Paediatric Ophthalmology Treatment

Childhood eye problems are common. Eyes that ‘wander’, vision problems, eye infections, and eye injuries are all common among children. You can help protect your child’s eyesight by watching out for warning signs and taking your child to a doctor at the first sign of a problem.
Nonsurgical management of squint
Optical management involves :
To check refraction and prescribing correct spectacle power . this is to be checked at regular intervals
Eye exercises which your ophthalmologist may suggest
Treatment for amblyopia may be suggested.
Surgical management of squint:
Surgical management of squint
If other treatments are unsuccessful, surgery may be needed to correct a squint.
Surgery can be used to:
improve the alignment of the eyes (and therefore their appearance)
help the eyes work together
Surgery involves moving the muscles attached to the outside of the eye to a new position. It may be necessary to operate on both eyes to balance them, even if the squint is only in one eye.
There are six different muscles attached to each eyeball and they tend to work in pairs. During the Strabismus operation it is normal that for a pair of muscles one is weakened and the other strengthened to make the eye straighter. It may be necessary to operate on both eyes to balance them, even if the squint is only in one eye.
In some cases adjustable sutures will be used, so that shortly after the operation any minor adjustments can be made to achieve the best possible position of the eye.
If a muscle is too strong when you have strabismus, it may cause the eye to turn in, turn out or rotate too high or low.
On the other hand, an eye muscle weakness in certain cases may also cause misalignment. This condition may occur if you have a cranial nerve dysfunction affecting how eye muscles control movement.