Vision de l'enfant de 3 à 12 ans

Abstract

Any obstacle to the image formation or alignment of an eyeball in relation to the other during the first years of life, can threaten visual function in a sometimes irreversible. Therefore, the vision screening should be mandatory at age nonverbal, in which early treatment can often improve simply because the anomaly. However, some disorders may not emerge until later and some warning signs should alarm the environment or the health professionals involved in the lives of young children photophobia, eye blinking, eyelid folds, disinterest visual tearing, friction irritated eyelids, decreased visual acuity, strabismus, nystagmus .. Thus children with family history should always be detected. The refractive errors (hypermetropia, myopia, astigmatism) should be detected by cycloplegia and lead to the wearing of corrective lenses, one in four children who need corrective lenses from the age of 5 years or more after 7-8 years due to the installation of school myopia. Most strabismus are installed at the age of 3 years, they are constant or intermittent. Any loss of vision late inaméliorable should call for a retinal pathology associated period of visual plasticity in children is limited in time, reducing the effectiveness of treatment of amblyopia with age.