When should I take my baby for an eye examination?

When should I take my baby for eye examination? 1, the baby such as eye red, photophobia, tearing, secretion, pupil area white, strabismus or tilted head to see things, nystagmus, can not chase after toys, see things too close or squint, walking in the dark difficulties, family members have a history of congenital eye disease, or baby for premature low weight and other abnormalities should promptly take the baby to the hospital ophthalmology examination eyes. 2.Healthy babies should have their first eye screening at 28-30 days, and stage eye screening and vision examination at 3, 6 and 12 months of age and 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years of age respectively. 3.Babies during strabismus and amblyopia treatment should be reviewed regularly according to the doctor’s arrangement in order to adjust the treatment plan in time. 4.Babies who wear glasses without strabismus and amblyopia need to go to the hospital for review every six months or a year to determine whether to adjust glasses after optometry. 5, the baby’s eyes into a foreign body or eye injury to timely to the eye examination. Reason 1, human infancy is a critical period of visual development, this period of visual system, eye movement system development is very rapid, any congenital or acquired eye abnormalities can very easily interfere with or disrupt the normal development of the visual system, resulting in visual acuity, stereo vision function, eye movement function development abnormalities. If eye diseases are detected and treated in time during infancy, the more effective the treatment and the less damage to the baby’s eye development will be. If they are not detected and treated in time, they will miss the critical period of visual development, and the treatment will be less effective and may even result in lifelong visual development defects. 2, many eye diseases are not abnormal in appearance, especially when there is a problem in one eye, because the other eye is healthy, the baby can play, play, watch TV, read like other children, parents and teachers are difficult to find the baby’s eye abnormalities. 3, both infants and children and teenagers their bodies have been developing rapidly, the same eyes are also developing, the height has grown, the eyes have also changed. Adults can wear a dress for many years, a pair of glasses for a long time, but the baby’s clothes are replaced every year, because the height has grown, the previous clothes are short, the same baby’s pair of glasses can not be worn all the time, need half a year or a year to re-optometry, adjust the replacement glasses. So parents must take their babies to the hospital ophthalmology clinic in time when they find abnormalities in the baby’s eyes, and follow the doctor’s orders for regular review if eye diseases are diagnosed for treatment, and take the baby to the hospital ophthalmology clinic for regular eye health checks if parents do not find abnormalities in the baby’s eyes.