This is one of the few eye diseases that can be recognized even without the help of a specialist. Strabismus- this is a condition that is characterized by a deviation of one or both eyes from the central axis, that is, a person's eyes do not look in one direction, as expected, but in different directions. And as a result, the gaze cannot focus on the subject under consideration.

Most often, strabismus develops in children aged 2-3 years during the formation of friendly work of both eyes. According to medical statistics, every 50th child suffers from some degree of strabismus.

Strabismus can appear as a result of: injuries and infectious diseases of the brain; inflammatory, vascular or tumoral changes in the eye muscles; incorrectly or untimely compensated myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism; congenital diseases or birth injuries; increased mental and physical stress; non-observance of visual loads in children.

There are two forms of strabismus - friendly and paralytic.

In the case of concomitant strabismus, it mows either the left or the right eye, while the magnitude of the deviation from the direct position is approximately the same. This type of strabismus is most often associated with the peculiarities of the structure of the eye, inherited and manifests itself mainly in children. Paralytic strabismus occurs either due to damage to the glaeomotor muscles, or as a result of a disease of the visual-nerve pathways. At the same time, one (healthy) eye mows.

When a person examines an object, his diseased eye moves poorly or does not move at all, and the healthy one has to deviate to a larger angle. Strabismus can be: converging(often combined with farsightedness) when one of the eyes deviates towards the nose; divergent(often combined with myopia), when one of the eyes deviates to the temple; vertical when the eye squints up or down.

Most likely, others will be the first to notice strabismus. For example, a child will be teased by peers in kindergarten or at school (“one eye is on the Caucasus, and the other is on Arzamas”). An adult will be hinted that something is wrong with his eyes, constantly or periodically their position becomes asymmetrical. At the same time, the patient himself begins to be disturbed by double vision, dizziness and headaches. Instead of a three-dimensional image, he sees a flat one, notices a decrease in visual acuity in the squinting eye.

Strabismus that develops in childhood can affect the formation of the child's psyche. In children, the perception of the world around is disturbed, physical and mental development may slow down.

A common complication of strabismus is amblyopia("lazy eye") - a sharp drop in vision in the squinting eye as a result of insufficient visual load on the muscles of the eye. The diagnosis of strabismus is established only by an ophthalmologist after a thorough examination and clarification possible causes development of strabismus. The doctor will check visual acuity using special tables, determine the angle of strabismus, evaluate the friendly work of both eyes using special mirrors.

It is desirable to start treatment of strabismus as early as possible, by itself it cannot disappear with age. Treatment of strabismus is long (on average it takes 2-3 years), requires careful observance of all doctor's prescriptions and constant monitoring. The fight against strabismus begins with the correction of existing myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism. Wearing spectacles starts at a very young age, wear them constantly and for a long time until the symptoms of strabismus decrease. Another important part of the treatment is the performance of special exercises aimed at creating a visual load on the weakened muscles of the squinting eye.

With the development of complications of amblyopia, it may be necessary to wear glasses with one of the glasses sealed - thus, for the worse seeing eye, conditions are created for its constant load and, accordingly, training of weakened eye muscles.

Such treatment is carried out for a long time and requires constant monitoring of vision for the timely termination of treatment. If glasses and special exercises do not help, or in cases of paralytic strabismus, the patient is referred for surgery. In children, it is most often performed at the age of 3-6 years. Up to 14 years of age, operations are performed under general anesthesia, after 14 under local anesthesia. Recovery after surgery takes an average of ten days. After the operation, it is necessary to continue to perform special exercises to train the eye muscles and the constant supervision of an ophthalmologist.

Even from early childhood, it is necessary to properly give children visual loads: you can’t hang toys too close to the child’s eyes, you need to monitor his posture, follow the rules for alternating the learning process: the physical and mental stages of personality formation.

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is a visual defect in which the functioning of the eye muscles is impaired. Because of this, the movement of the eyeballs becomes unsynchronized. Strabismus is a common problem. This article discusses ways to deal with strabismus in adults.

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Why do adults develop strabismus?

In a normal state, both human eyes are oriented to the same visual axis. A single image of a visible object is obtained due to the processing of two projections by the brain. Binocular vision with strabismus is impaired due to improper functioning of the oculomotor muscles.

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Formation mechanism

With strabismus, the eyeballs can take an independent position. The eye can deviate up, down, right or left. The disease can affect both eyes or only one of them. Often the disease occurs against the background of other visual disorders, which may be the cause of strabismus. This disease is most often diagnosed in childhood. However, strabismus can also develop in adults.

Strabismus in adults can develop due to other diseases or injuries, such as:

• thyroid disease;
• neuromuscular diseases;
• diabetes;
• tumors of the central nervous system;
• head injury;
• diabetes;
• heart attack.

In some cases, strabismus may appear after surgical interventions: cataract surgery, plastic surgery, retinal detachment surgery. Strabismus can occur due to poor vision. This pathology is called "sensory strabismus". In this case, strabismus is the result of poor vision, not its cause.

Possible reasons for the development of strabismus in adulthood include: infectious diseases, the development of farsightedness, astigmatism or cataracts, excessively high blood pressure, cancer of the retina, severe fright or other severe psychological conditions.

There is a standard classification of strabismus. This disease can be friendly or unfriendly, congenital or acquired. A friendly view means the same angle of deviation of the patient's eyes depending on the axis of focus. At the same time, both eyeballs retain the ability to move.

Types of concomitant strabismus:

• accommodation;
• non-accommodative;
• mixed.

The accommodation group is the most common. This type of pathology appears not earlier than reaching the age of two. The occurrence of accommodative strabismus is associated with excessive accommodation stress. The accommodative type does not require surgical intervention.

Non-accommodative strabismus usually develops during the first year of life. This type of strabismus rarely develops later in life. This pathology is based on paresis of the oculomotor muscles, provoked by birth or intrauterine trauma.

Non-accommodative strabismus is considered as one of the symptoms of cerebral palsy.

Possible causes of concomitant strabismus include:

• a condition in which the visual acuity of the eye is significantly different from the visual acuity of the other eye;
• various eye diseases leading to a decrease in vision or its complete loss;
• diseases of the retina;
• differences in the structure of the eyes present at birth.

Concomitant strabismus can be characterized by the following features:

• one eye deviates from the axis when fixing vision on a fixed object;
• there is no double vision of objects before the eyes;
• there is no volumetric (binocular) vision;
• concomitant farsightedness, myopia or astigmatism.

In unfriendly strabismus, one eye deviates from focus at different angles. This disease can occur due to paralysis of the motor muscles of the eye, which implies the inability of the eyeball to move. These changes can occur as a result of nerve damage, previous infectious diseases, injuries and tumors.

Signs of unfriendly strabismus include:

• limitation or complete absence of eye mobility in the direction of the affected muscle;
• double vision, lack of binocular vision;
• involuntary deviation of the head towards the wrongly working muscle;
• frequent dizziness and headaches.

