My daughter is 11 years old and a a slight floating eye. It starts to float when she is concentrating really hard or staring at something. She was examined by an eye specialist a couple of years ago and nothing came from it. Kind of like a no big deal. She just had a physical and her pediatrician was questioning it.
Her vision was just checked and she has 20/20 vision.
Have you or anyone you know have a child (pre-teen) with a floating eye? Is it a big deal? My daughter has no pain, bluriness, no vision issue's, no head aches, etc. I just don't know if a floating eye is an underlying problem of something else??!!
Thanks for any opinions or experience's you can send my way!!
I agree with the other poster - get a referral to a good Opthamologist (MD eye doctor). Your pediatrician can give you a name or two.
I strongly suggest a second opinion! BEst of everything.
Granted my older sister and I were much younger (I'm 28 and she's 30), but my sister had a floating eye when she was younger. I would say probably about 7 or 8. The doctor had her wear an eye patch over the opposite eye (the one that does not float) to strengthen the floating eye. All a floating eye is, is that the muscle surrounding that eye is just not as strong as the other eye and it just lets the other one take over. Go back to the eye doctor and have them take care of this now before she's in High School, looking like she just stepped out of Pirates of the Carribean and gets picked on. Good luck!
I agree with Jacqueline about the possibility of having to wear an eye patch. If she has to -even to school- I would try to find the coolest stickers in the market to affix to the eye patch everyday. Instead of having kids making fun of her or talking behind her back she can turn the tables and make them think that she is the coolest kid on the block. Humor can disarm even the meanest of humans!
L.
