Speaking of the characteristics of our Chinese, everyone talks about black hair and black eyes, but if the black eyes turn white... What's going on?
An 8-year-old boy in Hubei, Xingxing (pseudonym), at the end of last year, his mother suddenly found that the black eyeballs in his right eye turned white, but she did not care too much, until the stars could not see clearly, his mother sent him to the hospital, as soon as he entered the hospital, Xingxing's condition surprised the doctor.
Duan Weiping, director of the Department of Ophthalmology of Wuhan Egger Eye Hospital, introduced that what xingxing's eyes see on the surface is a white reflection, his pupils are all white, and his eyes have been completely blind.
How can this eyeball become blind when it turns white? According to the doctor, the child is called "leukotic pupils", which is caused by cataracts caused by retinopathy. There are many causes of "leukoplasmia", including retinoblastoma, congenital cataracts, etc., of which retinopathy of prematurity is currently the first blinding eye disease in children. Xingxing, on the other hand, was a premature baby who had been taking oxygen in a incubator for a month.
Duan Said that when premature babies are born, most of them need to take oxygen, so in the case of high concentrations of oxygen, the development of blood vessels in the retina is inhibited.
At present, Star's right eye has undergone surgery and has now regained part of his vision and can see the light. In fact, when parents find that their children have "white pupil disease", intraocular diseases have developed to a more serious extent, especially parents of premature babies must pay attention to early examination.
Doctors remind that children who weigh less than 4 pounds and have a history of oxygen inhalation are one month after birth, it is strongly recommended to go to the ophthalmology for specialist screening, and 3 months, 6 months, 9 months to 12 months to do continuous examination.
Source: Hubei Jingshi