There is also convergent, divergent and vertical strabismus. Converging strabismus often acts in conjunction with farsightedness, with this pathology the direction of the gaze is directed to the bridge of the nose.

This disease develops in childhood and is most often transient. Divergent strabismus can be combined with myopia, the eye in this case is directed to the temple. With vertical strabismus, the eye deviates from the axis up or down.

Strabismus can be permanent or intermittent. In addition, there are atypical types of strabismus. They are rare and are the result of anatomical developmental anomalies.

Diagnostics

Acquired strabismus can be treated if the disease can be diagnosed in time.

Signs of strabismus:

• deviation of the eye towards the temple or in the opposite direction;
• bifurcation of objects;
• uncontrollable squinting;
• eye movement is not synchronous;
• tilting the head in an attempt to examine the object.

There are also additional symptoms of strabismus: frequent dizziness, persistent headaches and migraines, nausea and vomiting, disorders of the vestibular apparatus, complaints of memory impairment.

ATTENTION! The diagnosis is established only by an ophthalmologist after a thorough examination and finding out the possible causes of the pathology.

Diagnosis of strabismus includes special tests, ophthalmoscopy and biomicroscopy, visual assessment of facial symmetry, visual acuity testing, measurement of the angle of strabismus and determination of the volume of accommodation.

Therapy

In most cases of strabismus, vision correction is performed surgically. After the intervention, the patient undergoes a course of recovery.

without surgery

Some techniques allow you to get rid of strabismus on your own, at home. All effective techniques are based on relieving tension from the oculomotor muscles. When the muscles of the eyeballs relax, they begin to strive for a physiologically correct position.

Exercises

In strabismus, the patient's eyes are unable to turn in sync. When it is possible to achieve synchronization, it is necessary to combine the images that enter the brain from both eyes.

After carrying out these procedures, it is possible to talk about the complete elimination of the pathology. Muscle relaxation alone is not enough: to return to the correct position, the eyes need training.

For divergent strabismus

Divergent strabismus is a condition in which a person's eyes deviate from the bridge of the nose. There are several exercises with which you can get rid of this disease:

• The patient sits down to the TV screen with his left side and looks with his right eye, directing his gaze towards the bridge of the nose. The left eye should be covered with a bandage. After a while, the patient turns to the screen with his right side, and looks with his left eye. The exercise should first be performed for twenty minutes, then the execution time should be increased to an hour.
• The exercise can also be performed using a mask in which a cutout for the eyes is made in the form of a vertical slit located on the bridge of the nose. The width of the gap should be thirty millimeters. The slot is symmetrical about the nose and provides two gaps to look into, first with the right eye, then with the left eye.

Exercise should begin with a warm-up. To do this, you need to rotate the eyeballs several times clockwise and counterclockwise. Then you can perform the following series of simple exercises:

• Alternately shift the eyes, first all the way to the left, then to the right. Do the exercise in an up and down direction.
• Extend your hand in front of you. Move your gaze to the tip of your finger. The hand should be slowly brought closer to the face and just as smoothly pulled back. Repeat each movement at least fifteen times.
• Observe a moving object, such as a car outside a window.
• Go to the window and select an object that is at a sufficient distance. Put a small object on the windowsill, it should be in line with the object outside the window. It is necessary to take turns looking from one object to another, each time focusing the vision.
• Move your eyes, describing the figure eight in the air. You need to try to make the eyes work synchronously.

Some people cannot tell for sure if they are looking at an object. Such patients can be helped by having another person monitor the deviation of the eyes and correct the patient. When training the eye muscles, you need to be patient.

ATTENTION! A noticeable effect from performing exercises to train the eyes with strabismus can be achieved only with the correct and regular implementation of the complex.

For hidden strabismus

If a person's eye muscles have different strengths of action, latent strabismus is detected - a condition in which a violation of the position of the cornea can be observed only by excluding one eye from the process of vision.

A good result in the treatment of latent strabismus can be achieved by performing special exercises for the eyes. Training involves doing exercises:

• Close your eyes one at a time, trying to carefully focus on objects in front of you.
• Extend your arms in front of you. Clench your palm into a fist, leave your index finger straight. Attention should be focused on the finger, which should be brought closer to the tip of the nose, then moved away. When the finger approaches the nose, the gaze must be held for a few seconds.

After each exercise, you need to give your eyes a rest. Overwork during exercise can adversely affect the treatment process.

In addition to performing exercises, an ophthalmologist may prescribe the following means of combating strabismus:

• use of eye drops;
• vision correction by wearing glasses or contact lenses;
• limiting visibility to the healthy eye so that the squinting eye becomes the leading one.

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Hardware treatment

Ophthalmologists have developed techniques that allow not only to develop binocular vision, but also to activate the work of nerve cells that transmit images to the brain, as well as significantly reduce eye fatigue. Computer programs are designed in such a way that all components of the visual system take part in the work.

A special device for the correction of strabismus with the help of a magnet, light and separation of the fields of view of each eye allows not only to activate nerve cells, but also to improve blood circulation. As a result of the procedures, the main visual functions are restored, which makes it possible to completely cure the disease, subject to preventive measures.

Hardware treatment of strabismus must be repeated twice a year. The full course includes about ten sessions, each taking about half an hour.

Surgery

Surgical treatment of strabismus can be performed at any age. Usually, this method of treating strabismus is resorted to when other methods have not been effective enough. In most cases, surgery is a successful and safe treatment for strabismus in adults. Surgical treatment of strabismus is performed by an ophthalmic surgeon.

The operation is performed to improve the quality of life. Strabismus can cause double vision and heavy prism glasses can be uncomfortable. In addition, strabismus affects the emotional and social aspects of life.

Most patients experience significant improvement in eye position after a single operation. Additional interventions or temporary wearing of prismatic spectacles may be prescribed.

Expert opinion

Nosova Yulia Vladimirovna

Doctor ophthalmologist of the highest category. Candidate of Medical Sciences.

When diagnosing a severe form of the disease, surgical treatment of strabismus is carried out in two stages. If the patient suffers from a bilateral form of strabismus, only one eye is operated on first. Surgery to correct the vision of the second eye can be done after six months. If the deviation angle is more than thirty degrees, surgery is also performed in several stages.

After the operation, the patient usually does not experience much discomfort. Headache and discomfort in the eyes should not last more than a week. Usually, patients return to their normal lives a few days after surgery, but in some cases, surgeons recommend limiting physical activity for a while.

Possible Complications

Unfortunately, strabismus is not exclusively a cosmetic defect. Improper eye position leads to double vision. If the brain does not perceive signals from the diseased eye, amblyopia occurs - a decrease in visual acuity. If the image from the diseased eye is perceived as normal, abnormal retinal correspondence occurs, that is, an incorrect connection between the central areas of the retina and the brain.

