Vision defect in a child can be the cause of school failure
Some school failure problems can be traced back to the child’s poor vision. Up to 15% of children have sight defects. Squinting, long-sightedness, short-sightedness, astigmatism and "lazy eye" are among the most frequent ailments until eight years of age. And experts advise an early ophthalmic check-up before the child completes his or her first year of age.
Children need their eyesight to be checked for the second time when they start school, which is at the age of three or four years of age, so that the eye-specialist can detect any problems in good time and correct emerging eyesight ailments, to ensure the child's performance at school.
In order to prevent or correct possible vision defects, parents are recommended to watch out for the following symptoms regarding their child's eyesight:
• Squinting of eyes in order to focus
• Bringing book close to face or going up close to the television screen in order to see better.
Experts agree that early diagnosis is essential when it comes to correcting ailments such as lazy eye, which can be solved easily over the first six years of a child's life and yet presents much lower success rates at a later stage, entailing a serious loss of vision in one of the eyes in some cases. It is estimated that four out of every one hundred children suffer from this ailment. Squinting is another problem that better be detected at an early age in order to rule out the presence of secondary problems, such as congenital malformations and tumor lesions.
Whilst the short-sighted children are faced with the challenge of seeing well from a distance, which makes it difficult for children to read the blackboard, the long-sighted children find that close-up focusing requires an excessive effort, which can cause headaches, itchy eyes and blurred vision, leaving them to put off their homework for a better occasion. Apart from long-sightedness, which diminishes in some cases as children grow older and can disappear entirely by the end of childhood, defects of refraction, i.e., short-sightedness and astigmatism are irreversible and progressive and require the use of glasses in order to ensure proper vision. more
Children need their eyesight to be checked for the second time when they start school, which is at the age of three or four years of age, so that the eye-specialist can detect any problems in good time and correct emerging eyesight ailments, to ensure the child's performance at school.
In order to prevent or correct possible vision defects, parents are recommended to watch out for the following symptoms regarding their child's eyesight:
• Squinting of eyes in order to focus
• Bringing book close to face or going up close to the television screen in order to see better.
Experts agree that early diagnosis is essential when it comes to correcting ailments such as lazy eye, which can be solved easily over the first six years of a child's life and yet presents much lower success rates at a later stage, entailing a serious loss of vision in one of the eyes in some cases. It is estimated that four out of every one hundred children suffer from this ailment. Squinting is another problem that better be detected at an early age in order to rule out the presence of secondary problems, such as congenital malformations and tumor lesions.
Whilst the short-sighted children are faced with the challenge of seeing well from a distance, which makes it difficult for children to read the blackboard, the long-sighted children find that close-up focusing requires an excessive effort, which can cause headaches, itchy eyes and blurred vision, leaving them to put off their homework for a better occasion. Apart from long-sightedness, which diminishes in some cases as children grow older and can disappear entirely by the end of childhood, defects of refraction, i.e., short-sightedness and astigmatism are irreversible and progressive and require the use of glasses in order to ensure proper vision. more
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Are you a medical doctor, Dr. Rajender Sharma? Unfortunately, the trouble with Govt hospitals is that within the limited facilities the doctors have to cater to a large number of patients. Otherwise too many patients have become habitual of seeking medical advice for the same ailment at more than one place...adding to the number of patients at any given place. Eyes are a person's most cherished possession out of all the sense organs, and most of what one learns or does depends a great deal on healthy eyes and adequate vision. And, it becomes imperative that eyes are taken care of by way of periodic professional eye exam anywhere, be it a Govt hospital or in a private setting. Anyway, the situation is not that bad as seems to have been presented by you. For example, at our place, consultation fee and a pair of corrective spectacles together can be availed of for an amount starting from within rupees on thousand...there of course being no upper limit depending upon the vast variety and quality of eyewear (frames) and ophthalmic lenses in different materials. more
Sep 12
It's a usual practice with every platform to provide in view a part of the post and then to mark the word `more'. It seems that you somehow have missed clicking `more'. All my posts are complete...I have just checked. more
Sep 12
Quite informative write-up. However, treatment of eyes is very costly and one has to cut on his bread for getting eye treatment. Visualising the need and importance of eyes for human beings, effective measures should be initiated both by public organisations and govt for cheaper eyes treatment. very often, govt. eye hospitals are overloaded with patients and for that reason we often avoid going to a govt hospital. Nevertheless, we have no money for treatment/check up in a private hospital and continue to suffer. Even an ordinary spectacle costs more than Rs two thousand. Suitable solutions are needed to resolve this problem more
Sep 11
