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Lazy Eye

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Anyone's LO have a lazy eye?

I took Natalie  to her one year appointment on Tuesday and the doctor said something about her eye. She was concerned that she was starting to develop a lazy eye. Yesterday at my ILs house she was playing with the next door neighbor's dog. The neighbor is an Optometrist and looked at her eye and said it's definitely starting to become lazy. I have an appointment set up for a pediatric optometrist tomorrow.

Just wondering what all I should expect at the appointment and ways they may try to treat it. Thanks guys.

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  • madhatter2003madhatter2003

    I have no idea what the appointment will be like, but good luck tomorrow.

    I know my retina specialist said the drops I had to use after my retina surgery are used to treat children for lazy eye issues, so I'd assume that's an option. Otherwise I know they used to do patches over the good eye.

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  • amwadasamwadas

    They will check her eyes and evaluate if it is in fact lazy. Generally they shine a light in her eyes, do measurements with different instruments. Nothing is painful, but some kids don't like the bright lights.

    I would guess they will recommend patching her non-lazy eye to get her to use her lazy eye. We medically patch our DD - we put a drop in her good eye to blur her vision to get her to use her bad eye since she shuts down when we patch and won't open her eye. Feel free to page me with any questions - been dealing with eye stuff since birth. Good luck!

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  • electricdoctor83electricdoctor83 member

    We had Jack looked at by an eye doctor too because our pedi mentioned she might have seen a bit of a lazy eye.  The eye doctor said he looked fine with no signs of any issue, just said that his nasal bridge is so wide it makes him appear to have a inward turn to one eye.

    Make sure she is well rested and not hungry for the appointment.  They do a lot of covering up one eye and having the child look at something interesting on the other side (for us it was this creepy barking dog).  If Jack was cranky there would have been no way he would have cooperated.

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  • sam19sam19 member
    Thanks ladies. I can't even tell anything is wrong with her eye when I look at it. It's not even noticable to me. I think the doctor's caught it early so hoping it should be easy to correct if that is the problem.
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  • DiRiDiRi
    My DS has been going through this since he was about 3 months old. They will shine lights, hold up different toys, move them around see how the eyes follow them. There are lots of options depending on the type of lazy eye and the severity. Most likely the first step will be patching the good eye to strengthen the bad eye. Next step for some is drops but they were not applicable for DS. Then sometimes glasses are an option and then the final resort is eye muscle surgery. My DS had the surgery which is actually a very simple process with a speedy recovery, unfortunately--as is the case with my DS--sometimes they will have to do the surgery multiple times to get the eyes to align and the brain to recognize both eyes and fuse into one image--we are headed into our second surgery soon. I don't want to scare you but I know I wish I would have had a general idea before I went into this process.
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