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Eye balance problem in eight year old child with no previous eye problems?

Ok. My eight year old daughter was sent home from school with a note saying that during a routine eye exam at school it was discovered that she has an "eye balance" problem. I intend to take her to see an optomitrist early next week, but I was hoping that someone could shed some light on this for me since I have no idea what it means to have an eye balance problem. thanks.

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1. Thats bizzar. It sounds to me like the school is just messing things up. Wait until you get to the opt. and get it checked out. Chances are its nothing major, or atleast nothing that cant be fixed with corrective lenses or an eye patch for a few weeks.
2. They may be talking about what is called a lazy eye where the muscles in one eye are weak and thus react slower. This can be seen as one eye moving from side to side for example at a slower rate, thus temporarily giving the look of being cross eyed. This also affects the vision but is easily corrected by merely placing a patch over the better eye to strengthen the weaker eye muscles.
3. It may mean that she has a problem where one eye sees better than the other. I believe it is called an astigmatism. I have this problem, and it is easily corrected by glasses or contacts.
4. When my son was about the same age he had this as well. When I took him to the eye dr. we found out he had what they call strabismiss...basically the lazy eye...He had to have surgery to reposition the eye, then they did the other eye 6 months or so later cause the dr said that the other eye will get it also. It straightened out his eye and now he is in college and holding a b average. But they really cant see properly cause they are straining with the other eye to try to see and after the surgery they will see things that they never saw the right way before....
5. Wait and see what the doc says... If there has never been any problem with this before, you may want to take her to the family doctor and make sure it's nothing serious either... Good luck to you!
6. I've never heard of an eye balance problem, but you might want to take your daughter to a pediatric ophthalmologist, instead of an optometrist. When my son was about your daughter's age, he complained of seeing double when he was reading. He was diagnosed with convergence insufficiency. What that means is that his eyes weren't quite working together, so things up close looked double. The ophthalmologist determined this using a test that I've never seen an optometrist use. My son's problem was corrected with eye exercises, but it might not have been diagnosed if we hadn't seen a specialist. Good luck!