Double take: The special approach that corrected one child ’s vision overnight

Dr. David Hunter is a pioneer in detecting and treating children’s eye conditions with a range of new and tried-and-true technologies and techniques. “At school I was seeing double today, Mom,” said 9-year-old Eliza in May of 2015. Catherine hadn’t noticed her daughter’s eyes crossing and suspected that her fourth grader was simply tired. A few weeks later, however, Catherine and her husband were sitting in the front row at Eliza’s chorus concert, when suddenly they both noticed their daughter’s eye was crossed. It was Eliza’s 10th birthday. “She was fine one day, and then the next her eyes weren’t working together,” says Catherine. “It was terrifying.” Losing sight of answers As Eliza struggled to read in school, see where she was going while riding her bike, and watch her steps in dance class, Catherine and her husband struggled with their growing concern over their daughter’s crossed eye. Learn why pediatricians should act fast when seeing esotropia (inwardly-crossed eye). “Is there a neurological issue?” they wondered to each other. “Is it a tumor — cancer, even?” With Eliza’s 4-year-old brother in tow, the Pennsylvania-based family began traveling to different hospitals all over the east coast, seeking answers about what was happening to their daughter’s eye. “I am a researcher by nature,” says Catherine. “I began reading everything I could about crossed eyes.” She read online that Eliza’s type of strabismus (cro...
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