Strabismus in the child: how to treat and how to help?

Age of three to five years is considered the most dangerous because it may appear strabismus in the child. Any child begins to see the surrounding world with both eyes not at once. This is a very gradual and lengthy process.

All small children have farsightedness. As the baby grows, the eyeball increases. If a newborn child has the main image behind the retina of the eye, then at the older age the place of the optical focus shifts to the eye-fund area. But sometimes the level of farsightedness in children continues to remain unchanged. They begin to make an effort to look well at everything that surrounds them. This greatly strains the eyes, and there is a strabismus in the child. But this is a kind of convergent strabismus - one eye of the child looks constantly mowing in relation to his nose.

The presence of high temperature for a long time, the transfer of physical or psychological trauma, too, are considered the causes of the appearance of such a violation, as a squint in the child.

There is also a divergent view of strabismus, but it is rare. In the case of convergent strabismus, the visual acuity on that eye, which is often mown, decreases sharply, because only the image that it sees with this eye is transmitted to the child's brain.

Strabismus in a child, especially if it occurs at an early age, will never pass by itself. It is noted that there are a little more than fifteen types of strabismus in children, and each of them chooses his own method of treatment. The intake of any vitamins (and especially all preparations containing blueberries) will not bring any results. They are not used at all in medicine for children.

The visual system of the child is seriously disturbed by strabismus. This is due to a strong decrease in visual acuity, a violation of the close connection between the right and left eye. In order to avoid serious disorders and complications, and also to speed up the recovery process, strabismus treatment should be started as soon as possible. Due to the constant development of the child's visual system, the effectiveness of all methods used will be much higher in young children.

If the child has a problem with the eyes, then it is necessary to solve it before he goes to school. At an older age, much more time will be needed to ensure that all vision functions are improved, in addition, it is not always possible to completely restore them.

Treatment of strabismus in children is complex. Most often the attending physician appoints glasses to the child. Sometimes this solution allows you to correct the squint in the child. But usually you can not do without the hardware method of treatment. To get rid of strabismus, do not stop with simple treatment, because an unstable result can be achieved, with the possibility of further strabismus. In this case, the solution can be one that will help to eliminate strabismus in children: surgery. But you always need to take into account the result of the operation - it can lead to an external cessation of strabismus, but the effect on intensifying the visual acuity after it is not always achieved.