Ok... so this was taken of my 2 kids a few minutes ago..

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Susan, my ds (the pick with the eyes with the awful coloring under them) had allergy testing that came back fine. He has no obvious allergies to anything either. The pupils.. those belong to my 5 year old dd.

 

Your daughters eyes in that picture are exactly what I see in my kids. I can't believe the difference in that picture from your NYC ones.

 

Oh, and I think my kids seem to fluctuate from moment to moment too.. there were times today that my dd's eyes didn't look like that but that picture was from today.. even in the same lighting.

 

 

It is uncanny how much the look in the eyes looks like my ds's when they are having trouble. Mine don't change within minutes, though - it seems be constant during a flare (which usually lasts 1-2 weeks). Our pediatrician can even see at a glance how they're doing from the eyes.

 

 

 

I agree about the reaction, even with the flash and the allergy look. Have you had allergy testing or using allergy meds at this point?

 

You have me obsessed (OK, I should not use that word for myself!) tonight with my dd's eyes but I can't get a good example of the two of them. But, dd8 was not feeling well tonight. She was angry and moody and irritated and her eyes were dialiated more than dd7. I took this picture with no flash. The thing that amazes me is that they can change within minutes when she switches out of the mood, her eyes go back to normal. I know this picture does not show a comparison but I don't have a good picture of her sister at the same time.

 

http://images1f.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ff...3B6653338nu0mrj

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I'm finding this eye thing SO interesting! My DS eyes look just like that underneath. It was something the immunologist was always commenting on, that he had "allergic shiners" yet through all allergy testing, she could never find one thing he is allergic to. Poor kid had the whole gammut of allergy testing too. She was really floored by this, has never dealt with PANDAS before in person, but seems to know a bit about it. Even she, who had little contact with my son before, seems to understand how all of these puzzle pieces of his past suddenly came together in the past couple of months - they shiners, the chronic croup, the sleep disturbances and what we're dealing with now.

 

I would imagine it IS hard to get a good photo of the eyes with the flash issue. But I'm certainly going to be looking now when he's in different modes to see what his eyes look like.