| Title: | Parenting |
| Notice: | Previous PARENTING version at MOIRA::PARENTING_V3 |
| Moderator: | GEMEVN::FAIMAN Y |
| Created: | Thu Apr 09 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1292 |
| Total number of notes: | 34837 |
Hello,
Has anyone heard of a child being born with a congenital cataract? My
daughter was born in April with this and she had the lens of her eye
removed when she was four weeks old. Now she wears a contact lens. In a
few more years she will either have a donor implant, her cornea shaved
to act like a lens or she will have an intraoccular implant. Our main
concern now is that the eye that was operated on has stopped growing.
Her healthy eye is about twice the size. It is really tearing my heart
out to see this happening. We are going to a Mass eye and ear doctor
Monday for a second opinion.
Any information will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Cindy
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| 269.1 | Not Common | AIMHI::OBRIEN_J | Yabba Dabba DOO | Fri Aug 14 1992 13:38 | 10 |
Cindy, my niece was born with Congenital Cataracts in both eyes. She
is 19 years old now. She had only one eye done when she was 3-4 years old
and has worn contacts ever since (and was able to put them in by
herself when she was 5). Her eyes did grow appropriately. I'll talk
with my brother and find out who her doctor is/was. I believe he was
out of Mass, Eye & Ear and would come to Lawrence, MA hospital once a week
(that is where my niece had the operation done).
Julie
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