Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus
There is a need of spreading more awareness among pediatricians and primary care physicians to recognise the common peditric eye diseases. They are the primary doctors of the child and anything missed at that level may present to the pediatric ophthalmologist very late, by which time the chances visual recovery may not be very good.
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Parents walking into the clinic often ask:
If we are able to answer these questions correctly, then we will be in better equipped to realize the seriousness of some of the pediatric eye problems. With majority of the ophthalmologists too being very busy with their adult patients, the children were often deprived of proper attention. But then the realization came that if we compare the life expectancy of our pediatric patients, one blind child will be equivalent to 5 blind adults. This led to the evolution of Pediatric Ophthalmology as a separate sub-speciality.
With history, we could get some clues to suspect eye diseases in children. Some of the important points to be noted are: