A Q. about strabismus

[dr4444]

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Dear Doctors,

May I ask you a question about strabismus, is there a relationship between sleep and squint ?

i.e. does lack / adequate sleep worsen / improve the degree of squint ?

Please provide an answer to my question.

All the best

 

[dr4444]

Does anyone has an answer to this question ?

 

[Visionary]

Dear Doctors,

May I ask you a question about strabismus, is there a relationship between sleep and squint ?

i.e. does lack / adequate sleep worsen / improve the degree of squint ?

Please provide an answer to my question.

All the best

I'm not sure anyone completely understands your line of questioning. That is why there have been no answers.

Strabismus is a rather broad topic. I'm not familiar with the term "squint" in relation to strabismus. Are you referring to degree of deviation of the eyes? If so, are you talking about eso-, exo-, or hyper-deviation?

As a general rule, fatigue worsens strabismic deviation, because the mind loses focus on maintaining alignment of the eyes. In fact, someone who does not even have strabismus will have an outward deviation of the eyes when near sleep. This is the relaxed state of the eyes.

Hope this addresses your question. If not, you need to rephrase.

 

[Free Radicle]

Strabismus is a greek work meaning "squint" - used to describe people who would squint the deviated eye to improve acuity/diploplia etc

 

[dr4444]

Thank you for your replies

may I rephrase the question

Can an orthphoric person develop esotropia (or) exotropia due to lack of sleep ?

 

[PBEA]

Short answer is yes, long answer is no. In other words it isn't constant.