Infant, Eyes Rolling Back

[Griff917]

My 4 month old baby's eyes have been rolling backwards when ever she takes a bottle or sucks on her pacifier.  As we have seen it with her no other time, so the eye movement seems to be directly related to her sucking.  She has had a battery of tests done at the hospital, including CAT scan, EEG, spinal tap, blood test, all of which have come back okay.  The neurologist and pediatrician have temporarily diagnosed her with Duane Syndrome, although after researching this myself I do not believe that she has this as her eye movement only seems to be related to feeding, her eyes appear normal and her vision seems fine.  She is going to a pediatric opthamologist soon for further testing.  Has anyone ever heard of a connection of eye rolling to feeding??? Please let me know.

[ladybirdie]

I'm not sure this will help or not...  my little one, and also a friend of mine's son, used to roll their eyes back in their heads when they were falling asleep.  This happened often when they were feeding or sucking on soothers because it's comforting, and sleep inducing behaviour.  I'm not sure if this is the same thing you are experincing with your little one, but I too was worried.  Having the baby checked out by these physicians is always a good idea, and it sounds like you are doing a great job of finding out what the problem is.  My son is now six months old and doesn't exhibit this behavior anymore- all the best!  

[madnmas]

I commented on this on your other thread.....don't take everything everyone says to heart. People can post the worst case scenarios and I think it is very rude.

Please read my post as you have nothing to worry about.

[Caliber2005]

Hi,
I feel it can be GERD causing aspirations causing hypoxia causing seizures. When this EEG was done, what was the condition of the child? Was he awake or sleepy? Was he having those episodes or not?
Duane syndrome (DS) is a rare, congenital disorder of eye movement. IDS is a miswiring of the eye muscles that causes some eye muscles to contract when they should not and other eye muscles not to contract when they should. People with DS have a limited and sometimes absent ability to move their eye outward toward the ear (i.e. abduction), and in most cases, they have a limited ability to move the eye inward toward the nose (i.e. adduction).
Hope this helps you.
Bye.