Complications can occur not only in case of untimely treatment of strabismus, but also in the treatment of strabismus by surgical intervention. Although the risks are small, they are still there. Achievements of modern medicine reduce the risk of serious complications and virtually eliminate death. The risk of complete or partial loss of vision is also extremely small.

The disadvantage of surgical treatment is the possible limitations. This concerns the unpredictability of the result of the operation. Each person is individual, so the same operation can cure one patient and be insufficient for another.

Possible risks of surgery include the possibility of a change in strabismus from divergent to convergent and vice versa. Some patients may require additional surgery to achieve the desired effect.

Is it possible to drive a car with such a diagnosis?

According to statistics, about four percent of the adult population suffers from strabismus. In violation of binocularity, there are significant restrictions in the choice of profession. There are a number of features when obtaining a driver's license. An obstacle to obtaining a certificate are various pathologies of vision: severe myopia, glaucoma, impaired color perception. The quality of vision is strictly checked by a medical commission.

Getting rights with strabismus depends on the quality of vision with this disease. The issuance of a driver's license is prohibited in case of violation of binocularity and diplopia. Visual acuity is important for refractive errors: it should be at least 0.5 on the leading eye and at least 0.2 on the second eye, when using correction tools. Only in this case, a person will be able to obtain the rights of categories A, A1, B1 and M.

Can lenses be worn?

Many are interested in whether it is safe to wear lenses to correct strabismus and improve the quality of life in this pathology. It should be noted that contact lenses will only improve the clarity of vision, and not cure the disease.

It must be taken into account that the lenses come into direct contact with the cornea of ​​the eye, which can lead to irritation and discomfort during strabismus. To choose the right lenses, taking into account their mobility and other parameters, a consultation with an ophthalmologist is necessary.

ATTENTION! It is forbidden to use contact lenses if the angle of curvature in strabismus exceeds 15 degrees.

Contact lenses for strabismus can be worn if:

• the angle of curvature is less than fifteen degrees;
• the patient does not suffer from conjunctivitis, lens subluxation and other contraindications to wearing vision correction devices;
• Lenses are carefully selected to suit the needs of the patient.

Prevention

Prevention of strabismus is as important as the treatment of this disease. Only thanks to the timely selection of funds for the treatment of strabismus, you can get rid of this pathology. Preventive measures include:

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For many people, the question of how to correct strabismus is relevant. This ailment causes vision problems, and can also cause some inconvenience associated with external manifestations. Fortunately, if treatment is started in a timely manner, it is likely to achieve positive results.

What is strabismus?

Strabismus is a dissonant misalignment of the eyes. In this case, their normal location relative to the central axis is observed. This problem may affect one or both eyes. If treatment is not started on time, there is a risk of permanently losing the sharpness of vision and the ability to focus.

According to statistics, every fortieth child has strabismus to one degree or another. The first manifestations can be noticed during the period when the main reflexes and functions of the body begin to form. Fortunately, strabismus has specific external manifestations that are easy to notice, which makes it possible to start treatment in a timely manner.

Forms of strabismus

The answer to the question of how to correct strabismus largely depends on the form in which the disease manifests itself. There are three options:

1. Friendly - eyes squint alternately.
2. Separate - the eyes squint at the same time, no matter how strong the displacement is.
3. Alternate-synchronous - the eyes squint at the same time, but to the extent that they are displaced.

Causes of strabismus

Before you figure out how to correct strabismus, you should learn about the causes of this disease. In most cases, it is associated with a genetic predisposition or prenatal development problems. It is impossible to identify this problem until it begins to receive specific external manifestations (by 7-10 years).

In rare cases, strabismus is acquired. This problem can be caused by the following reasons:

• different visual acuity leads to the fact that one eye has a large load when focusing;
• various acquired diseases that lead to strabismus;
• diseases of the central nervous system, which, one way or another, affected the visual department;
• diseases of the ENT organs.

Possible consequences

In order to realize the importance of the question of how to correct strabismus, it is worth understanding the possible consequences. Many prefer to remain inactive, considering this defect to be cosmetic. However, this is a serious disease that can lead to irreparable consequences.

The main danger of strabismus is that the work of the eye muscles becomes inconsistent. In this case, the brain receives 2 different pictures. As a result, doubling may occur. But in most cases, the brain begins to suppress the signal coming from the diseased eye. As a result, there is a strong up to its complete loss.

Exercises for children

Parents are increasingly wondering how to fix it. For kids, a simple set of exercises has been developed, including the following points:

• Similar images with minor differences should be printed on two sheets of paper (it is desirable that the stories are fabulous in order to interest the child). Sit the child upright and place the pictures at the level of the child's eyes. Without moving his head, but only rolling his eyes, he must examine them, finding differences.
• In a board, a piece of plastic or a sheet of thick cardboard, you need to make several holes at the same level. Keeping the inventory at some distance, give the child a string, which he must pass through each of the holes in turn.
• A sheet of paper must be drawn into equal squares. Use a felt-tip pen to draw schematic drawings (rhombuses, triangles, etc.), filling in all the free field with them. The task of the child will be to find duplicate elements.

Exercises for adults

In search of an answer to the question of how to correct strabismus in adults, it is almost always a question of surgical intervention. Nevertheless, do not underestimate the effect of gymnastics. So, for adults, as well as for older children, the following exercises are suitable:

• Stand up straight and stretch your hand forward, leaving your index finger. Start slowly moving your hand up, down and to the sides. The head should remain still, and the eyes should follow the index finger intently.
• Sit up straight, looking straight ahead. Start describing the sign of infinity with your eyes. The amplitude should be maximum so that a strong tension is felt at the extreme points. The exercise is performed smoothly. Duration - 5 minutes.
• For the treatment of strabismus, playing with moving objects (for example, table tennis), on which you need to concentrate close attention, is useful. If you do not see the potential of a player in yourself, you can be present as a spectator.
• While working on documents, at computers, or while watching TV, periodically distract yourself to shift your focus to nearby objects.

A little about nutrition

If you want to find the answer to the question of how to correct strabismus at home, you should understand that exercises alone are not enough. Like any other disease, ophthalmic problems require proper nutrition. So, for more effective treatment of strabismus, it is worth including the following foods in the diet:

• natural dark chocolate (every day after breakfast you need to eat 2-3 slices);
• tea can sometimes be replaced with rosehip broth, which contains a lot of vitamins in its composition;
• a decoction of calamus root (10 grams of raw material per glass of water), which is consumed half an hour before meals, helps strengthen the eye muscle;
• several times a day you need to eat boiled cabbage leaves (they not only improve vision, but also contribute to the overall cleansing of the body).

Conservative treatment

It is worth distinguishing between primary strabismus, which is congenital and acts in conjunction with other diseases of the central nervous system, as well as secondary, which is directly related to the visual apparatus. Treatment will be fundamentally different. A secondary problem requires the intervention of an ophthalmologist, and therefore it is important to choose a good ophthalmological clinic. When you decide where to correct strabismus, you will be offered the following treatment program:

• wearing medical glasses that relieve eye strain and allow you to look straight;
• hardware training of the eye muscles (laser, ultrasound, magnetic or other methods can be used);
• in the event that during the year it was not possible to achieve positive dynamics, surgical intervention may be required.

