What to do if your eight-month-old baby crosses his eyes

We often see many newborn babies with crossed eyes. Parents become very anxious about this symptom, not knowing what causes their children to have crossed eyes. In fact, crossed eyes are what we often call cross-eyes, which is also a type of esotropia. The main manifestation is that the eyes will lean towards the middle when looking forward at objects, so it looks like the eyes are facing each other. What should I do if my eight-month-old baby has crossed eyes?

What is cross-eye?

"Cross-eyed" is what people often call "cross-eyed", which is medically known as "esotropia". It manifests as one eye looking forward at an object while the other eye turns inward toward the nose, or when both eyes are looking at an object, both eyes turn inward.

Is it normal for newborns to have crossed eyes?

Cross-eyes is a common condition among many babies under 2 years old. This is because the newborn's nose bridge is low, so the inner canthus of the eyes moves outward, that is, the inner distance between the two eyes is larger, causing part of the inner white of the two eyes to be covered, forming a false "cross-eyes" phenomenon. As the baby grows older, the bridge of the nose will grow higher and the "cross-eyes" phenomenon will gradually disappear. This means that the "cross-eyes" of newborns are mostly normal.

How to solve the problem of baby's "crossed eyes"?

From newborn to infant, babies may experience false "cross-eyes". So what should we do if the baby has "cross-eyes"? Let us first understand how to distinguish whether the baby's "cross-eyes" are true or false. Generally speaking, if you gently pinch the skin on the bridge of the nose and shine a flashlight on the bridge of the nose, if the light falls on the center of the pupil, it is false "cross-eyes", and if the light falls on the outer part of the cornea, it is true "cross-eyes".

Therefore, this has become an old saying often said by many elderly people: "There is no need to treat children's crossed eyes, it will get better naturally when they grow up." This is what we just talked about, the situation of false "crossed eyes" in babies. If parents are worried that their baby really has "cross-eye", they can also take him to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment to avoid delaying the disease.