Patching a Lazy Eye?

Question

My daughter is 5 years old. She was born w/a lazy eye. We have been working on fixing it. I took her to a specialist, and she wearing, 1 contact in her bad eye and glasses with the contact, she is suppose to wear the patch along w/both of them. I noticed though I patched her eye for 1 week for about 4 hours a day. and I noticed her GOOD eye going crossed. That to me is a bad sign. Should I stop patching or should I countine with it?

Answer 1

It may be a sign that she is starting to use the lazy eye and that is a good thing. Continue patching, call the specialist's office and tell them but do not discontinue patching unless the specialists tells you to.

Patching is the standard treatment for lazy eye.

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Answer 2

I was born with a lazy eye. I had an operation to tighten the muscles which brought the eye back to the centre.
in Grade 1 I had to patch for 2 years. The muscles became stronger but as a result, my eyes do not work together and my vision is failing in the lazy eye. This may be because I didn't patch long enough but as you can imagine, i was teased a lot because of the patching and i became very shy and and very low self esteem.
If i were you, continue patching but tell your specialist about the crossing of the eye. Do everything you can to help your daughter now rather than leaving it too late. Eyes are very important!

Answer 3

patching is the normal treatment for lazy eye. they actually can do surgery to tighten the muscles. If her eye is crossing, ball her doctor and let them know, she may not need to wear the contact/glasses combo with the patch.

Answer 4

Jody is right. this may be GOOD news that the "bad" eye is now being used some. but check with your doc.

also...make sure you're patching the GOOD eye. it wasnt apparent to me from your post which eye you were patching. patch the GOOD one.