Polina saw an eye doctor when we first came home and he thought her eyes looked good but wanted to see her back in 6 months for a follow up. We went back in the fall and he noticed some drifting and had us use eye drops to blur one eye to let the other one work harder. After 6 weeks things looked good but shortly later it started to drift again. Polina has now been diagnosed with Strabismus. This seems to be very common in kids adopted from Eastern Europe. She has started to loose vision in her right eye so we have been patching her left eye for 2 hours every day. She will have surgery in May to correct her alignment and hopefully that will be the end of it.
Strabismus also known as squint-eye and crossed-eye, is a condition in which the eyes are not properly aligned with each other. It typically involves a lack of coordination between the extraocular muscles, which prevents bringing the gaze of each eye to the same point in space and thus hampers proper binocular vision, and which may adversely affect depth perception.
Strabismus also known as squint-eye and crossed-eye, is a condition in which the eyes are not properly aligned with each other. It typically involves a lack of coordination between the extraocular muscles, which prevents bringing the gaze of each eye to the same point in space and thus hampers proper binocular vision, and which may adversely affect depth perception.
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