Take A Look At Your Child's Eyes, These 3 Situations May Lead To Amblyopia!
When it comes to children's vision problems, parents talk more about myopia. As everyone knows, amblyopia in children is more terrible than myopia. Once it is discovered too late and the best treatment period for amblyopia is missed, the child is likely to see again.
Amblyopia refers to the visual acuity with the best corrected visual acuity of one eye or both eyes lower than the corresponding age due to abnormal vision such as monocular strabismus, uncorrected anisometropia, high refractive error, and form deprivation during the visual development period. qualitative disease.
According to statistics, among the 300 million children in my country, there are about 10 million children with amblyopia.
For Children With Amblyopia, The Harm Mainly Includes The Following Aspects:
First of all, amblyopia can lead to abnormal development of retinal function in children, resulting in low vision in children, which seriously affects normal life of children.
Second, amblyopia can prevent a child's eyes from working together so that they cannot accurately determine the exact location of objects.
If the condition is more serious, it may also cause exotropia in the eyes with poor vision, which will seriously affect the child's external image.
Finally, if children's amblyopia is not treated in time, it may lead to aggravation of amblyopia and even blindness.
So, If A Child Has Amblyopia, What Should Parents Judge Based On?
1. Preliminary judgment of amblyopia mainly depends on whether the child has the following behaviors:
▶Put brighter or brightly colored items in front of your child to see if they can be keenly spotted by the child.
▶ Observe whether the child squints, tilts his head, or looks sideways when looking at things.
▶If the child is clumsy when walking, or even falls frequently, or can see objects but make contact mistakes when reaching out to touch them.
If any of the above situations occur, parents should take the baby to the hospital for examination in time!
2. Eye chart check
Parents can buy a standard eye chart, hang it in a brightly lit place at home, and let the child identify it at a distance of 5m.
Special reminder: When doing this vision test, be sure to cover one of the child's eyes, let the opposite eye test, and not let the child's eyes look together.
Regarding the diagnostic criteria for amblyopia in children, you can look at the following values:
- Children under the age of 3 have a visual acuity of less than 4.7 (0.5)
- 4-5-year-olds have a visual acuity of less than 4.8 (0.6)
- 6-7-year-old children's visual acuity is less than 0.7
- Children over the age of 7 have a visual acuity of less than 4.9 (0.8)
If the child's eyesight is lower than the above standard, parents must pay attention!
In addition, only babies after the age of 3 can use the vision checklist. Therefore, before the baby is three years old, it is recommended that parents take the baby to the hospital for a professional examination.
If the examination finds that the child has high hyperopia, astigmatism or esotropia, etc., also be vigilant, because these conditions can also easily develop into amblyopia!
How To Treat A Child With Amblyopia?
Scientific and standardized medical optometry is the premise
For example, refractive error amblyopia, or some strabismus cases, all need to change the adjustment or collection function through scientific optometry.
masking
This is the most common amblyopia treatment. If the child has normal eyes and amblyopia in the other eye, you can cover the eyes with good vision with an opaque eye patch, so that the eyes with amblyopia can see things and receive light stimulation for a long time, which will help improve vision. The premise is that the masking treatment must be carried out in accordance with the requirements of the doctor.
grating stimulation therapy
When children have amblyopia, they can wear corrective glasses, cover the good eyes, and then use colored pencils to draw on the glass plate according to the pattern, which is conducive to stimulating visual cells and improving vision.
needle threading practice
When a child has amblyopia, let the child wear corrective glasses first, and then let the child practice needle or bead threading with red thread, which will help improve vision.
visual exercise
Helps stimulate the amblyopic eye and promote its return to normal visual function.
No matter which method it is, the most important thing is to detect it as soon as possible and treat it as soon as possible. It is best to treat amblyopia before the age of 8. At this time, the child is in the stage of visual development, and the visual function has not yet developed, so the effect of the intervention will be better, and the probability of cure will be high. After the age of 12, the child's vision has been finalized, and the effect of treatment will be relatively poor.