Eye patch - quick question

[cloudymeatballs]

My ds has started using an eye patch again, but when he does he said he can't see (through the uncovered eye ). I asked him to pass me something from right next to him earlier...just to test him...and he really couldn't see!! is this normal? if he is wearing glasses at the time which are supposed to help his bad eye....should his eyesight be affected that much by covering the good eye???

If you have a very bad squint it is possible that the brain stops processing images from the bad eye.

If he is not using the bad eye, then yes, this is normal. My DS recently had to start wearing patches again and complained every day that he could not see. It soon improved though and his sight in the bad eye is only two lines less than the good eye now. It took about 6 weeks to really notice a difference and 12 for the full effect to happen.

Thanks Indigo I'm quite sure the optician which ds was sent to said that his eye was caught just in time? even though it is now shaped like a rugby ball....absolutely gutted I had been mentioning a squint in his eye since he was 12 months (runs in the family) but he was tested and they said everything was fine and as per I let him down by not using my brain and taking him to an opticians! low and behold when he hit 5 a school eye test flagged probs.

He is devastated MammaTJ he spent jan-dec last year having his patches on 4 hrs a day. His left eye is perfect but his right improved so it was just about in the legal limit for driving ( thats what his orthoptist said anyways) and from jan this year till a week ago he dropped 2 lines. The thing is he has been wearing his glasses so whether he has been looking over them (because he insists he can not see through them) I'm not sure.