Surgical intervention

In search of a way to correct strabismus, surgery is considered a last resort. Surgery can be of two types:

• Relaxing - the eye muscles move further away from the cornea, which allows the eye to assume a normal (or close to normal) position.
• Reinforcing - a small fragment of the eye muscle is removed, which leads to a decrease in its length. Thus, the balance of the eyeball is restored.

Prevention of strabismus

Can strabismus be corrected? Of course, there are methods for treating congenital and acquired forms of this disease. As for the second case, prevention will help prevent it. You should avoid focusing on one subject for a long time, reading and watching TV in an uncomfortable position. But the most important thing is to regularly perform eye gymnastics, which includes the following exercises:

• rotate the pupils clockwise for a few seconds, then change direction;
• look to the right, and then sharply look to the left (change the position of the pupils 10 times);
• look up, then sharply down, and then up again (as in the previous case, 10 repetitions are enough);
• bring the pupils to the bridge of the nose as close as possible to feel a strong tension (5 times);
• close your eyes tightly, and after a few seconds relax (repeat 5 times);
• blink intensively for 30-60 seconds;
• choose 2 objects that will be at different distances from you, and then alternately focus your eyes on them.

Conclusion

Unfortunately, many people do not take strabismus seriously, considering this problem purely cosmetic. However, if the disease is not treated, there is a risk of significantly worsening or losing vision. Cope with strabismus is quite possible. For this, conservative and surgical techniques are provided. But even if you decide to deal with the problem at home, do not forget about regular visits to a specialist.

Any person whose eyes squint, or who knows such a person, knows that there are times when the eyes squint less, and often look almost completely straight. If, as is commonly stated, one muscle group was too short and needed to be cut, and the opposite muscle group was too long and needed to be resected, then temporary correction of the strabismus could never occur. Women who have children have told me: "When my child is resting, his eyes begin to look straight. When he is very tired, angry or excited, they begin to squint." Not fully understanding what was going on, they identified the problem: stress!

You can teach taut, convulsively contracted eye muscles to relax. Then the eyes will tend to the correct centering, instead of moving away from it. But this is only the first step in solving your problem. The fact is that the eye, which deviated outward or inward for a long time, got used to seeing with the peripheral part of the retina, instead of fixing the object in question with the macula, its center of vision. To keep such an eye constantly in the correct position, it is necessary to restore vision with the macula until it becomes stronger than the originally formed vision with the edge of the retina, or, as it is often called, the false macula.

After that, one must learn to combine the two images transmitted to the brain by two maculae so that they merge in the brain into one clear image. If the eye has been mowed for a long enough time, then the nerves of its retina may be in a kind of hibernation or have ceased to respond to light. However, doctors believe that if this happens with a good enough eye, then it is often possible to improve the vision of the unused eye, that is, the eye can be taught to see. By closing the stronger eye, relaxing the unused one, and stimulating its retinal nerves with sunlight, many people have been able to develop the macula of the deviant eye to the point where it has the same visual acuity as its stronger counterpart.

Therefore, if you want to get rid of strabismus, you need to go through the following three stages of the program:

1. Relax and release the tight muscles of the eyes so that the eyes can turn together while being in the correct centering.

2. Build vision in its center until it becomes stronger than vision in the false macula. This must be done even with the stronger eye, since the deviating eye may drag the other eye along with it.

3. It is necessary to combine the vision of both eyes, i.e. images obtained in two maculae must be merged together by bringing the same points of the image together at the same time. Once the eyes have achieved this fusion, they will no longer be satisfied with any other vision. Merging keeps them constantly straight.

To illustrate the development of visual power in the macula, I will tell you the story of little four-year-old Betty. The instructor developed the vision in her weaker eye so that she could see with it from 6 inches to 20 feet. One day, the teacher walked 25 feet away from Betty and, picking up a picture book, asked her: "What does this little girl have in her hands, Betty?" She studied the drawing with straight eyes and said, "I can't see very well what is drawn there, but if I cross my eye, I can do it." "No, you don't have to squint your eyes," the teacher said. "I will gradually bring the drawing closer to you until your eye can see it." The child realized that in order to see at such a great distance, his centers of vision are not yet so strong, in contrast to the edges of the retina, which she used all her small life.

When the squinting eyes achieve fusion, the feeling of nervous relief is overwhelming. As one of my students, a lawyer by trade, told me, when he first secured the merger, it was like a new birth.

How to take the first step - relax tense muscles?

A large amount of sunlight falling on closed eyelids will relax tense muscles. The eye is never retracted to the same extent after solarization as it was before it. The sun is a powerful stimulant for weakened or amblyopic retinal nerves. Therefore, daily give as often as possible to the eyes of the sun. A little, but often, the sun is the rule (see the chapter on solarization). After solarization, the tight muscles relax and the eyes are ready to perform turns. Do regularly all the turns described in the second chapter of the book. Add to them the following exercise.

Turns, standing with your back to the sun

You know whether your eye is drawn in or out. If, for example, the left eye squints inward, then stand with your back to the sun, cover the directly looking eye with the palm of your hand and turn your head and elbow in a circle towards the left ear and left shoulder, i.e. to the left, so that the squinting eye can see a glimpse sunlight. Do these turns rhythmically 10-12 times as often as solarizing the eyes. If the left eye squints outward, wanting to catch a glimpse of the sun, it is necessary to turn in the opposite direction, i.e. towards the bridge of the nose (to the right). Remember that this is not a physical exercise, as you do not have to tense your muscles or consciously pull them. Rather, they are gentle relaxation exercises, the action of which is associated with a strong desire of the eyes to see the sun at the end of each of your turns. Do them softly and rhythmically, not abruptly. Each time, the squinting eye will look a little further. If there is no sun, then turn your back to the mirror and catch glimpses of your reflection in the mirror. You can also use some bright light source, imagining that it is the sun.

Airplane turns

If, for example, your left eye squints inward, cover your right eye with a bandage. Stand with your right foot forward. Lean forward and place your left hand on the toe of your right foot, and then point with that hand to an imaginary plane high in the sky to your left. The left hand will then turn 180 degrees up. At the same time, your thoughts should be: "Down to the toe and up to the plane." If you say this out loud, you can be sure that you are breathing deeply. In one approach, it is enough to make from 6 to 12 turns.

If your left eye squints outward, you should point your right hand down at the toe of your left foot and up to the right side at the plane. In other words, control the squinting eye by pointing with your hand in the direction you want to turn it, and using whichever hand is most comfortable for pointing. If the right eye needs to turn, then move the left foot forward for balance. Knowing the direction in which you want to turn the squinting eye, adjust the rotations in such a way as to center it in the desired direction. Leaning forward is an additional help in this process, as it stimulates the circulation of the eyes. This is enough to relax the muscles. Now we will stimulate the macula, or the center of vision.

