller" eye does not seem to open up her eye as much as the other. This is sometimes very noticeable and others not so much.

I have mentioned it it two separate GPs and they think she is just asymmetric in that respect. But after reading about this issue, I get the impression it could be ptosis. If so, is there anything we can do about it, can it be corrected in any way? If not, would surgery be an option in later life, perhaps?

DS has just been prescribed glasses -0.75 in both eyes following numerous tests at the opticians. The optician went back and forth about whether to give him glasses or not (his concentration isn't the best and got bored easily during the test)

He says that the glasses make things look really large and a bit blurry so now I'm worried his prescription is wrong and will be doing more damage than good to his eyes

Hi,

Just had sons eyes tested by high street optician as he has a little squint, worse when tired and constantly complaining headaches, blinking rubbing eyes etc..... He is eight year old and told has to wear glasses all the time prescription R +1.25 Ds L 0.75 Ds
Not really sure about long term etc as a little shocked on the day and didn't ask any other questions - what does this mean and is it long term should he be seen in a special clinic or is the high street optician all that is needed.
Thanks

In case someone has experience this, I'll post my question here. Do your children see colours at night?

Hi...Thank you so much in advance. My little girl (3 in March) got glasses today for the first time. She has +2.5 in both eyes according to her prescription. She was fine with wearing them as 2 of older brothers also have glasses(one has an astigmatism and the other farsighted) that was until she started to watch tv.......she says it's all fuzzy and backways. Not sure what she means by that by they were her words. Is it normal for things to look blurry at first and will it take time for her to get used to them??? Thanks again for any advice you can give :)

Hi Everyone,
We adopted our daughter at 14 months and she was born with cataract. She had an eye operation at 19 months to remove cataract and insert with power lens. She is 8 years old and only have 15% vision on her right eye and no longer can have full vision. She has astigmatism, long and short sight on her right eye as well. The specialist said that is all the vision she will have. Any possibility of alternate treatment for her eye?

Appreciate all your help and comments.

Saileng

i have eye sight..am a pregnant..will my baby get eye sight??
wat to do??
solution pls

Hi CheekyGinger,

It is so kind of you to have opened this post. Never did I think I would be looking up lazy eye as a new mom.

My daughter is 14 months and just this past week she was sick with a cold and is also teething when I noticed her right eye drift outward. Since she first did it, I observed her obsessively and noticed that she does this when she is daydreaming, tired and looking distantly without much thought. She also began to rub her eyes during the day.. or I am just noticing it more. I started looking it up online and am sick to my stomach thinking of only the worst case scenarios of her living with a constant lazy eye or something .. and the best case scenario of her needing glasses at such a young age or surgery isn't easy to swallow also.

I don't know if I am now over obsessing but now when I look at her I feel like the right isn't the problem but the left is the one that is going inward.. I can't tell... she runs her left eye more.

Also, she had right torticollis if that's related? And her left eye tear duct has frequent clogs since birth. So many thoughts are running through my mind. She was full term 39 weeks and 7.1lbs. Developing fine except her weight and height is 25th percentile. Had her eye checked VET at 7 months and no problems.

My husband's side of the family has poor vision but I don't think any strambius. I keep thinking I did something wrong like when she fell and hit her head.

I have an appt this week with a pediatric opthamologist but in the meantime panicked, worried, and sad about this whole thing.

Is there a chance she can correct her vision thru glasses? Will he lazy eye get worse and become constant?

Thank you,
Helen