Child squint in one eye

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Hi has anyone ever had different opinions from eye hospital? My child is almost blind in his eye with the squint, but was told he had poor eyesight in other eye. Now they are saying he has perfect vision in his other eye. School optician says he has very poor eyesight in both eyes and school say he is having a lot of problems seeing at school. When I told orthapologist this they said they were wrong. Any ideas what I can do I'm very worried. We are currently putting drops in his good eye twice per week to see if can help vision in poor eye. Any advice would be great.

I'm an orthoptist and work in an eye clinic.

Do you live in the UK?

I would think you should trust in what your Ophthalmologist is saying. He/she would have carried out a more thorough test than what the "School optician" would have carried out.

If your LO is having drops in his good eye to treat the poor vision of his other. These drops blur the vision of the good eye so that the lazy eye can then be encouraged to "work". If your school optician has tested the vision when the drops are in then yes it will appear that the vision is poor in both eyes, but that is the point if the drops.

If the vision is "Lazy" in one eye then the only way to get it to work better is by either patching the "good" eye or using the drops to blur the vision.

Hope this makes sense ! i have a thread going called "Squints lazy eyes and glasses" if you want to post on there....

Thankyou for your reply, my child didn't have the drops in the eye at the time of testing. It is the eye hospital that gave me different opinions when we seen different specialists as they were changing over a one left and another person coverd until another permanant person was available (hope that makes sense lol). I have been told it is really just one final attempt to see if we can get poor eye to work. The problems at school started before this. They were giving my child a microfying glass to helping him to see, sitting him at the front of the class etc. Almost daily they are telling me he is having difficulty seeing, monovering around furniture etc. I told the hospital this and they told me to stop them using microfing glass as could make his eye worse. I really don't know what to do. Any help would be most appreciated thankyou.