Hi, We've recently noticed that our 19 month little boy's eyes (both) will occasionally roll back and to the upper right side when he's tired or sometimes when he's eating. It seems to be involuntary and he is only does it one time and then they come back down. The first time he did it he was staring at his straw while drinking and then his eyes rolled back real quick. We thought maybe he was just trying to gain control of his eyes again, but we've noticed it a handful of times in the last week or two. We are scheduled to have an MRI and EEG next week, but just wondering if any of you have experienced something like this before. He is also a bit clumsy, but it's our first so we aren't sure what's normal clumsiness and what's to be of concern. He started walking at 16 months and falls a good bit throughout the day.
Sounds like lazy eye. I had to wear a patch to help my lazy eye strengthen. Still when I get tired, my eye like to wander. But not so much it's noticeable. Just where I notice it. I never had surgery so without glasses I can not see out of my left eye. You don't need an MRI or EEG for it. Just go to the eye doctor and they can tell you it's lazy eye.
Only to say that because of neurological & endocrine issues in the family, and being on boards for children with neuro and endo conditions, I know several who did this at that age and it was seizures. One thing that was helpful to one family was videotaping it. They even put it on You tube so we could see, and it was like you described but quite subtle. It was easy to miss and looked almost like he was just tired and about to fall asleep. But it was a seizure.
Good catch on your part and good for you to be investigating it with a neurologist.
One of my daughters went through MRI and two EEGs but her some similiar issues (she was clumsy and falling a lot even without reason, but more was going on as well) were caused more from endocrine and metabolic/immune issues.
My second boy did this. He would also turn his head sideways when playing with his toy bow-and-arrow, to focus. I finally realized there was something going on with his eyes. It turned out he had lazy eye, which is treated by patching the good eye, forcing the lazy eye to work. It could be something else, I don't know - but it sounds similar to the symptoms my son had. It's very treatable, but only up to a certain age - I think about 5? can't remember.
Sounds like lazy-eye, one of my sisters had it. She was given exercises to strengthen the eyes and glasses. Have his eyes been tested? Even if he is too young and cannot tell the doctor what he sees, the doctor has equipment to look into his eye and can see problems.
My sister did have it in both eyes, one more than the other, and wore a patch on the less affected eye a few hours each day. She didn't tilt her head, but the worse eye rolled more, it's involuntary, and the muscles needed to be strengthened.
Good that he will be having the MRI and EEG to rule things out. I hope and pray it's nothing too serious, God bless.
My daughter has lazy-eye and we discovered it when she was three. She had similar symptoms. We noticed that when she was of walking age she would often misjudge the wall or steps and fall down or run into the corners of the wall. We just thought she was learning how to walk, but then found out she had a vision issue. She was prescribed glasses. Glasses may not always help as with my daughter so she is in vision therapy. Lazy-eye is very rarely a muscle issue, so if you find it is lazy-eye I would suggest not going the route of surgery, since it is a brain-eye disorder. We were sent to an eye surgeon who was ALL TO EAGER to operate on my daughter even admitting it probably wouldn't help her. Lol To say the least we had a very negative experience with him. We decided to go with Vision therapy which teaches the brain to control the eyes and work them together. It can be a long and hard road like it has been for us, but my daughter has really improved. I'm not sure why insurance doesn't cover eye therapy, because they are discovering that many learning disabilites are actually vision disabilities and with a little vision therapy they all get corrected. I wish you the best and hope that your son gets diagnosed and can start getting better.
A friend's son's eyes were kind of rolling and crossing when he was reading, coloring, writing, or really tired. Turns out he needed glasses so keep that in mind if you are unable to find out through your tests. Maybe an eye doc is the next step.
Some children are born with klutz genes. They drop everything, knock things over and really don't mean to. Falling in the first half year after learning to walk is not strange.
The EEG often doesn't show much. However it is reassuring to know the child brain is okay. Our grandson had to have one after a very severe epileptic attack. He had a few epileptic episodes for a couple of years and then never again. It wasn't a spontaneous cure I'd given him homeopathic silicea for it.
He got the seizures from a vaccination he'd been given.
Why the MRI and EEG??? Why not the eye doctor? Or, was this suggested by the eye doctor? My son rolled his eyes at that age, but it was only when he was tired and I was told it was normal. It freaked me out, but he doesn't do it anymore. Does your son rub his eyes when this happens, or is it like nothing happened? My son always rubbed his eyes. Lazy eye is usually one eye not both (very rare it affects both), so I'm kinda stumped. My son started walking at 11 months and is 2 now and is more clumsy than when he started walking haha I hope worse case scenario your son just needs glasses ;)
