This, it turns out things that can lead to blindness in children.
Vankrez – based on data, approximately 3.5 million people or 1.47% of the population in Indonesia suffered blindness in both eyes.
On its own, Retinopati Prematuritas (ROP) is one of the causes of blindness are much experienced by children in Indonesia.
But not only the ROP, blindness in children can also be caused by other causes.
“The cause of blindness in children in addition to ROP there because of an infection, vitamin A deficiency, because children cataract tokso and rubella,” said Prof. Dr. Rita Sita Sitorus, Mss, PhD, as found in the area of South Jakarta a few days ago.
If we ignore the ROP can cause other serious eye disorder.
As reported by of webmd.com, ROP can cause eyes squint (strabismus), retinal ablation, glaucoma, and eye of the lazy.
The eyes squint or strabismus is a condition in which one between the eyes with an eye more not work together well when viewing an object.
The eyes squint in children occurs due to innate from birth but the original cause is not yet clear.
The eyes squint can be corrected by using glasses, but we should still bring a child to a pediatric ophthalmologist doctor.
Retinal ablation is the migration of the retina from its original place.
Ablation of the retina can occur due to low vision far, injury of post-operative eye, cataracts, congenital and family.
Glaucoma is nerve damage because of the buildup of pressure.
Most people with glaucoma do not have early symptoms or pain.
Therefore, we need our children's eyes checked regularly.
Lazy eye or amblyopia is a condition where one child is weaker than the other.
So the brain choose to take pictures of the stronger eye and ignore images from the weaker eye.
Dr. Rita also adds, children not only can undergo refraction abnormalities but the blindness.
Refraction abnormalities occur usually marked with low vision (myopia), nearsightedness (hypermetropia), and eye of the cylinder (astigmat).
EmoticonEmoticon