Amblyopia, the prevalence of which is about 3% among preschool and school-age children, which means that there are about 10 million amblyopic children among more than 300 million children in China, has caused great concern among parents and ophthalmologists. Amblyopia is a condition in which the eye examination is normal (no organic pathology) but the vision in one or both eyes is not normal, and the vision with corrective glasses does not reach the standard of normal children. Nowadays, most young parents pay attention to their children’s vision, but they are at a loss as to how to detect abnormal vision and how to work with doctors to correct amblyopia efficiently once it is diagnosed. Perhaps the following Q&A can help. How to detect amblyopia early? The first step is to check your child’s vision! Vision screening is the best way to detect amblyopia early. When you suspect that your infant or child has poor vision, it is important to go to a regular hospital in a timely manner to confirm the diagnosis after a thorough examination, or even, without any suspicion, to have your vision checked once every six months. What are the dangers of amblyopia? The greatest danger of amblyopia is that children with amblyopia not only have low vision in both eyes or one eye, but often do not have perfect binocular vision and cannot form stereo vision. This can limit many types of jobs in the future and affect their job prospects. What are the causes of amblyopia? The common causes of amblyopia are myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, strabismus, form deprivation, and other causes. These causes lead to stagnant visual development and low vision, resulting in amblyopia. What is the pathogenesis of amblyopia? The pathogenesis of amblyopia is now well understood and there are two main mechanisms: the first is form deprivation. The visual system is not well stimulated by external objects that are not clearly visible on the retina, which leads to stagnation of visual development and low visual acuity, resulting in amblyopia. The second is the inhibition of the amblyopic eye by the dominant eye. It has been proven that the clinical treatment for the first mechanism of amblyopia is to remove the form deprivation, with glasses, and for the second mechanism of amblyopia is to use masking therapy and suppression therapy, the cure rate is very high Amblyopia treatment methods? 1, wear corrective glasses: the majority of amblyopic children suffer from farsightedness, myopia or astigmatism, wear corrective glasses is equivalent to drugs! 2, masking therapy: two eyes with unequal or widely differing visual acuity, need to use masking therapy. Strictly and continuously cover the eye with good vision and “exercise” the amblyopic eye until the vision of the two eyes is equal or reaches normal level. The duration of masking is equivalent to the dose of medication! 3, suppression therapy: give the healthy eye an overcorrected or undercorrected lens, or give the healthy eye suppression film, or give the healthy eye drops of atropine, so that the healthy eye vision is lower than the amblyopic eye, so that the amblyopic eye more use, “exercise” amblyopic eye. 4.Adjunctive therapy: amblyopia training CD, amblyopia training device, etc. For example, needle threading, CAM vision enhancement therapy, drawing children’s sketches and other fine homework, so that the child in active training faster and better vision! Medication How long is the course of amblyopia treatment? The whole treatment process is a vision development process, so the treatment takes a long time. Parents should bring their children to the hospital for regular follow-ups as prescribed by the doctor so that the doctor can determine the effectiveness and adjust the treatment plan at any time. Parental cooperation is the key to successful treatment of pediatric amblyopia. Sometimes it takes more than one or two years. Is it better to treat amblyopia at a younger age? Of course! Treatment is closely related to age, and the younger the age, the better the results; treatment is less effective after the age of 12, and even less effective in adults. Amblyopia treatment emphasizes early detection and early treatment, and the cure rate is very high. Is a tilted head a strabismus? Strabismus is a phenomenon in which the visual axis of both eyes cannot look at the same target at the same time, and only one eye looks at the target while the visual axis of the other eye is to the side of the target. Strabismus is commonly known as “crossed eyes”, “crossed eyes”, and “squinting eyes”. Some people with upward strabismus are accompanied by a tilted head, commonly known as a “crooked neck. Strabismus does not necessarily mean that the head is tilted, but a tilted head must be a warning against strabismus. What are the dangers of strabismus? 1, affect the aesthetics, this is the most intuitive understanding of strabismus by patients and their parents. In order to overcome the interference, the brain can only force the strabismic eye not to look at things, the strabismic eye can not receive the stimulation of objects, the development of visual function stops, vision stops at a primary development stage, “use into waste”, corrected vision can not be improved, the formation of amblyopia. 3. More importantly, strabismus can cause loss of stereo vision function. Patients with strabismus cannot accurately judge the distance and height between objects, and cannot work in jobs that require stereo vision, such as driving and mapping. What is the best time to treat strabismus? Once strabismus is detected, early consultation and treatment will not only correct the strabismus, but also restore the lost or stunted stereo vision function, thus achieving the ideal goal of functional cure. What are the treatment methods of strabismus? Wearing glasses: Some strabismus is caused by farsightedness, astigmatism or myopia, after wearing glasses, strabismus will be cured, this kind of strabismus does not need surgery, wearing glasses is the best treatment method. 2.Surgical treatment: After wearing glasses, strabismus still exists and needs to be treated surgically. The effect of surgery is generally very good, and most of them can be cured in one operation, but some complex strabismus needs several operations to be corrected. 3. Some strabismus is accompanied by a “crooked head” and surgery is the best treatment. In short, strabismus and amblyopia are emphasized for early consultation and early treatment, otherwise delayed treatment will make it difficult to restore stereopsis and other binocular vision functions, and future career choice will be seriously affected.