What to do if your two-year-old baby has strabismus

What to do if your two-year-old baby has strabismus

When a two-year-old baby has strabismus, parents are more worried. After all, strabismus will affect the child's appearance. During this period, strabismus can be corrected through certain methods. Take the child to the hospital for examination in time and seize the best treatment time. Generally speaking, the correction effect is good. Let's take a look at what to do if a two-year-old baby has strabismus?

What to do if your two-year-old baby has strabismus

1. Do not frequently look at objects in the same direction at a close distance. Try to prevent your child from looking at objects at a close distance or in the same direction. If you find that your child has strabismus at 4 months old, you can try the following simple methods to adjust it: If there is esotropia, parents can talk to the child at a farther distance, or hang some colorful toys within the normal vision range a little further away, and let the child look at more moving things; if there is exotropia, you can often switch the line of sight between adults and children, let the child change the direction of sleeping, or let the child first look at a target (object), and then move the target from far to near until the tip of the nose, and practice repeatedly to help strengthen the convergence of the two eyes.

Therefore, babies should not stay in the cradle for too long. Parents should pick up their babies from time to time and walk them around to make them curious about the things around them, thereby increasing the movement of the eyeballs, enhancing the coordination of the eye muscles and nerves, and avoiding strabismus.

2. Change the baby's sleeping position frequently. Change the baby's sleeping position frequently, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right. This can change the direction of light projection frequently, so that the baby's eyes will not always stay on one side, thus avoiding strabismus.

3. Pay attention to daily eye care. Pay more attention to your child’s movements and learning situation, such as rubbing eyes, abnormal posture, and poor academic performance. Get regular eye exams. Children generally need regular checkups starting at the age of three. If you use your eyes for a long time, you need to have proper rest time.

4. Eat a balanced diet.

Eat more foods that are good for your eyes. Such as vitamins, and calcium-containing foods such as shrimp, kelp, soybeans, vegetables, milk, peanuts, tangerines, oranges and egg yolks. Experts also recommend eating more yellow-green fruits, especially. These fruits contain lutein and zeaxanthin. Once these two pigments enter the body, they accumulate in the light-sensitive tissues at the back of the eyes, which protect the eyes by filtering blue light.

Causes of strabismus in children

1. Children with underdeveloped visual function, especially infants and young children, have incomplete binocular single vision function and cannot coordinate the extraocular muscles well. Any unstable factors can cause strabismus. Human's monocular vision function is gradually developed after birth. Just like the visual function, this function is established by repeatedly receiving stimulation from clear external images, and gradually develops and matures. Infants only have gross fusion image 2 months after birth, and the establishment of precise fusion image function will continue until after 5 years old. Stereoscopic vision is established at the latest, and it is close to that of adults at 6 to 7 years old. Therefore, the period before the age of 5 when binocular single vision function is not yet perfect is a high incidence period of strabismus in children.

2. Factors related to the eyeball: Children have small eyeballs and short eye axes, and most of them are farsighted. Also, because children's cornea and lens have strong refractive power and ciliary muscle contraction force, they have strong accommodation power. Such children need more accommodation power to see objects clearly. At the same time, their eyes turn inward forcefully, resulting in excessive convergence, which can easily cause esotropia, a type of esotropia called accommodative esotropia.

3. Bad habits: Bad eye habits also have an impact on strabismus. For example, babies lie in bed for a long time, most of the time the bed is against the wall, and adults mostly look in the same direction when feeding or talking to the babies. In this way, the children will habitually look in one direction and eventually develop exotropia. Before young children learn to walk, parents often hold them to their chests, and adults and children often stare at each other at close range; when children lie in bed, parents will hand them some toys and let them play with them in front of their chests. In this way, the distance between the child's eyes and the object is extremely close, and over time, intermittent esotropia is likely to occur.