Let us return again to the consideration of the second stage of the formation of vision in the weak eye. Put a bandage on the stronger eye while walking around your house - first for short periods of time while vision is still developing, and then for a longer time. Do not wear it until you are no longer nervous about it. When you remove the bandage, always palm and, if possible, solarize as well.

Do all the sight-restoring exercises in chapter 3 using only the weak eye and getting it to look at the angle you want to teach it to use. If, for example, the left eye squints inward, then turn your left shoulder at a right angle to the table with words. If he squints outward, then turn the right shoulder towards the table, so that the left eye tends to look in the opposite direction through the bridge of the nose to see the words on the table. At first, sit quite close to the table and slide your gaze back and forth several times under each word or phrase.

And now an exercise that uses reciprocating movements and is designed to stimulate the macula, the center of vision. Make yourself an R N E Chart, described on page 199. For this exercise, hang this chart in good light 3 to 6 feet away from you, depending on the vision of your weaker eye. Cover the stronger eye with a bandage. Pick up some blank unwritten card. You know that the top three letters are R N E. "Write" them in block letters with your eyes on a white card in your hand, using the nose as the lead. Then, taking a deep breath, look at the table in the distance and in the same way "write" them in block letters several times on it. As the letters become clearer, sway this line from side to side, looking from one white box of the table to the next and letting the letters go out of the way of your gaze so that you see first white on one side of the table and then white on the other side. . As you practice, you will get the feeling that they are really moving from side to side. Do palming and solarizing after working with each line. Only work on the line that comes easily to you, but don't work on it for too long. A little, but often - that's your principle.

Another way to develop the nerves of the macula is to learn to read microscopic print. Take the chart entitled "Basics of Vision" at the back of this book. Do all the preparatory part described in the chapter on farsighted eyes, and read this table down with your weak eye as much as you can without effort, while doing short slow turns of the head. If in each lesson you achieve as much relaxation as you need, then every day you will read further and further down. When you can see a few words of microscopic type, it means that you have really become proficient in this matter. Gradually you will be able to read all the words of the microscopic font. When you can read this microscopic font with your weak eye, then you are ready to join the two centers of vision together.

Let's go back to the third step. In order to unite the two centers of vision together without the help of a teacher, you need some kind of device. Get two sticks (dowels) a foot long. Stepping back 1 inch from the top of the sticks, drill a hole in them. Thread a 3-foot-long clothesline through these holes. Make a knot at one end of the rope. Attach a weight to the other end. A tin soldier from a set sold in a store may come up. Now hold the wand on the side of the knot vertically 3 inches from your nose and the other wand 8 inches in front of the first. The tin soldier will hang freely on the far end of the rope. He will keep the rope taut. Slowly move the far stick back and forth (toward or away from the nose), watching how the hole you drilled in the moving stick absorbs the rope as you move the stick towards you. Blink rapidly during this process and don't forget to breathe. Start pulling the rope when the sticks are close enough to each other. Close your eyes and remember what you saw while continuing to move the wand back and forth. Then, with a deep breath, open your eyes and continue your observation again.

Repeat this exercise many times during your workout, palming before and after. If the maculae of each of your eyes are sufficiently stimulated, then one day the rod closest to you at your nose will split in two. Its top will appear split to you, maybe only half an inch at first, but as the fusion improves, the size of the split will increase until it reaches 2-3 inches. We have named these two images "gates". Since I discovered the possibility of using them to improve vision, the results have increased twice as fast.

Until the person with the strabismus achieves one day the vision of the gate, which is the essence of training, and becomes steady in reaching it, the fusion will not be permanent. Palm between each attempt at the gate. When you can achieve and hold them, move on to doing the workout by walking around the room and examining objects between the nearest columns of the "gate". What you see between them will be a single image.

Of course, having an experienced teacher at hand makes it easier to learn the art of fusion, but you can achieve a lot yourself.

The causes of manifestation can be overwork, also factors such as alcohol intoxication, general diseases of the body. Non-permanent strabismus is considered a dangerous disease, since the central nervous system is involved, therefore, when diagnosing a patient, a neurologist also examines it.

For treatment, it is necessary to establish the cause, and then proceed to therapy, which most often includes surgery to restore the optic nerve, and subsequent rehabilitation in the form of eye exercises. The hardware method of treatment is widely popular, because the effect comes quickly.

Sometimes, with this type of strabismus, treatment may be limited to taking strengthening vitamins, but it is impossible to prescribe medications without the knowledge of the doctor, because it is possible only with a specialist to make a correct diagnosis.

baby strabismus

Intermittent strabismus Source: medceh.ru

When a child cannot fix his gaze at the same time, with both eyes, at one point in space, medical specialists can talk about divergent or convergent strabismus in children.

The eyes of a child suffering from strabismus look in different directions, and their line of sight is not parallel. When a child looks at an object with one eye, and his other eye turns to the nose, inward, it is said to converge strabismus.

If one of the eyes deviates to the temple, down or up, while the other continues to look straight, this means divergent strabismus. Sometimes both eyes begin to move away from the line of the object under consideration, in which case it is customary to speak of divergent or convergent alternating strabismus.

Converging concomitant strabismus most often begins to develop in early childhood and often occurs intermittently. Over time, the restructuring of the visual system of the child's body begins, as a result of which part of the field of vision can be eliminated, and strabismus will become permanent and more pronounced.

Inconsistent convergent strabismus most often begins to develop at a very early age. Usually this type of strabismus is present with a high and moderate degree of farsightedness. Converging paralytic strabismus is characterized by the fact that only one eye mows, and eye movements are completely absent or limited towards the affected muscle.

The consequence of this is:

1. double vision
2. binocular vision disorders
3. dizziness
4. forced rotation of the head towards the affected muscle.

This type of strabismus can occur at any age. Also, it can be called:

• poisoning
• toxicoses
• injuries and so on.

Concomitant convergent alternating strabismus usually manifests itself in constantly changing fixation of the eye. In this case, the most squinting eye is called "prevailing". At the same time, vigilance often begins to deteriorate in this eye.

Severe infectious diseases in a child (diphtheria, scarlet fever and others) can also provoke the development of strabismus. For example, after scarlet fever in children, convergent strabismus may well occur.

Why does strabismus affect children?

The reasons for the development of a divergent form of strabismus in a child on the basis of other eye pathologies remain not fully understood. It is noted that the disease can affect babies with impaired refraction of the eyes - that is, with myopia or astigmatism.

In addition, genetics can be the cause. With regard to the gender of the disease, it equally affects both boys and girls. Divergent concomitant strabismus in children often progresses under the influence of the following etiological factors on the body:

1. Neurological pathologies - Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, brain tumors, hydrocephalus, etc.
2. Poisoning at the stage of intrauterine development.
3. Congenital disorders in the work of the visual apparatus - pathologies of the formation of the retina or nerves, cataracts, violations of the attachment and structure of the muscles of the eyes, pathologies of the muscles responsible for eye movements.
4. Diseases of diphtheria, scarlet fever.
5. Physical and psychological trauma.

