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BABY BORN WITHOUT EYES

Feb 02, 2010 19:09

Guys, I love you, and it's a fascinating subject, but please try to remember that this is supposed to be a mostly scientific and objective forum. Of course we poke fun at everything (ex: this baby, rare diseases, other awful things that aren't that funny irl), but this is also not a political forum. This post is about a specific case of a ( Read more... )

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king February 3 2010, 00:26:10 UTC

eye nubs
oh god

owlsie February 3 2010, 02:05:52 UTC

the eye tubes look like plastic. maybe the doctors put them there for drainage or something? i don't know, but anophthalmia doesn't typically come with eye tubes as far as i know

premium_shaday February 3 2010, 02:16:50 UTC

From Wikipedia:
"Secondary anophthalmia the eye starts to develop and for some reason stops, leaving the infant with only residual eye tissue or extremely small eyes which can only be seen under close examination."

I would say the snail eyes are just residual tissue.

But you do have a point, they could be drainage tubes. The video quality is TOO LOW to be able to really know for actuals... I'm looking in to it.

lorienellen February 3 2010, 02:35:25 UTC

This. They looked like something the doctor put in there.

premium_shaday February 3 2010, 02:47:15 UTC

OKAY YOU'RE IN THE POST NOW, HOPE YOU'RE OKAY WITH THAT.

I had to share your revolutionary theory. It was the opposite of snail eyes, but just as likely.

owlsie February 3 2010, 03:09:39 UTC

nw

i think they said something about her having surgery so her face doesn't end up deformed or something, so that might explain the tubes too

so sad, she is such a cuet behby :(

space_aged February 3 2010, 04:21:53 UTC

I think you are right, they may be part of an implant to help the eye sockets to grow. My son has an implant in one socket (no stub, tho), and we were told without it, his skull wouldn't form correctly. Perhaps these are temporary and they are working up to larger ones in the future?

finchwench February 3 2010, 08:47:42 UTC

They are apparently peg ocular conformers. This is the first step in fitting a patient with orbital expanders for ocular prostheses. See this photo, especially.

owlsie February 3 2010, 09:13:08 UTC

Thanks for the info!

blasphemusfish February 3 2010, 04:43:55 UTC

I think you're right, perhaps to prevent the lids from sealing? There might be dead space behind the lids if that happened, and a perfect environment for infection.

owlsie February 3 2010, 05:06:39 UTC

Right, yeah.

blasphemusfish February 3 2010, 04:45:28 UTC

Oou and they might want to give her glass eyes etc when she's older as an aesthetic.

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