According to various sources the person using the eye receives from 80 to 90% of information about the outside world. It is therefore important to have a healthy vision as long as possible. How to detect eye disease at the child?
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How are your eyes?
Up to 5 years of a child, the basic visual functions: symmetry of the eye, visual acuity and surround vision. Fully form the eyes and vision to 10 years.When news of the child to an ophthalmologist?
The best cure for the disease - its prevention. It is therefore important to regularly check the child vision. For the first time it is done in 6 months, then in 1 year. Baby dripping special eye drops and examine them. Then examination is carried out before a garden and a school. This should be done necessarily, because parents often can not detect eye disease at an early stage when treatment is most effective.
Disturbing "bells"
Be sure to show the child to an ophthalmologist, if you notice this behavior for them:
- 1-5 years - the child constantly rubs his eyes, he often sees things close, and he often pops barley;
- 5-7 years - the child complains that sees everything in a fog or in his double vision, eye often bake and become red, he having headaches, the child does not distinguish between signs of shops close read book, Low leans when he writes or draws;
- 7-10 years - child complains of poor vision may fall behind in their studies, at this age it is impossible to ignore the complaint, because the vision will get worse without treatment because of the high loads on the eye school.
And it can grow?
There are no specialists who advise mothers to postpone the treatment of the eye, they say a child will outgrow. Ophthalmologists insist prescribe treatment. The child not only can not develop eye disease, and the problem is aggravated.
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