What about baby who squint?

Just recently, I've received several comments that my baby has squint eyes. I never noticed it before, I mean it wasn't obvious to me (and I'm still puzzled how others spot it). He has large pupils and the whites of the eyes are not very evident...so when he looks at me, I can't tell.

Has anyone experienced this problem? Some advice would be helpful.

At the same time, I'll probably make an appointment to see the paed in case it develops into something serious.

And the reply from another mom :

Hello! My daughter (today is her birthday!!!) has ambloypia (lazy eye), amongst other problems (squint is a different prob).... my advice would be to take your child to a paed optamologist or optemetrist. Don't go to a normal one cos they may not have the necessary experience to examine an uncooperative child who may not understand what is required (they can't read a chart for one and their eye won't stay still long enuf for the dr to check).

What your paed said is true. However, I don't mean to scare you, but none of our paed discovered her condition for the first 3 years of her life because they are not trained too. To be fair, her condition is quite rare. We found out when she was 3 but the problem was actually detectable much earlier. We just didn't know the signs. Plus, sometimes, the squint only appears when they are tired. In her case, it only happens a hour or so before her afternoon nap, cos the eye muscles are tired, so they relax and you'll see the eye go wondering around .........

I used to go to Selayang (RM5 per visit!) before their paed optamologist went into private practice (Gleneagles, I think). He was very good with children. I don't know if they have a new one (we have yearly check-ups now and the next one is not due until dec- the dr gave up on us...). I think most of the private hosp (SJMC etc) have paed optamologist.

There is an optometrist I know in Shah Alam who is quite experienced with children. We see her for contact lens (we see a lot of different drs....)You could try her too. Let me know if you need the contact.

If there is a problem, it's best addressed as young as possible because the prognosis would be better. Most of the time, some patching will sort the problem out. Ours is a more complicated case.