Birkhead: Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter Dannielynn Suffers From Eye Condition
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Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn suffers from "strabismus, which is a turning in of one of her eyes," the baby's father, Larry Birkhead, told "Entertainment Tonight."
"I've been taking her to the doctors and ... [mom] Anna [Nicole Smith] had taken Dannielynn to the doctor [in the Bahamas] to see about it when she was just a few months old," he told the program.
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Birkhead said the child wears an eye patch to help treat the condition, which is common in about 5 percent of children and cannot be outgrown.
"At first she was really open to it and it didn't really bother her," he said. "Now, she's gotten a little smart because she can pull it off, so it's a little bit harder for me to patch her."
She also takes medicated eyedrops. But if neither works, he says she may have to have surgery.
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"I'm going to do everything to make sure that it's corrected," he said, "but having lost Anna and [her son] Daniel and my dad — my dad just came out of a simple surgery and he died — it's just tough for me to think about surgeries with [Dannielynn]."
He said he is not sure how she developed the eye condition.
"All of the opinions that I had [from doctors], every one of them said that it's very, very unlikely, because no one knows one-hundred percent what causes [strabismus]," said Birkhead.
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"But I point-blank ask every single doctor, 'Could any medications that Anna was on have caused this?' and they said that it's more likely that a genetic reason could have caused it."