A child’s eyes protruding like a frog’s may be caused by congenital glaucoma, high myopia and thyroid disease.
1. Congenital glaucoma: If a child suffers from congenital glaucoma, the eyeballs will keep getting bigger as the intraocular pressure keeps rising, and in serious cases, the eyes will protrude like frog’s eyes, accompanied by symptoms such as photophobia and tearing.
2. High myopia: mainly due to genetic and environmental factors, resulting in small children with high myopia, high myopia will make the anterior and posterior diameters of the eyeballs grow significantly, resulting in the eyes protruding like a frog phenomenon.
3. Thyroid disease: when patients with hyperthyroidism, the body’s metabolic ability to enhance the extraocular muscles will gradually proliferate, the eyeball by the extraocular muscle tissues outward extrusion, which leads to children’s eyes protruding like a frog.
If the child’s eyes protrude like a frog, it is recommended that parents take the child to the regular hospital to identify the cause of the disease in a timely manner, and actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment.