How can I keep my child’s intermittent exotropia from getting worse?
Common sense approaches to caring for your child will help to control intermittent exotropia as much as possible. For example, be sure that your child gets the recommended amount of sleep for age—many children don’t! Do your best to help her stay healthy, and understand that when she gets sick, the intermittent exotropia is likely to temporarily occur more frequently. See your ophthalmologist as often as recommended, in order to keep your child’s visual system fine-tuned. Otherwise, the progression of intermittent exotropia is not something that we can predictably control.