Classification

Specialists distinguish two forms of this disease: concomitant and paralytic strabismus.
Concomitant strabismus is a pathology in which one or the other eye mows, the amount of deviation of the eye from the “straight” position is approximately the same.

Such strabismus most often occurs in patients with ametropia or anisometropia, while farsightedness is prevalent. Farsightedness often prevails in the case of convergent strabismus, in turn, myopia can be combined with divergent strabismus.

The main cause of concomitant strabismus, as a rule, is ametropia, and the more it is expressed, the greater its role in the development of this pathology. The causes of concomitant strabismus are also:

• the state of the visual system, when the visual acuity of one eye is much lower than that of the other eye;
• diseases of the visual system, leading to blindness or a sharp decrease in vision;
• developing ametropia (myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism);
• changes in the transparency of refractive media (clouding of the cornea, cataracts, etc.);
• diseases of the retina or optic nerve;
• pathology of the central nervous system;
• differences in the anatomical structure of both eyes.

The main signs of concomitant strabismus:

1. when fixing an immovable object, one eye deviates to one of the sides (up, down, to the bridge of the nose, to the temple);
2. intermittent deviations of both eyes are possible;
3. the angle of deviation (primary) of the squinting eye during involvement in the act of vision is almost always equal to the angle of deviation (secondary) of the second eye;
4. the mobility of the eyeball (field of view) is maintained in all directions;
5. lack of doubling;
6. lack of binocular (volumetric, stereoscopic) vision;
7. decreased visual acuity of the squinting eye;
8. developing ametropia of various types (nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism) with different magnitudes (aziometropia).

Paralytic strabismus is a pathology in which only one eye always mows. The main symptom of this type of disease is the absence or limitation of eye movements directed towards the affected muscles, which causes a violation of binocular vision, as well as doubling.

The causes of this type of strabismus are damage to the corresponding nerves or violations of the morphology and functions of the muscles themselves. Such changes are congenital in nature or occur as a result of infectious diseases, tumors, injuries, vascular diseases.

The main signs of paralytic strabismus:

• the absence or limitation of the mobility of the eye directed towards the affected muscles (muscles);
• the primary deviation angle (deviation) is less than the secondary one;
• complete absence of binocular vision, double vision;
• forced abduction of the head towards the affected muscle;
• dizziness.

This type of strabismus can occur at any age. Often, it is provoked by injuries, toxicosis, poisoning, etc.

Intermittent convergent strabismus

The disease may be permanent or non-permanent. The specificity of the disease is already reflected in its name. It is believed that non-permanent strabismus is easier to treat, as it is associated with stressful situations.

As soon as the events that traumatize the psyche come to an end and the emotional sphere of a person comes to order, the intermittent strabismus disappears. Often it occurs with severe ocular infectious diseases or disruption of the central nervous system.

As soon as the disease passes or the functioning of the nervous system is restored, intermittent strabismus disappears again. Monolateral and alternating visual impairment are often confused by people whose activities are not related to medicine.

The first indicates that a person squints one eye, alternating, on the contrary, about violations of binocular vision in both eyes. When a person mows either the right or the left eye alternately, this is an alternating violation of binocular vision.

Depending on the angle of deviation of the eye, there are horizontal, vertical, mixed binocular vision disorders. If a doctor diagnoses a person with esotropia, this means that the patient has convergent horizontal strabismus.

When exotropia is diagnosed, the term does not indicate convergent strabismus, but diverging. The sooner a divergent or convergent strabismus is detected in a person, the more chances he has to get rid of the disease.

Skiascopy, computer refractometry, measurement of the angle of strabismus are capable of timely detecting a converging violation of binocular vision. If there is a suspicion of divergent or convergent strabismus in a patient, he may also be prescribed an additional neurological examination.

The reasons

All the reasons for the appearance of convergent and divergent strabismus are still not clear to science. However, official medicine recognizes that the disease can be inherited. The causes of convergent and divergent strabismus can be genetic abnormalities.

If a woman during pregnancy used some of the painkillers, alcohol, smoked, the likelihood of her having a child suffering from divergent or convergent strabismus is very high. Premature birth is also a risk factor.

If a person was born with a low body weight or had cerebral palsy, the likelihood that he will have convergent or divergent strabismus already in childhood is very high.

Acquired convergent or divergent strabismus develops gradually, without immediately showing its symptoms. What provokes such a process? Its causes may be in the astigmatism that has arisen in a person, myopia, hyperopia.

When a patient has myopia, the risk of this disease increases significantly. Divergent eyes are common in myopia. If a person has or progresses hypermyopia, the eyes, as a rule, are converging.

The mechanism of visual impairment in all, without exception, people is triggered by stress. Often the causes of convergent, divergent strabismus are hidden in them. The nervous system reacts to irritating factors - and a person begins to have health problems.

The reasons why people develop an illness in adulthood are also quite extensive. First of all, most vision problems cause increased stress on it.

Infectious diseases transferred in childhood can remind of themselves in adulthood with various disorders of binocular vision. Cataracts, tumors, cataracts, brain injuries, optic nerve atrophy, retinal detachment, paralysis, eye injuries and myosthenia are all causes of this disease.

Its treatment depends largely on the etiology and specifics of the course of the disease. Divergent and convergent strabismus is various kinds. Diseases are divided according to the degree of severity, the direction of the squinting eye and other signs.

Converging strabismus in a child can be caused by the following reasons:

1. congenital (non-permanent) strabismus - may be present from birth or occur in the first months of life. The reasons are in fetal processes; infectious diseases of the mother or the consequences of microscopic hemorrhage;
2. visual acuity disorders (ametropia), causes - farsightedness, myopia, astigmatism;
3. a consequence of violations of the central nervous system of the child, the causes are cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus;
4. acquired (amblyopia) - past illnesses: diphtheria, measles, influenza, rubella;
5. consequences of fright or severe stress;
6. injuries, fractures, bruises.

Symptoms

The symptoms of strabismus do not bring joy and do not improve well-being in any way. With this disease are noted:

• headache
• incoordination
• double vision
• deterioration and loss of vision
• dizziness, etc.

All these symptoms are observed in children and adults suffering from this disease. Periodically doubles in the eyes and vision is steadily deteriorating. The older a person gets, the more strabismus progresses.

Congenital convergent and divergent strabismus in humans is quite rare. The risk of developing the disease increases as the child grows older. The disease makes itself felt when he reaches the age of 2-3 years.

It was at this time that a person is diagnosed with strabismus, whose treatment begins with conservative methods. Converging and divergent strabismus is closely related to the functioning of the brain. It gets the dual mapping of the object.

