How to correct crossed eyes in children

Cross-eyed is also called cross-eyed, and is medically known as esotropia. Generally, esotropia can cause children to overuse their eyes, and may even cause a decrease in vision, so proper conditioning and treatment must be given in normal times. Generally, you must pay attention to this condition. This condition can be treated through surgical or non-surgical therapies or physical treatments, and it should also be judged based on the patient's age.

"Cross-eyed" is what people often call "cross-eyed", which is medically known as "esotropia".

Strabismus is manifested as one eye looking forward at an object while the other eye turns inward toward the nose, or when both eyes look at an object, both eyes turn inward. The former is divided into co-rotational esotropia and paralytic esotropia, and the latter is fixed esotropia. In terms of visual function damage, most children with strabismus have poor vision in their strabismus eye, which can easily lead to strabismic amblyopia. Even if the vision of the strabismus eye is normal, they can only use one eye to see objects, and their field of vision is not as wide as that of normal people.

What should I do if my child has an eye injury? The treatment methods vary depending on the type of eye injury and can generally be divided into surgical and non-surgical treatments.

1. Surgical treatment

The surgical method is to adjust the strength of the external eye muscles and the position of their attachment points to restore the eye position to normal. Congenital esotropia and strabismus usually require surgical treatment. Non-accommodative and large strabismus also usually needs to be corrected by surgery.

2. Non-surgical treatment

Not all strabismus requires surgical treatment. If it is accommodative esotropia, it can be corrected by wearing appropriate distance glasses or bifocals. If there is moderate or high refractive error, glasses are often needed for correction. In addition, axial correction training can be used to help restore binocular single vision and increase image fusion ability. For example, training with a visual axis correction training machine, or wearing prism lenses, etc. If there is also amblyopia, amblyopia training is also an indispensable treatment.

Regardless of the treatment method chosen, strabismus must be treated seriously because from an appearance point of view, strabismus affects the appearance and can easily cause adults to have an inferiority complex, affecting their work and social life. Children with strabismus are often given nicknames, which casts a shadow on the children's psychological development, causing them to become withdrawn, inferior and abnormal.