Coming straight from the desk of Dr Ramesh Kekunnaya, Head of the Child Sight Institute, Consultant, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Strabismus & Neuro-ophthalmology, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad.
As caregivers, haven’t we all at some point wondered while the child is not interested in a certain activity or is quite fidgety. But how often do we consider monitoring the child to understand the problem which they may have difficulty expressing. Compared to all the other senses, vision is very critical for the overall development of a child and good vision gives proper inputs to the brain. Any interruption in the vision in the formative years not only impairs vision but also affects the brain and results in overall delay in the development milestones.
A child’s eye is not merely a smaller version of an adult eye, and the causes of childhood blindness/visual impairment differ from adult blindness. Sometimes children are unable to express the visual problems and hence it is essential to have eye screening for all children to identify the ones with a problem at an early stage for effective treatment.
Children most often cannot verbalise the issues they are suffering from except when the condition is painful. Therefore, parents play a crucial role in identifying any eye condition, which can affect their kids. Some of the most common symptoms are listed below:
LACK OF SOCIAL SMILE OR EYE TO EYE CONTACT
Typically eye to eye contact should develop within 2-3 months and social smile at 5 months of age. During this period if the child has severe visual impairment due to eye or brain conditions, the above milestones are not achieved. Bilateral cataract, corneal opacity, retinal dystrophy, delayed visual maturation; nystagmus (rapid to and fro eye movements) and cerebral visual impairment, glaucoma and sequelae of rop are amongst the few important causes for severe visual impairment in infants.
CLOSE WORKING DISTANCE WHEN READING OR WRITING OR INABILITY TO WATCH TV OR LOOK AT THE BLACKBOARD
This story is from the January - February 2017 edition of VisionPlus (India).
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