Any eye issues?

taryn30

My son was evaluated today through early intervention. They mentioned that his left eye, and maybe his right eye, turn in and then seem to focus. Just wondering if anyone has any experience or advice? Thanks!

Micelle78

Yes, my DS along with a speech delay and much too much to go over right now, has vision issues.  He is color blind and has pretty bad far-sided vision (+6)

Vision can really hinder progress on many things we found out (contribute to speech delay and fine/gross motor delays). 

If they noticed something, you really need to have preferably a developmental pediatric opthamologist look at your child.  Not sure what other delays your child might have but the vision can interfere with a lot.  It is also possible with eye turning that the brain will shut off vision of that eye and not use it anymore.  This will lead to no depth perception and so on.  Not a great thing. 

We are monitoring DS's vision closely right now.  He just turned 4 and at this point the glasses are helping a TON but his vision is neurological so they may improve with the glasses and they started teaming to the point that he does not need vision therapy at this time.  They were initially concerned with a slight turn of the one eye and the fact they were not working together "teaming" when he was trying to do fine motor activities (which he avoided and we now know why). 

I beat myself up about not getting him checked out sooner but DS was learning to read by the time he turned 3 and he was reading words to me near and far so I had NO IDEA.  I felt so stupid that they were so bad.  Its amazing that he was able to do that given the prescription. 

Micelle78

I just wanted to add that he has had his glasses for exactly a year this month.  He had a very large speech explosion about 2 weeks after getting his glasses AND was all of a sudden climbing up the 2 story mc donalds play land, wanting to use swings and wanting to ride scoot-riding toys-- within a week.  It was like a different kid!  He had avoided all that stuff probably because it was scary not being able to see well.  SIGH... My advice is please don't wait.

brachysira

No exact experience, but we have seen an eye doctor due to a cyst since 4 months, and they say she is far-sighted at around a -6.  They will not give us glasses because they at 18 months she may be able to correct on her own.  She is not delayed and seems to see well.  However, they did tell us that if we notice any weird eye movements that we should come back and probably get glasses.  She may get glasses at some point but may not.  We go to a pediatric eye specialist in a huge eye center over an hour from our home.  I think regular eye people are not really equipped to deal with very young children.

ToastieSimons

My DS2 is farsighted.  His eyes have always crossed but for the first 6 months of life thats common.  At around 9 months i remember his therapists joking about how he was focusing on a toy so hard he went cross eyed!  i started noticing his right eye was turning inward.

I took him to the pedi and he said it was because he was so chubby the fat pads on teh sides of his nose obscure the whites of the eyes and he looks cross eyed, but the light reflecting off his pupils is centered.  I think it's because of how far back he was holding the light.

My DS1 has to go to the opthalmologist for an unrelated eye issue check up.  I decided since we have a low co-pay to take DS2 for peace of mind, if nothing was wrong then I knew I checked into it completely.  The doctor dilated his eyes and within minutes was proclaiming how farsighted DS2 was and he needs glasses immediately.

He is a +6.25 in his left eye and a +6.75 in his right eye.

He has worn glasses since about 11 months and is currently 25 months.  They have completely straightened out his eyes.  Also his reaction time to grabbing for objects improved drastically when we got his glasses.  He used to hesitate for a bit before grabbing something.  We now know it's because he was focusing his eyes on it.

CareBear0607

My DD is far sighted and had an eye that would cross (starting just before 2.5).  The crossing was luckily fixed with just glasses.  She got the glasses at 2.5 years.  She is now 6 and will probably have them the rest of her life.  I would recommend going to a pediatric ophthalmologist.   

thefuturemrskudla

DS is near sighted and wears glasses. He sees a pediatric neuro-ophthalmologist.

CaptainSerious

J has strabismus, or a wandering eye.  In his case, his left eye does not track with his right.  We tried putting drops into his stronger, right eye to blur his vision a bit, in hopes that the left eye would be forced to focus more closely with the right eye.  After a year, it became clear that it wasn't working, and we were told our next best option is surgery.

In September, he will have surgery to weaken the outside muscle on his left eye, in hopes that the muscle on the inside of that eye will be better able to putt the eye inwards and he'll be able to focus both eyes together.

CaptainSerious

Thank you for sharing, @KatyBriggs‌ !

taryn30

Thanks everyone for your response. Appointment made! I'll keep you posted as to the outcome.