Given that the vision system is growing in childhood, children may encounter eye problems such as exercise to genetic eye diseases. Although some vision disorders and eye diseases in your child’s vision may be quite obvious, others are not very clear and are characterized by a number of warning symptoms. While knowing and observing each of these symptoms, you need to set up an appointment with a pediatric child’s optometrist to determine your child’s eyesight. Dr. Enayat Asoosh is a specialized doctor in the field who always adopts the best way to examine eye health and, in addition to providing clinical advice on eye health, prescribes the best type of glasses or contact lenses to the patient.
Given that healthy vision is very important for child education and development and timely diagnosis of eye diseases prevents serious and blind complications, therefore, for parents with children under 6 years of age who are able to diagnose vision problems and express it to. There are not families, there are a number of behavioral symptoms in children that parents should pay special attention to the change of behavioral symptoms of their children, which are a sign of vision problems, despite regular monitoring of neonatal eye health. In addition to highlighting the weak causes of children’s eyes, we intend to examine the poor symptoms of eye and eye diseases in children.
The most important causes and causes of weakening children’s eyes
Since eye health has a significant impact on learning, academic success, and healthy development for children, it can be prevented by the weak causes of children’s eyes and taking some necessary care. The most important causes of weakening children’s eyes are briefly included:
1. Excessive use of digital tools: Children are less likely to blink because of their excitement and accuracy when watching TV, cell phones and computers, and this causes eye fatigue and weakening vision, headache, eye pain, burning and burning. Dry eyes. As a parent to prevent this problem, despite control of the screen view, you should encourage your child to regularly use electronic equipment and it is best to do so in outdoors. Slow to reduce the risk of developing it.
2. Inadequate Diet and Lack of Sleep: Proper nutrition that contains a variety of vitamins, including vitamins A, C, D, etc., play an important role in health and protection of the eyes and can be poor eye, night blindness, retinal bleeding. Prevent. Good and enough night sleep is also essential and gives your eyes a rest time.
3. Non -monitoring and regular eye checks: Regular examination and check -up at an early age can be more important. Regular eye checking allows you to get acquainted with your baby’s eyes and can prevent the progression of eye diseases by timely diagnosis or growing changes. For example, increasing myopia with periodic checks is well recognizable, and prescribing lenses for this treatment helps to reduce myopia progression. Do your baby’s first comprehensive eye examination between 6 and 12 months, and then have regular examinations as your optometrist recommendation.
What are the warning signs of poor eyesight and eye diseases in children?
Since children are not always able to express vision problems, it is a bit difficult for parents to diagnose the presence or absence of eye disease, but don’t worry, there are several signs and symptoms that indicate the presence of eye problems in children, and by observing a number of these signs and symptoms that children express in the form of specific behaviors or complaints, you can be informed in time about the occurrence of an eye disease and take your child to a specialist for treatment.
1. Looking at TV or Book Pictures with a very close distance: If your child wants to sit close to TV when watching a cartoon or when you read and look at the images of the book, they are very close to their face, these behaviors may be Indicate that your child is close and difficult to see away. If this happens in your baby, it should be examined by an ipometist.
2. Continuous and repeated rubbing of the eyes: It is true that most of the time the child tries to rub his or her eyes because of the fatigue, discomfort or itching of his eyes, but if the eye rubbing is constantly, especially when playing and focusing on something. The symptom is a type of eye disease in the child. Eye rubbing, usually caused by factors such as dry eye, eyelid infection, allergies, refractive defects, or foreign body, is highly risk for corneal health and can cause corneal hole if continuous repetition.
3. Baby’s high sensitivity to light: Children who are sensitive to light and, when placed under sunlight or high -light environments, immediately cling to one or both of their eyes or tear, these children may develop. Visual problems such as eye deflection, dry eye, intra -eye inflammation, surface eye infections, etc. If you find this symptom, you should take an optometrist examination in your child, because the lack of timely diagnosis of each of these Eye diseases will pose serious risks for our baby.
4. Unusual rotation of the head: When the child has problems with problems such as: deviation or eye disorders in seeing with an eye, he or she is forced to be unusual to bend his head forward or back to see or rotate to see good to see. Focus on something. These important signs of the presence of eye diseases and the visual problems of children, if repeated at an early age, should be taken to the ophthalmologist as soon as possible.
5. Collection of eye eyelids or frown to see clear: When a child’s poor eye is due to eye diseases such as astigmatism, eye deflection and closeness, the child has to collect the eyelids in the distance.
6. Child complaints about continuous headaches that are increasing with eye -catching work: Since most eye problems, including poor eye, eye aberration, inflammation and eye infections are often associated with symptoms such as headaches, this is a good symptom. Parents are aware of their child’s visual problems faster, and with rapid and timely treatment, in addition to improving their vision, they can prevent the progression of their disease.
7. Baby eyes tremors and continuous and involuntary movements that are performed: One of the symptoms that indicates a child’s low vision and should be referred to an ophthalmologist as soon as possible, tremors or non -movements. The voluntary of the child’s eyes is in various directions that cause the child’s eyes to never be constant and move permanently. This symptom at birth can be a serious alert of vision and brain health.
8. Chronic Eye Redness: If your baby has chronic redness, or is constantly complaining about itching or pain, such chronic symptoms are not normal and it is best to refer to an optometrist to treat it.
9. Education due to the low focus of the child and his unwillingness to do school work: Some eye and vision problems can be noted the lack of focus and interest in the child’s homework, which by creating reading and writing problems, negative impacts. Will leave them in learning. Most of the children at school have a focus or focus on motor and vision skills that will help a great deal.
Summary:
Prevention of eye problems in children is very important to maintain their eye health and overall health. Although some eye diseases may be inevitable, there are several preventive measures that can reduce the risk and severity of eye problems in children, which we have mentioned in this article. Since some vision problems among children can cause blindness, but some of these are such as refractive defects, dipping, nytagmus and amblyopia, which, if diagnosed in a timely manner, can be easily diagnosed by medical glasses, vision therapy or exercise and exercises. Visual vision is treatable. If you are worried about your children’s eyes, it is best to make an appointment with our Optometrist so that by evaluating your child’s eyesight and eye health, you can identify the symptoms of his or her eye problems earlier.
