How to effectively treat strabismus in children

Treatment of strabismus in children should be carried out before the age of six, because mastering the best treatment time can achieve better results. This is mainly because vision has been completed after the age of six, so the effect of any treatment at this time will not be obvious.

1. Generally speaking, vision is fully developed before the age of 6. Parents should grasp the timing of treatment to avoid letting their children become glasses addicts too early.

2. The vision and binocular vision of infants develop rapidly after birth. If affected or hindered by some factors during the development period, the development of vision of infants may be hindered. If it can be discovered and treated early, the child can "see clearly" the beautiful new world.

3. Regarding the development process of vision, doctors say that before the age of 1, the vision develops to 0.2; at the age of 2, the vision develops to 0.4; at the age of 3, the vision is 0.6; at the age of 4, the vision is 0.8; at the age of 5, the vision develops to 1.0; and at the age of 6, the vision develops to 1.2.

4. From this point of view, the development of vision is completed at the age of 6, so young children should see an ophthalmologist at least once before the age of 6 to find out if they have any visual impairment or correct it. Otherwise, if poor eyesight is discovered after the age of 6, the correction effect is often half the effort with twice the results, and it may not be able to recover to above 1.0.

5. Strabismus refers to the misalignment of the visual axes of the two eyes, which may be biased inward, outward, upward or downward. A normal person's two eyes should see things straight and parallel. When looking at an object, the image of the object falls on the fovea of ​​the retina of both eyes respectively. Then, through the brain's image fusion ability, the images seen by the two eyes are combined into one. Because of the misaligned eyes of strabismus patients, when they focus on an object, the image of the object falls on the fovea of ​​the retina in the normal eye, but outside the fovea in the strabismus eye. This causes double vision. The image of one eye is suppressed, and the single vision function and stereoscopic sense of both eyes are lost. Some may also suffer from poor visual development and cause amblyopia. Therefore, strabismus is not only an aesthetic problem, but more importantly, if not treated in time, it will often cause irreparable visual dysfunction and amblyopia.