What is Pediatric Ophthalmology?

 

Pediatric ophthalmology is your children has an eye problem, is having difficulty with a vision screening exam or has difficulty reading or learning, or needs surgery or medical treatment for an illness affecting the eyes, a pediatric ophthalmology has the experience and qualifications to treat your child. There are  most common conditions which affect eyesight during childhood are

 Eye conditions can also affect children's quality of life by limiting their ability to take part in           age-  appropriate activities.

• v  situational disorders, which are often diagnosed shortly after birth or within the first year of life
• v  Refractive/optical problems (short-sightedness, long-sightedness, astigmatism)
• v  amblyopia (commonly known as lazy eye)
• v  strabismus
• v  swelling on the surface of or inside the eye, including allergic eye disease
• v  infections of the conjunctiva, the transparent membrane which covers the white part of the eye and the inside of the eyelids Eyelid lesions

Ophthalmology are the only practitioners medically trained to diagnose and treat all eye and visual problems including vision services (glasses and contacts) and provide treatment and prevention of medical disorders of the eye including surgery. Visual acuity test is the one of the primary tests for your child in an eye exam. It measures the sharpness of his/her eye-sight. It is performed employing a projected eye chart to measure the distance of visual acuity and a tiny hand-held acuity chart to measure the space of sight at a standard reading distance.