With the progress of science and technology, people's eye habits are getting worse and worse, strabismus is no longer an "exclusive" disease for adults, and pediatric strabismus patients have accounted for a large proportion of strabismus patients. According to statistics, about 10 million of the more than 300 million children in the mainland are strabismus amblyopia patients, and the number is very large. Children's strabismus will not only affect their vision, but also cause other eye diseases, affecting the child's psychology and appearance, which will limit the child's future schooling and career choices to a certain extent. To this end, parents should pay full attention to the problem of children's strabismus, early detection, and early treatment, so as not to leave children with regrets.
Strabismus can self-test
In the eyes of ordinary people, strabismus only affects the appearance of the child, in fact, strabismus is more important to affect the child's binocular visual function, that is to say, when the child's eyes are looking directly forward, if one eye appears strabismus, the strabismus eye will be blind to the things in front of them, that is, the single eye is in a state of inhibition, at this time the eyes can not see at the same time, there is no sense of depth and three-dimensionality.
How can parents tell if their child already has strabismus? Parents can use the eye positioning method - put the flashlight with a spotlight bulb about 33 cm in front of the child, cast the light to the base of his nose, tell the baby to look at the light bulb, and normally should have a reflective point in the center of the baby's pupils. If only one reflective spot is in the center of the pupil and the other is deflected beyond the center of the pupil, it is a sign that your child may have strabismus and should go to the hospital early.
Strabismus is generally divided into 2 categories, namely common strabismus and non-common strabismus, the former refers to the same angle of view of the eye in all directions, the latter is also commonly said paralytic strabismus, that is, it is manifested as strabismus, but the strabismus of both eyes or directions is not the same, and with the development of the disease, there will be diplopia symptoms.
Actively check and seize the opportunity of treatment
A child's visual development begins at birth until the end of adulthood, but the fastest time of development is from birth to 2 years old, and 2 to 12 years old is relatively fast (sensitive period of visual development), which is the best period for treating strabismus. At present, there are two main treatments for strabismus, one is non-surgical therapy and the other is surgical therapy.
Non-surgical therapy mainly refers to the wearing of glasses and masking training methods. If children with esotropia are accompanied by severe moderate to high hyperopia, esotropia can be effectively corrected by wearing fully corrective farsighted glasses. Masking training is mainly the use of healthy eye masking method to eliminate and improve the condition of strabismus.
If a refractive examination reveals that the child with strabismus is not accompanied by myopia, this condition cannot be corrected by wearing glasses and can only be corrected by surgery. Surgical treatment is mainly to adjust the position and strength of the child's external ophthalmos muscle auxiliary point to promote the eye position to the normal range. Congenital upper and lower strabismus and esotropia require surgery in most cases, and non-regulating strabismus with large obliques can often be corrected by surgery.
To complement the surgery, younger children will need to have general anesthesia during strabismus surgery. At present, anesthetic drugs and intraoperative and postoperative monitoring are quite advanced, and will not affect the development of children's brains and intelligence. In addition to the surgical operation, the success rate of strabismus surgery depends on the accuracy of preoperative examination, the correct diagnosis, and the formulation of surgical plan. The most common risk of strabismus surgery is postoperative overcorrection or insufficient correction, if it exceeds a certain degree, it is necessary to do a second operation, but the possibility of secondary surgery is relatively small.