When is the best time to treat strabismus in children?

When a child has strabismus, parents should pay attention to it, because only if the child's strabismus is discovered and treated as early as possible, the effect can be better. The following are some treatment issues for children's strabismus.

1. For children, strabismus will not only affect their lives and cause them to be laughed at, leading to psychological problems, but will also cause vision damage and threaten the development of bones throughout the body. Therefore, parents must pay attention to children's strabismus and not endanger their children's lives due to carelessness. 2. Since the harm of strabismus is a long-term gradual process, children's strabismus will not be greatly affected in their life and study at the beginning, so many parents of children with strabismus think that having strabismus will make their appearance ugly, and all problems will be solved by having cosmetic surgery when they grow up. In fact, this is a very wrong approach. Now, experts from Shanghai New Vision Eye Hospital will take us to understand when is the best time to treat strabismus.

3. Experts emphasize: "This view is very harmful. In addition to correcting the eye position and improving the appearance, the more important treatment for strabismus is functional treatment, including amblyopia treatment and the restoration of normal binocular vision function." During childhood, the visual system is in a vigorous stage of growth and development and has plasticity. The younger the age, the greater the plasticity, and the better the treatment effect. It is difficult to restore the normal function of the strabismus after the development period ends, and the only way to achieve improvement in appearance is to perform corrective surgery alone. Special reminder: Most strabismus patients need correction through surgery. The best age for strabismus surgery is 3-7 years old. The surgical age for some special congenital strabismus should be before 1-2 years old. Parents are advised to seize the golden period for strabismus treatment.

4. The earlier a child's strabismus is treated, the better. The younger the child is, the greater the plasticity and the greater the possibility of recovery of eye function. Early treatment can make children with strabismus have more complete functions like normal children. However, if not treated in the early stages, the effectiveness of treatment will significantly decrease as children age. Many children regret delaying treatment for the rest of their lives.