I am starting to notice a lazy eye in my four year old daughter. It seems to have started within the last couple of months. She has an eye doctor appointment next week. My questions is, my daughter has long hair and it seems to always go in her face covering her left eye. I am constantly reminded her to take her hair out of her face and putting her hair back but it goes right back. I put barrettes in her hair but she takes them out. Could it be possible that having her hair in her face is causing the lazy eye?
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I guess it can be reversed before 7 with a good chance at results. It doesn't sound like it is from hair in her face, but a visual conflict in her brain.
NO. It is a muscular problem. Often the eye can be trained to straighten up and move as the other eye does. It requires daily exercises and a mini-trampoline. She bounces up and down turning every 5 minutes to face another direction NSEW.
No, it's not her hair. Don't blame yourself, her barrettes falling out, or your daughter. It just happens.
I hope you're seeing an opthamologist? They will give you the right therapies to correct. Be diligent about the therapy and all will be well.
Nope it's not her hair.
I had a lazy eye and now you can't tell. Relax, and wait for the appointment, the Ophthalmologist should tell you everything you need to know.
I had a lazy eye as a child and you can't even tell. =)
Hey, I never got to bounce on a trampoline! =(
i don't think so @ hair in face...but you'll get that question answered next week. if it helps any, i teach and one of our middle school students has had a lazy/cocked (i'm not sure of the difference) eye since birth. i'm not sure what his parents have done for him since then, but they recently got him surgery and its totally fixed.
My neice has this, and she is wearing glasses that are working to strengthen the weaker eye, it's actually working quite well. She periodically goes back and has them adjusted. Yes, surgery is effective, oddly my mother devoloped this aobut a year ago at 58, and its WAY more difficult to treat as an adult! Don't worry, you are catching it young and it will work out!
Probably not, but doing something for her now instead of when she gets even older will be super important, so I am glad you are going to the eye doctor soon. Things have come a long way since I was a baby (in the 70s), but I had surgery 3 times to correct my lazy eyes, the last one when I was 7 years old. For the most part, I haven't had a lot of problems and because I was so young, my muscles were able to be "retrained". People notice my lazy eye now when I am over tired, but that is about it. Good luck!
no her hair is not the cause. Whatever you have to do to treat this, please follow your doctors advice.
I have lazy eyes, and I have had to deal with this all my life. I went through all the eye glasses, exercises, nothing worked. My lovely mother did not allow me to have surgery when I was 7 or follow through with the doctor’s advice when I was younger, and now I will suffer through the embarrassment for my life as it can never be fixed...
As others have said, no. My step-daughter had this. If I have the terms right, the muscle weakness causes the eyes to not align correctly and this misalignment is called strabismus. When the eyes don't align, the brain may start to ignore images from the weaker eye and this is called amblyopia. My step-daughter was treated at age 5 with glasses and an eye patch. The treatment worked. Unfortunately, her mother decided that she didn't really need to continue wearing glasses and now she is 13 and has permanently weakened vision in the "bad" eye and it can never be corrected. So do take the diagnosis seriously and follow through with treatment. If there is weakened vision from this problem, there is a small window of time to correct it (up to age 7, the younger the better) and after that, it's a lost cause.
