What are the early symptoms of cataracts in infants?

I believe that when a new life appears in a family, the whole family will feel excited and happy. Of course, everyone hopes that their baby can grow up healthy and smart, but contrary to expectations, some babies will develop symptoms of cataracts for various reasons, which makes their loved ones feel very painful. So what are the early symptoms of infant cataracts? Regarding this question, let me give you a detailed and specific answer in the following time.

1. Leukokoria: Adult cataract patients often seek medical treatment due to significant visual impairment, while infant cataract patients, especially those with unilateral cataract, generally have no symptoms, so diagnosis is often delayed. Only when white reflections appear in the pupil area, the so-called leukokoria, does it attract the attention of parents or doctors. Leukokoria is not unique to congenital cataracts and should be clinically differentiated from other diseases.

2. Nystagmus: Children with dense opaque cataracts in both eyes usually have nystagmus, which is mostly wandering and searching. This type of nystagmus often indicates extremely poor vision, which usually does not exceed 0.1.

3. Strabismus: Due to poor vision or unbalanced binocular vision, the formation of fusion mechanism is hindered, which can quickly cause eye deviation.

4. Photophobia: In some cases, light scattering caused by lens opacity may cause children to develop photophobia. This situation is more likely to occur in children with circumnuclear cataracts.

5. Other combined eye abnormalities: Congenital cataract combined with congenital microphthalmia is not uncommon in clinical practice. The presence of congenital microphthalmia has nothing to do with the type of cataract and is often combined with other developmental abnormalities of eye tissues, such as choroidal coloboma. The visual prognosis is extremely poor, and even surgery cannot obtain satisfactory visual results.

The symptoms of congenital cataracts in babies are as described above. I hope that they can help you and your baby so that they can grow up happily and healthily, have a healthy and wonderful childhood, and see this beautiful world.

The above paragraphs introduce us to the early symptoms of infantile cataracts in detail. I sincerely hope that my friends can read the above content carefully so that they can have a deeper understanding and cognition of these symptoms. Of course, I still want to say one more thing. Female friends must not do anything extreme during the preparation for pregnancy and pregnancy, as this can easily affect the normal development of the fetus.