If parents find that their children love to stare at something stunned, often tilt their heads to look at things, outdoors or in the sun when the child will close one eye, asymmetrical position of the eyes and other symptoms, be vigilant whether the child suffers from "strabismus".
Strabismus is a disorder in which the movements of the eye are uncoordinated due to the imbalance in the strength of the intraocular muscles that control the eyeball. Strabismus in children is the most common eye disease, with an incidence of about 4%. Strabismus occurs at birth and is called congenital strabismus; strabismus, which occurs in childhood, is called secondary strabismus. Common children's strabismus has two kinds of internal oblique and external oblique, internal oblique is commonly known as "to the eye", external oblique is commonly known as "drifting eye", generally one eye is normal, the other eye runs outward.
The dangers of strabismus
Strabismus, although the child does not feel pain or discomfort, but the harm it brings can not be ignored.
Affect the face: the eyes are the window of the mind, many people see strabismus patients will feel strange, involuntarily look at a few more eyes, affecting the child's beauty. Over time, it will cause children to have inferiority and develop a lonely personality, which will affect their learning and social life when they grow up.
Affect the development of visual function: strabismus causes children to be unable to use both eyes at the same time, and the eyes on the side of strabismus will be "lazy", so that the phenomenon of amblyopia will slowly appear, called strabismus amblyopia, affecting the child's vision. There will also be many restrictions on future career choices. The inability of both eyes to gaze at the same place leads to a lack of three-dimensionality, an inability to accurately distinguish between the front and back distances of objects, and a sense of bump.
Affect neck development: For children with paralytic strabismus, due to the paralysis of the eye muscles, there will be ghosting in things, so children are accustomed to using special postures such as partial head and side face to see things, which is medically called "compensated head position", and over time, the child's neck bone development is abnormal.
Vigilance: When your child suddenly develops strabismus, you should immediately take your child to the hospital for examination, which may indicate a tumor or other serious neurological disorder.
Treatment of strabismus
The treatment of strabismus is not only for aesthetics, but more importantly, to improve vision and restore a normal visual experience. There are many ways to correct strabismus, and auxiliary treatment can be carried out by optical glasses, wearing triangular prisms, masking, visual training and other methods. However, adjuvant therapy has little effect, and more patients with strabismus need surgery.
When it comes to surgical treatment, many parents can't accept it, feel very dangerous, and move a knife around the eyes, dare not imagine. Therefore, many parents reject the surgical treatment method, as everyone knows, surgery is a more effective way to treat strabismus. Here to help the strabismus surgery to clarify a little is that strabismus surgery is an extraocular surgery, not complicated, the trauma is not large, generally no danger, in most cases can be discharged on the same day. Therefore, if the doctor recommends surgery to treat strabismus, parents should not refuse and obey the doctor's arrangement.
Dr. Huang: Many careful parents will find that newborns also have strabismus, which is a physiological phenomenon. Because the newborn's eyeballs have not yet been fixed, the eye muscles are poorly regulated, transient strabismus appears. Usually after a few weeks, when the baby learns how to control the movement of the eyes, this strabismus will disappear within a few months. However, if after three months, the baby still has strabismus, he needs to go to the hospital as soon as possible for examination.