Cloggers in children: symptoms, causes, treatment and prevention. Correction of strabismus without surgery

Cravisure is observed in 2 out of 100 children. You need to know why it arises, how to prevent it and how to cure it.

To see that the child has a strabismus, you do not need to go to the doctor. Another thing is that parents do not always know whether it is a disease, and if so, whether it can be cured and how to do it.

Why do children mow the eyes: reasons?

In medicine, strabismus is called strapism. Outwardly, this disease is expressed in the asymmetry of the location of cornea relative to the edges of the eyelids and corners of the eyes. At the same time, the parallelity of the visual axes is violated, both eyes cannot be simultaneously fixed on the subject.

This problem is observed in many children.

Cloggers happen:

• congenital
• acquired (often, at an early age, in children from 1 to 4 years)

Important: in infants and early childhood, the visual system of the baby is very fragile, it continues to form. At the same time, the load on it is enormous. Developing a child with the help of books, cards, puzzles, designers and, moreover, cartoons and a computer, parents should remember that the child’s eyes should not be overstrain or get tired

In addition to excessive loads on the eyes, the causes of stratism in children are:

• mechanical injuries of the eyes, skull, brain
• disorders of the nervous system
• general paralysis
• diseases and pathologies of the eye muscles
• inflammation and infections of blood vessels, eyes, brain
• not diagnosed or not compensated astigmatism, myopia, farsightedness, other visual impairment
• injuries received by the child during childbirth
• stress

Cravisor Symptoms

The vision of a healthy person is binocular. This means that both of his eyes see the subject at the same time, both send signals about it to the visual analyzer in the brain, where they are combined into one.

Thanks to this, a person sees an object in three dimensions. If the child has strabismus, the signal connection from both eyes does not occur: the nervous system excludes the one that is sent by a squinting eye.

Symptoms of strabismus in children are:

• the outwardly outward deviation of one eye
• eye fatigue
• headache
• dizziness

Important: contrary to the bike that the image of squinting people is doubled is not so. They see how healthy people, but only one eye

Types of stratism

The classification of stratism is quite complicated. Distinguish:

1. Vertical and horizontal strabismus. With a vertical eye, it deviates up or down to the eyelid. With horizontal - to the nose or temple. It is most common and divided into certain types, each of which should pay attention
2. Commonwealth and paralytic strabismus. Ametropy (violation of the refractive ability of a person’s eye) is most often the cause of friendly stratism, in which both eyes mow in turn. When the child tries to fix his eyes on a motionless object, one of his eyes deviates to the nose, temple, upper or lower eyelids. The angle of deviation in both eyes is approximately equal. The mobility of both eyes is preserved

Paralytic strabismus

The cause of this type of stratism is the pathology or damage to the oculomotor muscles, as well as the optic disease. Because of this, the mobility of the damaged eye is disturbed or completely absent. A healthy eye mows.

Convergent strabismus in children

With converging stratism (esotropy), one of the eyes deviates to the nose. Often he is a satellite of farsightedness.

Important: converging stratism can appear in a small child under 2 years old and after some time pass by itself

Exotropia

With diverging stratism (exotropy), one of the eyes deviates to the temple. Often he is a companion of myopia.

Important: along with the above causes of strabismus, the divergent can also be caused by fright

Which doctor to go to strabismus?

The strabismus is diagnosed and corrected by the ophthalmologist.

Important: there is no need to listen to those people who say that there is no need to treat strabismus in a child, they say, it will pass by itself. They are categorically wrong. They are also mistaken for those who believe that strapism is not treated, and it makes no sense to treat the child. Modern medicine makes it possible to put the visual system of the baby in order. Having discovered strabismus, a visit to an ophthalmologist does not need to be postponed

Having discovered strabismus in a visual preventive examination in a child, an ophthalmologist confirms the diagnosis, determining:

• visual acuity of the eye of the child
• mobility of his eyeballs
• the absence or presence of his organic or functional damage to the visual system

For this, the ophthalmologist applies hardware methods and conducts electrophysiological studies.

How to cure strabismus in children up to a year?

From birth to 4 months, the child is still weak, so he can mow with his eyes. Physiological stratism in the baby does not need treatment and, usually, pass by 5 months of life. If this does not happen, the eyes continue to mow, the baby is registered with an ophthalmologist.

Important: the sooner you start the correction of strabismus, the higher the chances of its success. If you cure strapism in a child up to a year, binocular vision will survive

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Correction of strabismus. Crash -eyed treatment programs

The program for the correction of strabismus in children is selected individually depending on:

• the reasons
• type of stratism
• degree of lowering
• degree of violation of the connection between the eyes and the brain
• muscle state

Treatment of stratism can be conservative and operational.

Conservative therapy is complex, entering it:

• determining the cause of the development of stratism
• determination of the type of stratism
• optical correction with glasses and special contact lenses
• pleoptic - shutdown from view of a healthy eye
• orthoptics - Corpushes correction using special devices
• measures for the development of binocular and stereoscopic vision
• measures to increase visual acuity

In what cases is a strabismus surgery?
According to medical statistics, 8 out of 10 children suffering from them need surgical treatment of strabismus.
Operation conducted a hiro-focalmologist. It is he who determines the methodology of surgical intervention, gives recommendations to the child and his parents.

Important: modern methods of surgical treatment of strapism allow you to minimally injure the eyeball, maintain the integrity of the neuromusive bundle. They make them under general mild anesthesia, older children - under local. This is radio wave and laser surgery

Prevention of strabismus

The prevention of strabismus needs to be carried out already with a baby of the first month of life:

1. Its crib must be put so that adults approach it from different sides
2. Mobile and toys should hang over the bed at a distance of at least 60 cm
3. Both eyes of the child should be loaded the same (the child should lie on different barrels)

At an older age, prevention is as follows:

1. A child should watch TV or be at a computer, starting from 3 years, no more than 2 hours a day
2. You can’t watch TV lying or over your head
3. The font in children's books should be large
4. The child should not be subjected to stress
5. It is necessary to strengthen the child's immunity

Important: in no case should you forget about preventive visits to the optometrist

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