Eye problems

[Jacks50]

Hi all,

My son, who will be 5 next week keeps rolling his eyes - they sort of go off to the side and it looks really disturbing. He says that if he doesn't do it then his eyes hurt. He's not doing it as much when he's concentrating, and he's only starting doing it today, but he's doing it all the time and its really worrying me.

I'll take him to either the docs or the opticians this week but I just wondered if anyone has experienced this before? I'm getting myself into a complete panic about it!

ps, I know I can't get a medical opinion from here, but looking for a bit of reassurance!

thank you

[Otta]

Go to the GP as they can refer to hospital if necessary. High street optician not really qualified for this kind of thing.

[Otta]

Has he said anything about his actual sight when it happens, or is it just a physical (maybe muscular) thing?

[Jacks50]

Thanks Otta. I don't think its anything to do with his sight - but quite hard to tell. He's never complained or shown signs of having trouble with it.

He hasn't done it as much today, but its still going on. We'll go to the docs this week.

Thanks again for replying!

[sj]

Could it be a twitch? My son had a series of twitches from that age.

Some didn't last for longer than a few weeks, others for months. One was eye related - he made his eyes go bigger and looked to the side.

No solution other than they pass in time and tend to pass quicker if ignored as much as possible.

Good luck

[EDmummy]

Definitely take him to GP or optician. Both can refer to ophthalmogist. Both of my boys has problems around this age. One had exophoria (both eyes), the other a slight squint. Exophoria treated with eye exercise, the other has grown out of it. Nothing to worry about but worth checking out.

[Jacks50]

Thank you everyone for your advice. We've just been to the docs who wasn't sure but asked me to keep an eye (ha!) on it, try and write down when he's doing it etc. I'm taking him to the opticians on Wednesday too

Thanks again

[boyohboy]

My son had similar symptoms to this and it turned out he just had a touch of conjunctivitis which was easily treated - the eye rolling was the equivalent of scratching the bits he couldn't reach! Good luck!