Newborn Eye Screening

1. Misconceptions: The incidence of neonatal eye disease in China is increasing year by year, and early screening for neonatal eye disease is crucial to children’s eye care. As people’s health awareness increases, the number of people receiving newborn eye screening increases year by year, but there are still some parents and even medical personnel who do not understand the importance of newborn eye screening, resulting in babies missing the time for treatment. 2, the young age of the child, especially many high-risk children need to be monitored during treatment, how to early eye screening has become a common problem faced by neonatologists and ophthalmologists. This requires active cooperation between neonatologists and ophthalmologists in the screening of newborns, including high-risk children, and early implementation after the vital signs of high-risk children are stable. Many congenital eye diseases in children are difficult to treat, and there is no good treatment for them, so research on neonatal eye diseases is something that pediatric ophthalmologists should pay attention to.