The treatment of strabismus is a lot of eye diseases that any normal person is exposed to, for reasons and without reasons, and not only the eye, any part of the body is exposed to any ailment, even if its origin is genetic.
What is squint?
Amblyopia is the failure of both eyes to meet at one focal point. This happens when looking at a single point by looking forward or to any side.
Strabismus symptoms:
The symptoms of strabismus appear to those around the patient in that the eye directions are inconsistent, as for the patient with strabismus, the symptoms are completely different Part of what the patient feels while looking and seeing can be shown as follows:
-Double vision, vision is not pure, but double vision, whether looking forward or from any direction.
-The problem of lazy eye, also called amblyopia, and this laziness is caused by not using one of the eyes for a long time
-Inability to stare and severe headaches in some cases as a result of muscle stress for the eye muscle to correctly assemble the images.
Causes of squint:
There are many causes of strabismus in the eye, and the most important of them can be mentioned as follows:
-Down syndrome, affects people since childhood and thus also affects the eyes.
-Double vision in one eye, and elderly people can also develop squint as a result of weakness in one of the eyes.
-Brain tumors usually affect children.
-Hydrocephalus, a congenital disease that is born with the child due to -increased brain fluid.
Strabismus treatment:
The treatment of any disease requires two important things
First: the diagnosis of strabismus
The diagnosis in the case of strabismus comes by the specialist doctor, who diagnoses the type and degree of strabismus in the eye
By conducting a comprehensive examination in children, and as for adults, the examination is comprehensive even with regard to the fundus of the eye.
Second: the methods of treatment of strabismus
There is no way to prevent strabismus, most of the time it is born with humans, and the infection of adults with it is not excluded
There are many ways to treat strabismus, whether by normal methods or surgical operations
Or even by injecting special substances that help treat a problem around the eye, as follows:
-Treatment with eyeglasses.
-Its main goal is to treat and correct farsightedness through custom eyeglasses.
Surgical treatment.
Surgery is performed in the eye to treat strabismus for two reasons, the first is to try to weaken the eye muscle by returning it beyond the eyeball so that it does not resist pulling, and the second is to restrict the eye muscle to increase its ability to pull and pull, also the method of treatment by silicone injections is usually used to treat cases Mini amblyopia.