What causes amblyopia in children?

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Children's amblyopia refers to children's binocular visual acuity less than 1.0. Nowadays, children's amblyopia has become a serious disease endangering children's eye health. If we ignore the weakness of children and let them develop, children are prone to high myopia, which will cause irreversible harm to children. In addition, if children do not pay attention to amblyopia, it is easy to induce blindness when they grow up and even in old age, resulting in blindness. Now, I'd like to introduce several factors of amblyopia in children.

What causes amblyopia in children?

1. Congenital amblyopia: a major cause of amblyopia in children is genetic influence. Most children are born with amblyopia gene, which leads to amblyopia. In these cases, parents may not be amblyopia patients, but both parents carry amblyopia gene. In the next generation, amblyopia gene is dominant. In this case, the child born will be amblyopia patients.

2. Strabismus amblyopia: strabismus amblyopia is due to people's eyes will have axis parallel, and once diagnosed as strabismus amblyopia, then the axis of vision of small patients is not parallel, eye arrangement of macular center gaze is concave, in this case, it causes strabismus amblyopia. In this case, children often see things vaguely or even double, they will be very uncomfortable. According to statistics, more than half of the children are due to strabismus, did not get useful treatment, resulting in amblyopia attack.

3. Ametropic amblyopia: one of the factors of amblyopia in children may also be ametropic amblyopia. Children with phototactic amblyopia have more or less significant hyperopia, myopia or astigmatism. And even if you wear eyes, but the vision loss is still very significant. Two thirds of children's amblyopia is caused by hyperopia.

matters needing attention

Children's amblyopia can't be ignored because they are still young. If they can't be corrected in time, it is very likely that amblyopia will follow them for a lifetime. Therefore, children's amblyopia must not be underestimated. So how to prevent children's amblyopia? First of all, it is necessary to check the eyes regularly. As the saying goes, early detection and early treatment. Generally speaking, parents are advised to take their children for ophthalmic examination every year and a half.