Double Vision

[bananasmoothie]

My two sons have both been under the care of the orphoptist for a squint, they both wear glasses, eldest son has had an operation to correct his squint and it's now ok as long as he wears his glasses, youngest sons squint is still quite bad.

The thing is my youngest son (now 6) keeps telling me he see's everything in "two's", it's double vision with him all the time, he's not yet had an operation and the hospital havn't mentioned him having one...is double vision normal with kids with squints?

Is he seeing 'double' when his glasses are on or off?

DS1 (7) has had squint correction surgery, and all was OK until recently when he lost his glasses and was without for a week.

He too then started seeing double. We got him down to see the consultant asap and he told us it was because without the glasses the squint had crept back a bit, and DS's brain was noticing and acknowledging the 'extra' image.

Do you have another appointment with your specialist soon? if not, I'd try to bring it forward?
Has your son being doing anything different which might have made things change e.g. not wearing his glasses? I also worried that lots of computer games/ gameboy playing (i.e. close focus stuff) wasn't helping DS.

We now have new glasses and things are a little better, but not completely normal. However our eye consultant said to try not to keep mentioning it to DS, as his brain has to learn to forget to see the 'second' image, and instead work on just the one image.

We have another appointment in about 8 weeks.
I really hope we're not heading for more surgery though .

Hope things work out OK for you Banana.....