Strabismus and Lazy Eye

My girl has been wearing glasses for a few months now. She has an appt now. She has gone with her Dad. She has a patch but hasn't been wearing it. Tsk tsk. There was some confusion on which is her lazy eye!

Alyssa had her appointment today.  The orthoptist is so wonderful with her...much better than the ophthalmologist.  She is quiet happy with her small but positive progress.  It really does appear that Alyssa's eyes are beginning to correct....still good and bad days.  There was a stage where her condition was worsening; and if it has only gotten marginly better, things aren't worse.  Her vision on both sides are equal, which means they will not patch at this stage.

yet another appointment on 6th December.

I can actually cross one of my eyes in on purpose and it is worse than simply crossing both your eyes.

This is a picture of Alyssa in January this year.  She normally wears glasses.  Although she still squints with them on, it is not as bad as this.  We have an appointment to see the opthalmologist...again.....31st August for further investigations.

At her school health check, I was told my daughter may have a lazy eye. This was last year. This year they were even more concerned and said it hasn't corrected itself. On Wednesday we have a appointment to see the optometrist. My girl is worried and thinks she will have her eye taken out while she is a sleep. We have been telling her to cover her good eye and read. Not sure if this helps but have read that it may.
Is it hereditary? My sis in law has a lazy eye.

We (my husband and I) noticed that putting codi in the swing helped teach him how to re-align his eyes to see clearly.  We followed this over months and when we moved house we didn't put the swing up for a while and he relapsed (patching didn't work)...We told our specialist and he was buzzed (he may do a clinic trial to explore this further).... We swing codi three to four times a day (also relaxes him)...

...we always tell Codi when his left eye wanders to "use your eye Codi" and he has learnt to know this and correct it, which also made our specialist happy. We have been doing this since Codi has eye surgery to correct both his eyes at 10 months. He will be two in 2 weeks.

...our specialist mention the motion of up and down, also has a lot to do with the movement control of the ear and eyes, and how they are connected....this is so exciting for us!!! We hope to continue to see how Codi's eyes improve.

I hope our specialist does do this trial, under various types and severities of the squint conditions and hopefully it will help more families have hope, as well as something they can do to help correct the issues.

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