Netizen's mother: Hello, doctor, my child 15 months old, boy, eye to eye. What should I do? It's urgent to get an answer. Go to the hospital. The doctor said it was 10 degrees. what can I do? Born this way.
The pediatrician said that "eye alignment" should be a patent for babies under 2 years old. Because the infant's nose bridge is low, the inner canthus of both eyes moves outward, that is, the inner distance between the eyes is large, which leads to some white eyeballs in the eyes being covered, forming a false eye-to-eye phenomenon. With the height of the infant's nose bridge, at the age of 2-3, the inner canthus of both eyes moves inward, the distance between the eyes is "shortened", and the contralateral eye disappears. As long as the eyes are symmetrical, these eyes will not disappear until the bridge of the nose is high.
In fact, in the first few months of the baby's life, the eye muscles, especially some muscles that regulate eye movements, are underdeveloped, and the ability of eyes to coordinate movements is poor. Moreover, the baby is usually very used to observing things around him with deep and unfocused eyes and communicating with his parents. In addition, the baby's nasal bone is not developed in infancy, and the distance between the eyes is close. Young parents always feel that their babies look at their children in the right way. In fact, this is a temporary normal physiological phenomenon for most children. Generally, after 2 to 3 months, the baby's binocular fixation ability can develop well.
However, during this period, if parents care carelessly, it may induce or aggravate the baby's strabismus and cross-eyed. If you often only let your baby look at the light side, don't pay attention to changing posture frequently; Or hang the toys in the crib too close, so that the baby's eyes can often look at nearby objects, and so on. Therefore, parents should pay attention to changing the baby's sleeping position, so that the direction of light projection often changes. Sleep on the left today, sleep on the right tomorrow, and change it every other day, so that the child's eyes will not turn to one side often; Don't hang colored toys on the crib too close, at least at a distance of 1 m, or at various angles, to avoid the baby paying attention to only one point, so as not to squint or cross his eyes. Of course, with the development of baby's facial bones, especially the development of orbital and nasal bones, the false endoscope will gradually disappear.
The method of "an eye for an eye" is very simple. As long as the skin at the bridge of the nose is lifted, the light at the bridge of the nose is illuminated with a flashlight and falls in the center of the pupils of both eyes, which is a fake "eye-to-eye" and a real "eye-to-eye". False "cross-eyed" does not need treatment, because the position of the eyeball is positive. With the development of nasal bone with age, the inner canthus skin is lifted by nasal bone. The feeling of "eye to eye" disappeared. There is a folk saying that it is good for children to grow up without treatment. In fact, it refers to the fake "cross-eyed".
The real "an eye for an eye" must be treated, and the earlier the treatment, the better. Pseudomyopia "eye to eye" has the functions of coincidence, fusion and stereoscopic triple vision of normal eyes. The real "eye-to-eye" does not have these three-level visual functions, so we must treat it as soon as possible and establish these three-level visual functions. Otherwise, the treatment after getting old will only play a cosmetic role, affecting children's fine work and driving motor vehicles.
If the baby has been cross-eyed or squint, it is even more necessary to guide the baby to correct it in many directions. If you don't get better at the age of 3, you will see an ophthalmologist.