ds may have a squint - any experience?

[bubblymummy]

Hi my ds is 9 months old and I've felt he's got a bit of a squint. The doctor feels the same and we're waiting for a an appointment at a squint clinic.

I'm really quite worried in the sense I hope this doesn't affect his sight. Does anyone know about this and how it's treated and how do babies cope with this?

Many thanks

Not much pratical help to offer, but thought ds had one from a similar age and GP agreed. We were referred to a peadiatric optometrist who agreed that there might be a problem and to come back in 6 months.

Went back and problem had completely disappeared. Explanation we were given was that he had some temporary problems with the muscle in that eye.

Hope someone comes along soon with better advice, but in the meantime, try not to worry.

I don't have experience of that young, but my ds has a micro squint and 'lazy' eye. When he was 3 I took him along to my optician when I had my eyes tested and he couldn't see anything from his right eye. What happens is because the eyes are seeing 2 different images because of the turn in the eye, the brain can't cope so shuts down the eye. This has now been recitified with patching and glasses. As long as all these things are dealt with by the age of 7 they can quite often by rectified.

I'm not sure how they deal with squints in such young babies.

They will test his eyes this can be done by putting drops into the eye. They can then look into the eye and determine if there are any sight problems.

I think the usual practice is to patch the good eye to make the lazy eye work.

My first son has had squint correction operations on both his eyes as they didn't respond to being patched.

Many thanks guys - seems that it can be dealt with. First time mum and still in a tizz!

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just spotted this, wanted to reasure you. My daughter was refered and seen for her squint at 3 months she had her first surgery at 4 months and started patching at 6 months.

She has had 3 surgerys in total and two lots of patching one from 6 months to 18 months then fron 2.5 to 3.
She has straight eyes now and near perfect vision she doesn't need glasses and will proberly need no more treatment.
So although it can be a nightmare its worth treated young before sight problems occur.
Hope your getting on ok with your ds.

my dd has a squint she is now 5 she does not have anything wrong with her eye sight however which is fairly unusual they told us , she has had two operation's to corect the muscles in her eyes so far as the patching did not work for her and glasses were not suitable for her.

She has has to attend the clinics at Moorfields since she was 1 year old and will have to attend until she is 7-8 for regular check ups , her eyes are now almost perfect, most people have never noticed but I see that sometimes one is still not completly straight on occasions.

I noticed a squint in my DS's eye around 6 months. It was a squint that goes to the outside, which are supposed to be more worrying. We had him checked out by the eye people and they said to bring him back in 6 months. We did and it had disappeared.

There is a chance that it may not correct, but it can be corrected with an operation. Your childs eyes are still growing and this my be causing the squint.

Is it all the time, or sporadical?