“Can glasses fix crossed eyes?”

In some cases they can make them better while wearing glasses or contact lenses

You are not providing enough information to accurately determine what you should do next, but to answer your question, glasses cannot fix crossed eyes. If your eyes are newly crossing, you first need to get evaluated by an ophthalmologist and a neurologist within the next two weeks. If you are not seeing double, then it is unlikely the crossing is new. If you are seeing double, the double vision may change over several weeks, so that would be too soon to get prism glasses. Patients often patch one eye to alleviate the double vision temporarily, because it can be very uncomfortable. Often it will resolve over 3-6 months, but one of those doctors should be following your progress. If it remains double by month 6, and doctors have found no cause, then an optometrist can prescribe glasses with prism to compensate for the double vision when you wear them. If the crossing is big, it will be hard to make glasses, but also, an ophthalmologist who specializes in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus (that's you!) may be able to surgically straighten your eye. If your crossing is old, they may decline to offer surgery, because old crossing in adults is often not stable after surgery, and recurs. Good luck!

Sometimes. Prisms can be used to straighten small amounts of esotropia, or crossed eyes. Also far sighted glasses can correct the condition known as accommodative esotropia. Please see your ophthalmologist. SO

Yes, when you wear them, it can fix crossed eyes temporarily. When you take them off, they will cross again.

Dr. LMJ

Hi,

Glasses can fix crossed eyes. However, it is important to know that glasses control eye crossing rather than completely get rid of it. Most often, the eye crossing returns when you take the glasses off. Surgery is not recommended if glasses control the eye crossing.

Take care!

Too late glasses may work for very young children. You will need surgery