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Treatment of Squint

The treatment aims to correct the hypermetropia with glasses that correct the focusing. Once the glasses are worn, the affected eye is able to focus properly and can therefore align itself with the normal eye and the squint disappears.

To train the alignment of the eye that has squinted, the good eye is covered with a patch until good vision is restored in the squinting eye. At this stage, the squint will often alternate from one eye to the other. This is an encouraging sign, and a muscle-balancing operation at this stage will often complete the cure.

Glasses need to be worn until the nerve-control system is fully developed.

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