Amblyopia treatment time

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Amblyopia in children is a common eye disease in children, and the cure is promising. But often because of the lack of understanding of children's amblyopia, the diagnosis is too late or the treatment time is not good, delay the treatment, missed the treatment opportunity, and regret for life. The biggest harm of amblyopia is that the visual cells and nerves of patients with amblyopia can't be stimulated by external objects for a long time, and their vision is lower than 0.8. If they are not treated in time, their vision will be permanently low, resulting in lifelong visual disability. Amblyopia treatment time to tell you.

Amblyopia treatment time

First, we know that good eyesight is not acquired by nature. When a baby is born, its eyesight is less than 1% of that of human beings. With the continuous growth of age, binocular vision cells continue to develop and improve. Within 5 years old is an important period of visual function development, visual development has continued to 6-8 years old, such as this period for some reason caused by binocular visual obstacles, visual cells can not get normal stimulation, visual function stays at a low level, binocular vision is low, can not be corrected, formed binocular amblyopia; if only one eye can be used, over time repeatedly stimulate the eye vision When the other eye is not able to gaze, it develops slowly and forms monocular amblyopia.

Second: amblyopia is a kind of visual retardation, disorder, often accompanied by strabismus, high refractive error. It's a kind of eye disease that can't be corrected to normal vision. Ametropia before 6 years old often causes amblyopia. The strabismus caused by congenital and acquired factors in this period is the direct cause of amblyopia. But it is precisely at this time that children's vision is developing, and everything has a chance to change. Preschool is the golden stage of amblyopia treatment. If it can be found at the age of four or five and treated correctly in time, it is very hopeful to be cured.

Third: the treatment of amblyopia in children, different causes to use different methods, different periods also need to use different methods. There are high requirements for medical institutions and parents of children. Professional ophthalmologists are required to develop amblyopia treatment programs in accordance with their own characteristics. Parents are required to adhere to the doctor's requirements, adhere to the treatment of children's amblyopia, regular review, not give up halfway. Even if the child's vision has returned to normal, but also according to the doctor's requirements, adhere to consolidation treatment for a period of time.

matters needing attention

Amblyopia is a stubborn disease, the treatment process takes a relatively long time, some need a few months, sometimes need two or three years, persistent treatment is very important. Moreover, the treatment time of amblyopia in children is very limited. The older the children are, the more difficult it is to correct. If the treatment starts around 3-5 years old, most of them can be cured or basically recovered. If the treatment starts later than 12 years old, the curative effect is very poor or even invalid. First, parents should pay attention not to think that children's inability to see clearly is myopia, but also amblyopia; second, they should pay attention to that amblyopia is not good for themselves, so they should find and treat it early.