My two-year-old daughter is very healthy, but she does one
thing that worries me.  She will take things and press them
into her left eye, and she pushes pretty hard.  She does
this more toward the end of the day when she's tired, but
it is just the one eye.  When she was born the tear duct in
that eye didn't open for a month or so, but now it's working.
Maybe tear duct is the wrong word -  I mean that canal that
takes tears and stuff away from the eye and into the nose.

I've asked the pediatrician about it, but she is always
dismissive, which is not reassuring at all.  Is this just something
my daughter will outgrow or could there be a problem?

12 responses total.

Ask a different pediatrician. Something is bothering the child and
the action might be detrimental. 

Ask a serious eye specialist or two or more.  

Possible fatigue due to a problem with the other eye?
Get thee to an ophthalmologist.

Her eye may be dry or achy. It's her way of alleviating whatever's 
causing discomfort.

Out of curiousity, does that eye produce much liquid? It might be that she's
trying to make it tear up and relieve dry eye.  You may want to talk to an
eye doctor (If you're in the Ann Arbor area, there is a great Pediatric
Opthomologist at St. Joes...only one in the area, in fact), and I would
definately look into other pediatricians...if the one that you have just
doesn't seem to care about that, then what else are they not caring about
and missing?

There are no symptoms other than the eye-pressing.  No redness,
no fluid, it tears normally when she cries, no visible difference
from the other eye.

What does she say is the reason (if at 2 she can indicate what might
be the matter)?

Re: #6  All of those observations could be correct yet
she could have any one of a number of problems brewing,
including glaucoma, which is rare in children but often
results in permanent blindness because it doesn't get
caught in time.

Why not take her to an opthalmologist and be safe?

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