What causes infant strabismus

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Strabismus is the eye position is not correct, due to different causes, divided into paralytic strabismus and concomitant strabismus two categories, according to the direction of eye position deviation is divided into esotropia, exotropia, up tilt, down tilt and rare rotary strabismus. Now I'm going to talk about the causes of children's strabismus. If you want to know, you can come in and have a look.

What causes infant strabismus

First: the problem of eyeball nerve control when the central nervous system control problems, often will cause vision can not be adjusted, so the eye will have problems, resulting in a variety of strabismus problems, affect vision.

Second: this kind of strabismus caused by congenital reasons is mostly caused by the influence of congenital extraocular muscle development. It is because parents have such a situation. Therefore, if parents have strabismus, they should be cautious early and communicate with experts closely during pregnancy.

Third: the development is not perfect, because the development of binocular single vision function in childhood is not perfect, can not coordinate the extraocular muscles well, promote the attack of strabismus. People's single vision function is gradually developed after birth. They need to repeatedly accept the influence of external objects, and gradually develop and mature.

matters needing attention

1. Corneal reflection method is very simple. Parents only need to have a flashlight or camera in their hands. When checking, just turn on the flashlight or camera and let the child see the light source. Judge the child's eye position according to the light spot in the child's eyes. In normal eye position, the corneal reflection points of both eyes were in the center of the pupil. In esotropia, the left corneal reflection point is outside the pupil. In exotropia, the left corneal reflection spot is in the inner side of the pupil. There is a special kind of strabismus that can cause patients to look askew. This phenomenon is called torticollis, and the most common one is ophthalmic torticollis. And to identify whether it is ocular torticollis is also very simple, as long as the child's eye is covered, the child's torticollis disappeared, highly suspected of ocular torticollis, at this time should take the child to ophthalmology.