And then the central nervous system reacts to divergent and convergent strabismus. By nature itself, it has a mechanism of protection against doubling. The causes of such a phenomenon as doubling are always associated with a disorder in the functioning of the central nervous system.

How does the central nervous system protect the body from this pathology? It begins to suppress, extinguish the signals received from the squinting eye or eyes. The stronger the manifestation of the disease, the more the central nervous system seeks to suppress the signals, and at the same time, the loss of vision accelerates in a person.

Descending strabismus in children of any age is determined by the following signs:

1. the child is not able to direct both eyes at the same time to one arbitrarily chosen point (convergent, divergent or alternating strabismus);
2. unfriendly eye movement;
3. one eye visibly squints or closes in bright light (amblyopia);
4. the child has an involuntary desire to tilt his head at a certain angle to look at an object (hidden strabismus);
5. violation of the perception of the depth of space (the child may fall or stumble on objects).

Preschool and older children may complain of blurred images, eye strain, increased photophobia, or double objects. Symptoms may recur and worsen during periods of increased fatigue or illness.

In newborns and infants, farsightedness, as well as slight intermittent strabismus, is quite common. But since the disease is receding, after 4 - 5 months the eyes are aligned.

Diagnostics

If there is a suspicion that the crumbs mow one or both eyes, check at home. The norm of mobility of the organs of vision is revealed as follows:

• Sit your baby down and keep your head in a fixed position.
• Show him a bright toy and slowly move it at a distance of 30 centimeters from the child's eye from left to right and back.
• The norm is when the object is moved towards the temple - the outer part of the iris touches the edge of the eye, when the pupil moves to the bridge of the nose - there remains a small gap between the inner edge of the eye and the iris.

However, this method can only confirm the paralytic type of the disease. Therefore, the diagnosis of the disease must be carried out by a professional. Usually the first examination of the organs of vision is carried out in a child three months old.

Parents should tell the ophthalmologist about the diseases their child has suffered, about how the pregnancy and childbirth went, if there are any relatives suffering from a similar ailment.

The doctor will examine the baby's eyes, their shape and size, will be able to determine the presence of destructive changes in the lens, cornea, and other eye sections using an ophthalmoscope. It is very difficult to detect strabismus in such crumbs.

The doctor may suggest the Hirschberg technique, which helps to assess the location of the reflection of light on the cornea:

1. If there is convergent strabismus, then the light reflex shifts outward from the center of the cornea.
2. If there is a divergent disease - vice versa, with a vertical one - up or down.
3. Also at three months, skiascopy can be used to assess refraction.

Treatment is rarely prescribed for the youngest patients, usually the ophthalmologist recommends observation and testing after reaching six months. At this age, the baby can already control eye movements, and if there is an ailment, it will be detected.

The doctor will identify the mobility of the eyeballs, conduct a test with a cover, showing if there is heterophoria (hidden disease). With obvious strabismus, the ophthalmologist can already find out its type (friendly or paralytic), as well as its subtype (convergent, divergent or vertical).

Diagnosis of children

Be sure to examine the baby at three years old. After all, some forms of strabismus appear at an older age. Here, visual acuity is additionally measured using tables, and then binocular vision is checked with a color test.

In a three-year-old baby, the disease (converging, diverging or vertical) can be determined using a special apparatus - a synoptophore. It is also used to treat ailments.

But if the baby, before reaching three years old or at an older age, began to close one eye with his palm, began to complain of split vision, looks at objects sideways or from under his brows, you should urgently contact an ophthalmologist.

How to restore binocular vision?

Source: mgkl.ru

Treatment of divergent strabismus, like convergent strabismus, is not only about wearing corrective lenses and glasses. Vacuum ophthalmic massage is considered one of the most effective methods of non-surgical treatment today.

It helps to restore the normal functioning of the eyes if a person has alternating, monoteric strabismus. Of the non-drug methods of treatment, convergent, as well as divergent, impairment of binocular vision is treated with synoptic devices.

Treatment with the help of gymnastics for the eyes dates back millennia and is considered a classic for converging ailments. To eliminate disturbances in the functioning of the eyes, magneto-laser and electrical stimulation is actively used.

Treatment of divergent strabismus in adults is not limited to only one surgical intervention, although convergent binocular vision impairment is also treated surgically. And treatment with the use of accommodation training is also able to bring its effect.

Surgical treatment of strabismus, if conservative methods have failed, can be performed in a child aged 3 years and older. If he has an alternating binocular vision disorder, 2 operations are performed on each eye.

This is due to the fact that surgical treatment in such cases includes 2 stages: first, the function of the oculomotor muscle is weakened, and then it is strengthened. But 100% guarantee the complete cure of the disease with the help of surgery, modern medicine is not able to.

The success of the correction usually does not exceed 80-90%. Surgery also carries its own complications: there is always a risk of bleeding or loss of vision. That is why it is necessary to first apply conservative methods of treatment as much as possible before moving on to surgical ones.

Treatment

It will be much easier to treat non-permanent convergent and divergent strabismus if the process is started in a timely manner. The types of treatment are as follows: conservative (therapy) and surgical (surgery).

The therapeutic method includes special exercises and implies a complex and protracted treatment. Without surgery, strabismus, amblyopia and farsightedness are successfully treated. The main steps in the treatment of strabismus are:

• examination to determine the cause of strabismus;
• preliminary correction of visual acuity (glasses or contact lenses);
• diploptic and orthooptic apparatus treatment (restoration of binocularity);
• elimination of amblyopia (amblyopia - lazy eye syndrome);
• consolidation of the achieved effect.

Hardware treatment

An excellent alternative and addition to eye gymnastics can be treatment sessions with special medical devices. They can be performed both within the walls of a medical institution (devices Sinoptofor, Amblyocor, etc.).

However, visiting eye clinics and vision correction rooms requires a lot of time and costs a lot. Especially in a difficult situation are residents of remote areas.

Operation

The operation will be appropriate only in case of complete ineffectiveness of the therapeutic method. The most favorable period for such operations is the age of 4-5 years. A preschool child is able to follow all the recommendations and perform the necessary orthoptic exercises.

Congenital paralytic strabismus in children with a large angle of deviation, especially vertical diverging-alternating, therefore, surgical treatment of childhood strabismus is carried out at an earlier age.

Surgery to correct strabismus (surgical correction) involves two types of surgical solutions:

1. weakening of the overstressed oculomotor muscle after its intersection or partial excision of the muscle;
2. strengthening of weakened muscles by excision with their further fixation.

Both methods in their pure form are implemented infrequently, since in most cases the symptoms of the disease have to be treated in a combined way. Depending on the complexity of the picture, the desired effect may not be achieved the first time.

In this case, a second operation is prescribed, which is carried out no earlier than in 6-8 months. Sometimes, after surgical treatment of strabismus in children, an acquired specific complication is observed - hypercorrection, resulting from errors in calculations.

