Treatment options for Squint in adults – Dr. Sirish Nelivigi

“In adults usually the squint when it happens has been there for a long time, they would have usually got it from childhood in majority of cases. Very few squints in adults have been acquired over a period of time or happen late in age. The squints that happen in younger age happen due to a glass power which has been there which has not been given or it can be due to some opacity somewhere in the conducting area of the light of the eye.
It means if there is a cataract at all the cornea is opaque or situation like that which can cause squint and this squint is carried over in adulthood as well. When this is the situation or even if there is a muscle imbalance causing the squint in adults what we normally have to do a surgery which is the ideal option and this involve creating balance in the muscles. There muscles which are attached to the eye and the red portions are the muscles which are controlling the movement of the eyeball there about 6 red portions for each eye ball on the right left and upper side and lower side in addition to 2 oblique muscles. In adults we assist which of these muscles are weak or stronger which is creating the imbalance. Based on that we release the muscle and then relieve the tension on the muscle or else put traction in the muscle so that the eye ball moves to its original place and aligns to the other eye as well, this is how we normally have to treat squint in adults.