What to do? Caught something on camera...

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I took some photos for my son's school during their Christmas Nativity. As I was just editing them I noticed that one little girl had a white pupil. I thought it was a case of red eye, so zoomed in to fix it. However, one pupil was black and the other white.

I looked at other pictures and they are all the same.

I got concerned because I am sure I have heard that this is how a mother diagnosed her daughter's eye cancer...retino something or another

Should I mention anything to the school? Does it sound like I am loopy?

crikey 0- i was just wondering about this too

Any news?

Still wondering - hope everything turned out ok.

ooh I was thinking about this too....

my lilbro lost his eye to a retinablastoma and thats exactly how it was diagnosed. it can progress so quickly, hope everythings ok!

I know two people who had retina blastoma, the first was my best friend at school and my roommate in boarding school. Hers was picked up because of the change in colouration of the eyes. It is a form of cancer and it is hireditory. Unfortunately treatment usually involves removal of the eye. The other person was also diagnosed at 6 months and again he lost both eyes to the condition.

Now, I don't know whether this is at all relevant, but both these people went on to develop other kinds of cancer later in life. The first actually died at age 18, and the second has just recently been diagnosed with limfatic cancer and is undergoing treatment.

Hope this turns out not to be anything sinister.

Any news? either a response from head or medical response?

I am hoping the school have realised just how worrying this is. If not maybe you could put a note in with the pictures and a copy of the information you have in an envelope and ask the class teacher to give it to this child's parents.

they really need to know so that they can do something urgently.

any uodate?

any update

wow....just read this and wanted to thank spagbog. I had never heard of this before and i know its very rare but if i ever see this in a photos I will def be aware. Hopefully what you spotted was nothing but you have raised awareness here. Thank you

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I have kept loking out for this to see an upate!

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yes, I do need to get a life lol lol

My Ds1 has an appointment today at 4.40pm as I too noticed something on a photo taken at xmas, Im trying not to panic, too much- just want dr's opinion after he has checked his red reflex.

His eye flash is claerly different on the pic- ( it is a pic of him and father xmas school xmas party )

good luck with that then emma! Fingers crossed.

oo ogood luck emma.

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hi- panic over ( although dr said it was a pefrectly reasonable panic) I showed him the pic and he went 'ahhh I see' had a good look into ds's eyes and said he could see nothing behind the retina. I was worried before, my Bf worked at Bham childrens specifically with children with R blastoma, and I got a bit over panicked. But it seems to be ok.

thanks for asking!