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HOW STRABISMUS AFFECT THE QUALITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL

👓 Strabismus can impact various aspects of an individual’s quality of life, depending on factors like the severity of the condition, age of onset, and how it’s managed.

Potential Effects on Quality of Life

  • Vision and depth perception: Strabismus can affect how well the eyes work together, potentially impacting depth perception, visual clarity, or causing double vision in some cases.
  • Self-esteem and social interactions: Especially in children or teens, noticeable eye misalignment might affect self-confidence or interactions with peers.
  • Daily activities: Depending on the severity, strabismus might impact activities like reading, driving, or tasks requiring precise eye coordination.
  • Treatment and management: Some individuals might need glasses, patches, exercises, or surgery, which can influence daily routines or emotional well-being.

Varied Experiences

  • Adaptation and coping: Many people adapt to strabismus or learn to manage its effects on their daily lives.
  • Treatment outcomes: With proper management or treatment, many individuals with strabismus lead lives with minimal impact on their overall quality of life
TYPES OF STRABISMUS

👓 Strabismus, also known as crossed eyes or squint, is a condition where the eyes don’t align properly. There are several types of strabismus based on the direction of the misalignment and other characteristics.

Types of Strabismus

  • Esotropia: One or both eyes turn inward toward the nose.
  • Exotropia: One or both eyes turn outward away from the nose.
  • Hypertropia: One eye turns upward relative to the other eye.
  • Hypotropia: One eye turns downward relative to the other eye.

Other Classifications

  • Concomitant strabismus: The amount of misalignment is the same in all directions of gaze.
  • Incomitant strabismus: The amount of misalignment varies with the direction of gaze.
  • Intermittent strabismus: The malignment occurs sometimes but not all the time.
EYE CONDITIONS THAT CAN BE DISCOVERED IN YOUR CHILD BY TAKING THEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE EYE EXAMINATION

These conditions includes

  1. Retinoblastoma
  2. Refractive Errors
  3. Congenital cataract
  4. Congenital glaucoma
  5. Strabismus
  6. Amblyopia
  7. And many more…….
EYE CONDITIONS THAT CAN BE DISCOVERED IN YOUR CHILD BY TAKING THEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE EYE EXAMINATION

These conditions includes

  1. Retinoblastoma
  2. Refractive Errors
  3. Congenital cataract
  4. Congenital glaucoma
  5. Strabismus
  6. Amblyopia
  7. And many more…….
EYE CONDITIONS THAT CAN BE DISCOVERED IN YOUR CHILD BY TAKING THEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE EYE EXAMINATION

These conditions includes

  1. Retinoblastoma
  2. Refractive Errors
  3. Congenital cataract
  4. Congenital glaucoma
  5. Strabismus
  6. Amblyopia
  7. And many more…….
BINOCULARITY

BINOCULARITY is the ability of both eyes to focus on and see one object as one object without difficulty.

With binocularity, functions like depth perception, distance perception and movement detection, becomes possible.

With Binocularity in place, the two eyes converge together, diverge together and form a 3D perception.

Conditions that can disrupt binocularity includes, strabismus, amblyopia, loss of one eye, antimetropia or anisometropia, high degree phoria.

Signs and symptoms of lack of binocularity includes inability to tell two objects apart, double vision, eye strain,

Treatment for  Binocularity problems is simply visual therapy and eye exercises.

STRABISMUS

This is a disorder where by both eyes of an individual faces different positions of gaze.

This condition is also called crossed eyes,  or squint.

It is caused by injury to the eyes extraocular muscles, muscle paralysis, higher center lesions, surgery et.c.

Signs and symptoms includes visible crossed eyes, diplopia, blurry vision.

Treatment includes the use of eye patch,  eye exercises, surgery, prisms and corrective lenses.

AMBLYOPIA

Amblyopia or lazy eye is a reduction in vision of one or both eyes due to poor development of vision in childhood.

In cases like this, the eye with poor vision is ignored by the brain.

Conditions that can cause amblyopia includes strabismus, refractive Errors, cataract et.c

Amblyopia is treated by each of the following techniques or a combination of all of them, use of prescription glasses, Atropization, patching, vision therapy, eye exercises et.c

EYE PATCH

Many people may or may not be familiar with Eye patch. For those who are familiar with it, but don’t know the rationale behind it, bare in mind that it may not be an Insignia or fashion item of some sort but a form of treatment.

Most eye patches are recommended by the optometrist as treatment for certain eye issues.

Some of these eye issues includes.

Amblyopia or lazy eye.

Binocular diplopia or double vision

Infection

Cornea abrasion

Strabismus/squint.

Although some eye patch are usually fashion oriented. But whenever you see someone with an eye patch, bare in mind that the person may be treating the aforementioned conditions.