Strabismus: Signs and Symptoms and Causes

Question 1

Strabismus: Causes

Answer 1

Do not have a well understood cause

Usually begins in infancy or childhood

Need glasses for farsightedness

Seems to develop because the eye muscles are uncoordinated and do not move the eyes together

Acquired strabismus can occasionally occur because of a problem in the brain, an injury to the eye socket, or thyroid eye disease

Question 2

Strabismus: Signs and Symptoms

Children

Answer 2

1. May hold their heads to one side if they can use their eyes together in that position
2. May close or cover one eye when it deviate especially at first

Question 3

Strabismus: Signs and Symptoms

Adults

Answer 3

1. Have more symptoms
2. Double vision (sees a second image)
3. May lose depth perception