3-year-old child always likes to look at things with squinting eyes, it turns out that it is caused by amblyopia

Ruirui (pseudonym), 3 years old, suffers from amblyopia, with hyperopia of over 700 degrees in both eyes. Ruirui's father, who also suffered from amblyopia when he was a child, knows how much amblyopia affects him. In order to prevent his child from having lifelong regrets, the family of three travels four hours a day to take Ruirui to the Wuhan University Affiliated Aier Eye Hospital for visual training. In more than two months, Ruirui's corrected vision has improved from 0.15 to 0.6.

It turned out that half a year ago, Ruirui's father found that when his child watched TV, his head was either tilted to one side or he looked at it sideways, and sometimes his eyes would be crossed. After he went to kindergarten, he often fell when walking and couldn't hold things properly. At the teacher's reminder, Ruirui's parents took him to have his eyes checked, and found that his refractive power was abnormal. To improve this situation, they took their child to the Aier Eye Hospital affiliated to Wuhan University for treatment not long ago.

After a detailed examination, Cai Chunyan, deputy chief physician of the hospital's strabismus and pediatric ophthalmology department, found that the child's left eye had hyperopia of 725 degrees, astigmatism of 50 degrees, and axial position of 110 degrees, and the right eye had hyperopia of 775 degrees, astigmatism of 50 degrees, and axial position of 80 degrees. Both eyes had hyperopia of more than 700 degrees. After scanning laser fundus examination, organic lesions were ruled out, and it was concluded that Ruirui had a typical amblyopia caused by high hyperopia.

"This little patient sees things with his eyes squinting because of his high degree of hyperopia, which causes accommodative esotropia." Deputy Chief Physician Cai Chunyan explained that after learning that the patient's father had a history of amblyopia when he was young, she judged that the child's amblyopia was likely due to congenital inheritance. Considering Ruirui's extremely high degree of hyperopia and severely poor vision, the number of times must be increased when formulating a training plan. In addition to wearing glasses and covering, Director Cai Chunyan also asked Ruirui's parents to bring their child to the hospital every day to receive training on the 4D digital strabismus and amblyopia correction system.

Ruirui's family lives in Huangpi, and it takes at least four hours to go to the hospital every day. "I have had monocular amblyopia since I was a child. Due to delayed treatment, the vision of one eye is still poor. Now my child has encountered a similar problem. I must not let him repeat my mistakes." Ruirui's father said resolutely that he chose to face the challenge for his child.

In the following four months, Ruirui's parents brought their child to the hospital early in the morning every few days. "We are so happy to see our child's vision improving day by day and no longer squinting when looking at things!" Ruirui's mother said. At first, Ruirui's corrected vision was only 0.15 and 0.2. After 120 visual training sessions, his corrected vision had reached 0.6 and is currently recovering steadily.

Deputy Chief Physician Cai Chunyan said that the best corrected visual acuity of a 3-year-old child is generally 0.5. When the corrected visual acuity is lower than 0.4 and there is no organic lesion in the eye examination, amblyopia should be ruled out. If one of the parents has amblyopia, the child's chance of suffering from amblyopia will also increase accordingly. "If amblyopia cannot be treated promptly and reasonably, the visual defects that occur will often accompany life." Deputy Chief Physician Cai Chunyan added that she reminded that during the critical period of children's visual growth and development (3-6 years old), parents should take their children to professional ophthalmology hospitals for eye health examinations to achieve early prevention, early detection, and early intervention.