The squint refers to a lack of parallelism between the two eyes to be taken in charge early in childhood with an orthotic rehabilitation. Approximately 2-3% of children with strabismus, as many girls as boys.
When to seek strabismus?
The strabismus is most common in early childhood. Coordination of movements of eyes is gradually putting in place, it is recommended to check if it detects a fault in the eyes that persists beyond two months.
While one should not rush at birth, conversely, do not wait too long because the strabismus is not only a disfigurement and psychological. Indeed, a strabismus uncorrected results in two thirds of the cases to lower visual importance of the eye concerned are amblyopia.
Explanations - At birth, the retinal images transmitted by the optic nerves are printed on a brain untouched. Only force to deal with visual information that the brain learns to recognize and transcribe the shapes, volumes, colors. It is the brain's responsibility to deal with three dimensions it restores by superimposing the images slightly different from that of the two eyes (binocular vision in relief). But in case of strabismus, the brain ends up neglecting one of the two images as unstable or too difficult to superimpose on the other. Over time, the eye "abandoned" its efforts to movements and accommodation are not considered since they are no longer needed. The capital of this visual eye is then gradually lost.
It is therefore critical to intervene early enough. In addition, more support is early; it will be more effective and accepted by the child psychologically.
Not easy to detect very early
Some strabismus is so low that they are extremely difficult to detect. It's annoying because it delays treatment while squinting generally tends to evolve in the direction of worsening. Should be consulted as soon as two months at the least suspicion of a through parallelism of the eyes, and even more so in the presence of family history of strabismus. Indeed, in 50 to 80% of cases, there are cases of strabismus in the family. Otherwise, the squint occurs unexpectedly under certain conditions as an episode of illness, high fever, a fall.
Treatment of squint
The treatment of strabismus is based on rehabilitation in Orthoptist. It takes place in two stages: the wandering eyes are forced to work and to evolve along with its neighbor. For this, eye specialists resort to wearing glasses, occlusion of the right eye at the completion of written exercises (filling grid labyrinth). The program can last for months before getting a correction.
Still, sometimes it is still inadequate in some subjects. It is then necessary to turn to the squint surgery by acting on the muscles coulometer which reduces the deviation between the two eyes.
Squint in adults
A squint occurs late in adulthood is rare. It is more often attributed to a defect in childhood neglect or aggravated as a result of ill-treatment follow-up or recurrence after surgery. But in adults, rehabilitation is ineffective. The only solution is the intervention surgery. The eyes will be realigned, corrected and aesthetics, but binocular vision will not be recovered.
When to seek strabismus?
The strabismus is most common in early childhood. Coordination of movements of eyes is gradually putting in place, it is recommended to check if it detects a fault in the eyes that persists beyond two months.
While one should not rush at birth, conversely, do not wait too long because the strabismus is not only a disfigurement and psychological. Indeed, a strabismus uncorrected results in two thirds of the cases to lower visual importance of the eye concerned are amblyopia.
Explanations - At birth, the retinal images transmitted by the optic nerves are printed on a brain untouched. Only force to deal with visual information that the brain learns to recognize and transcribe the shapes, volumes, colors. It is the brain's responsibility to deal with three dimensions it restores by superimposing the images slightly different from that of the two eyes (binocular vision in relief). But in case of strabismus, the brain ends up neglecting one of the two images as unstable or too difficult to superimpose on the other. Over time, the eye "abandoned" its efforts to movements and accommodation are not considered since they are no longer needed. The capital of this visual eye is then gradually lost.
It is therefore critical to intervene early enough. In addition, more support is early; it will be more effective and accepted by the child psychologically.
Not easy to detect very early
Some strabismus is so low that they are extremely difficult to detect. It's annoying because it delays treatment while squinting generally tends to evolve in the direction of worsening. Should be consulted as soon as two months at the least suspicion of a through parallelism of the eyes, and even more so in the presence of family history of strabismus. Indeed, in 50 to 80% of cases, there are cases of strabismus in the family. Otherwise, the squint occurs unexpectedly under certain conditions as an episode of illness, high fever, a fall.
Treatment of squint
The treatment of strabismus is based on rehabilitation in Orthoptist. It takes place in two stages: the wandering eyes are forced to work and to evolve along with its neighbor. For this, eye specialists resort to wearing glasses, occlusion of the right eye at the completion of written exercises (filling grid labyrinth). The program can last for months before getting a correction.
Still, sometimes it is still inadequate in some subjects. It is then necessary to turn to the squint surgery by acting on the muscles coulometer which reduces the deviation between the two eyes.
Squint in adults
A squint occurs late in adulthood is rare. It is more often attributed to a defect in childhood neglect or aggravated as a result of ill-treatment follow-up or recurrence after surgery. But in adults, rehabilitation is ineffective. The only solution is the intervention surgery. The eyes will be realigned, corrected and aesthetics, but binocular vision will not be recovered.
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