I have heard about patching quite often. Is the eye that is affected
with Duane's patched? Does this help with a head turn? It sounds like
patching is mostly used for children.
T.J.

--- In duanes@yahoogroups.com, Kathy & Ken Chruscielski <kcmail@...>
wrote:
>
> My son wore glasses from about age two until
> age seven. The glasses helped with his alignment
> because, as the doctor explained, your eye muscles
> strain to focus. That pulls on the unopposed (duanes)
> muscle. My son's eyes were normal for a small child
> (meaning that they were still more round than oval
> and benefit from correction). When he outgrew his
> need for glasses we joked that he got Lasik for Christmas.
>
> We also patched starting at age two. It was hard because
> he hated it at the beginning, but got used to it. As he got
> older the time had to be increased from an hour a day to
> four hours. When we increased the patching, the misalignment
> would decrease. There has been some discussion about this
> in the archives.
>
> Drops were not introduced until the end of our patching days, but
> would have been nice on the days when we went out to
> the playground or store when we would hear the occasional
> "What happenned to his eye??"
>
> I don't think the patch on the glasses would work for us because
> we had a hard time keeping our son from looking over the top
> of his glasses. I learned how to adjust the frames with pliers
> to keep them snug on his face so it was harder to look over the
> top (or around the sides).
>
>
> Kathy
>