What should I do if my child has strabismus?

Some babies are born with strabismus, while others are caused by adverse environmental influences, which have many adverse effects on the baby's study and life. In this case, you can use glasses to correct it. If the effect is not very good, you can choose strabismus correction surgery, which is quite effective.

1. What should I do if my child has strabismus?

According to ophthalmologists, when it comes to treating strabismus in children, personalized treatment is mainly adopted according to the different types of strabismus. Methods that can be used include correction of refractive errors, treatment of amblyopia, training of binocular single vision function and eye position correction surgery.

In the early stages of strabismus treatment for children, you can choose to wear glasses. The correction method of fitting glasses is to use drugs to dilate the pupils for eye examination to obtain the correct refractive power, and then fit glasses medically to correct the child's refractive error and slowly correct the child's strabismus. After children with strabismus wear glasses, they should still go to the hospital for regular checkups, generally once every 1 to 2 months, to observe changes in strabismus and improvement in vision after wearing glasses so that the ophthalmologist can understand the treatment results at any time.

In addition, when fitting glasses to treat strabismus, one must go to a regular ophthalmology hospital for an eye test, because the glasses the patient wears are a measure to treat strabismus, which is equivalent to the medicine prescribed by the doctor to the patient. Wearing inappropriate glasses is like taking the wrong medicine, and the consequences can be disastrous.

2. Strabismus correction surgery to treat strabismus in children

There are many parents who hope that their children will recover their eye health as soon as possible or if glasses cannot correct strabismus, then strabismus surgery can be used. A new surgical incision method used in strabismus surgery. This method is performed under the eyelid, on the dome of the eye. The surgical incision is small, trauma to the eye tissue is minimized, blood vessels are avoided, and unnecessary trauma and bleeding are avoided. There is no need to remove stitches after surgery, and the patient has no discomfort on the second day after surgery, which greatly reduces postoperative reactions.

Ophthalmologists remind: Postoperative precautions must not be neglected and must be strictly followed. Optical treatment is required promptly after surgery. For children with partial accommodative esotropia, they should wear their original corrective glasses after surgery and try not to use close-up vision to avoid recurrence of esotropia due to accommodation.