Abducens palsy; Lateral rectus palsy; Vith nerve palsy; Cranial nerve VI palsy

If your health care provider diagnoses swelling or inflammation of, or around the nerve, medications called corticosteroids will be used.

Sometimes, the condition may disappear without treatment. People with diabetes may benefit from close control of blood sugar levels.

Until the nerve heals, wearing an eye patch will relieve double vision.

Treating the cause may improve the condition. Most people in whom no cause is found recover completely.

Complications may include permanent vision changes.

Call your health care provider if you have double vision.

Images

Central nervous system

Previous Section

Cranial mononeuropathy VI Symptoms

Next Section

Cranial mononeuropathy VI Prevention

Review Date: 06/15/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Daniel B. Hoch, PhD, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)