Thursday, February 23, 2012

Strabismus in infants


In younger children, up to 6 or 8 months, inability to coordinate exactly the movements of both eyes while fixing some object, leads to the appearance of a divergent motion may suggest the existence of strabismus. If this difference persists after this period, we must think seriously about the possibility of a squint. It is therefore necessary to go to the optometrist to establish an adequate therapy.

In fact, the risk posed by the strabismus is due to the lack of convergence of the eyeballs prevents correct image fusion, that makes objects look "double" (double vision).


The child reacts by suppressing ghosting and using only the one that gives the eye normally aligned. The persistence of this phenomenon leads, ultimately, not to use the visual eye amblyopia unused. This divergence can be avoided only if corrected in time, covering the normal eye to force the other to perform its function.

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