Thursday, March 4, 2010

babys pupils

Question
i have a week old baby and am wondering if it is normal for her pupils to be round on top and oval shaped at the bottoms


Answer
No, that is not really normal.  There is no hurry but eventually you should take your baby to a pediatric ophthalmologist.  Your baby may have a partial coloboma, a fairly harmless (usually) condition where parts of the eye did not fully form before birth.  In most cases, this poses few or no problems (minimal or no vision loss) for the child but you do need an official diagnosis to be sure it is not something else.