At the first stage of surgical treatment, the goal is to remove a cosmetic defect, that is, to cure converging, divergent, less often alternating concomitant strabismus, traumatizing the psyche of a child of any age, after which amblyopia, farsightedness and visual function are treated.

The side effect develops not only immediately after the operation, but also a little later. In this case, the operation is repeated.

ethnoscience

The following methods are effective only at the initial stage.

• Bitter chocolate (with the exception of allergy sufferers and diabetics), 4 pieces 1.5 hours after a meal for a month, a course of 30 days.
• Calamus root powder, stir 1 teaspoon in boiling water, strain through a strainer, drink 1 glass 2-3 times a day, 25 minutes before meals.
• Rosehip, 120 g of fruit pour 1 liter of boiling water. Boil, insist 5-6 hours, add 1 tablespoon of honey, drink 1 glass before meals.
• Leaves of blackcurrant, 10 g of leaves, brew 1 cup of boiling water. Strain through a strainer, drink at any time.
• Freshly squeezed juices, beet and carrot.

The sooner the causes are identified and treatment is started, the more likely it is to be successful! Usually a child attends such a kindergarten with pleasure and desire, because any classes are held in a playful way.

In addition, among their own kind, children feel more comfortable, especially at a time when they need to wear a bandage.

If it is not possible to send the child to such a kindergarten, you do not need to despair and give up, you can conduct classes at home - for example, build from a constructor, collect mosaics, draw a lot, read, etc. It is better to close a healthy eye during the above manipulations with a bandage .

It is useful to teach a child to do eye exercises on their own - to move their eyes to the left and to the right, up and down, diagonally. It is also necessary to rotate the eyes, mow each one in turn, squeeze and then unclench the eyelids.

You need to practice regularly, otherwise you will not be able to achieve positive results. It is very important to monitor the load on the eyes of a child and an adult patient, thereby creating comfortable conditions for the functioning of the visual apparatus.

It is very important to properly organize the load of children and create the right conditions for the work of the visual apparatus:

1. Proper lighting.
2. The desk or table at which the child does homework should be appropriate for the height of the child.
3. Limiting the time a child spends at a computer or TV.
4. A complete diet.
5. Limiting large physical exertion on the body - people with strabismus are not recommended to engage in active sports.

To prevent strabismus, you must constantly take measures to prevent its development. There are special exercises that help to cope with the defeat in the early stages.

Gymnastics

To strengthen the eye motor muscles, experts recommend performing certain exercises:

• raising a hand with an extended index finger and, performing a vertical downward movement, lower it, bringing the finger closer to the nose, and then repeat the same, but horizontally, moving the hand to the side;
• “write” a figure eight with your eyes, make circular movements, then look up and down, left, right.

Very useful will be games with a ball or a shuttlecock. Table and tennis, football, volleyball contribute to the fact that the child follows the moving ball with his eyes, which constantly changes direction, approaches and moves away.

For children of preschool and school age working at a computer, it will be useful to periodically look out the window, look at distant objects, then focusing on something nearby.

Similar exercises are performed daily for 10 - 15 repetitions, in the afternoon or after dinner. If you are not lazy and take the issue seriously, the proposed gymnastics will help cure the disease.

The result of the treatment of strabismus is not only a successful operation, but also perseverance, a desire to recover and, of course, regular daily exercises.

How to fix strabismus without surgery?

The causes of strabismus are lesions of the nervous system in the part responsible for the work of the oculomotor muscles.

Therefore, in order to determine the methods of treating strabismus in adults, it is necessary to find out the features of this unpleasant disease. It’s worth starting with the fact that a person looking at a certain picture sees it with both his right and left eyes. Namely, he sees at the same time, as it were, two images separately.

These two images merge into one in the visual analyzer of the brain. In case of violation of binocular vision (strabismus), the brain is forced to ignore the picture that is sent by the squinting eye, which poses a certain danger to the eye itself, because its visual acuity begins to gradually fall.

As a rule, surgery is aimed at weakening or strengthening the functions of one of the muscles of the eye, which leads to the restoration of balance between the oculomotor muscles.

As a rule, it is impossible to completely restore binocular vision with its help - even after surgery, sessions of hardware treatment (visual stimulation) are necessary to improve results.

Therefore, first of all, ophthalmologists focus on conservative methods of treatment that can help correct strabismus without complicated and risky surgery.

1. alignment of visual axes;
2. eye synchronization;

Prevention

There are a number of rules, the observance of which will help correct concomitant strabismus in children, as well as preschool children and schoolchildren:

• to avoid looking at one point, it is not recommended to hang objects that attract attention near the crib of a child of any age. It is optimal if there is access to the crib from all or at least several sides;
• to prevent farsightedness and imaginary strabismus, rattles in the stroller should hang at arm's length for the baby;
• it is necessary to ensure a uniform load on the eyes of the child, after which the brain will be able to evenly process the signals coming from outside;
• the baby's acquaintance with the TV should take place at the age of not earlier than 3 years with a mandatory time limit at the screen;
• it is not allowed to watch TV lying down: for this you can put a pillow and take a half-sitting position;
• you need to carefully monitor the correct posture, especially at the desktop. Children with poor posture have a habit of leaning low over a table, which can result in amblyopia and farsightedness;
• check and exclude literature with small print from the student's library;
• small pictures and fonts in the monitor overload the eye muscles unnecessarily, so communication with a computer should not begin before 8 years;
• in the presence of a hereditary factor, regular examinations by an ophthalmologist are mandatory;
• protect the child from stress and mental trauma as much as possible.

Sources: lechitnasmork.ru, miroft.org.ua, nechihaem.ru, medoptical.info, vashnevrolog.ru

Can strabismus be corrected?

Strabismus is a problem that most often occurs in preschool children. Do not think that this is just a cosmetic defect. Often the visual acuity of the squinting eye is below normal. With strabismus, there is no joint work of the eyes. Violation negatively affects the formation of the character of the child, and in the future narrows the circle of choice of professions, reduces the ability to work. Of course, the cosmetic side of the problem cannot be discounted, especially for girls. Strabismus can cause a person no less problems than other visual defects.

It has been proven that a person suffering from strabismus is able to get rid of this problem, or at least reduce its severity. How to fix strabismus?

What it is?

Concomitant exotropia

We all look at the world with two eyes, but the brain combines two images into a single visual image. Vision with two eyes, as a result of which our consciousness receives one three-dimensional image, is called binocular. One of the primary conditions for binocular vision is the coordinated work of all eye muscles. Each eye has six muscles that together provide synchronous eye movement. When the direction of gaze changes, both eyeballs make simultaneous movements in the same direction.

Strabismus (strabismus) is a violation of the parallelism of the visual axes, in which it is difficult to fix both eyes on the object of vision.

With a symmetrical position of the eyes, the images of objects fall on the central regions of each eye. In the cortical sections of the visual analyzer, they merge into a single binocular image. In strabismus, fusion does not occur, and the central nervous system, in order to protect itself from double vision, excludes the image received by the squinting eye.

If this state of vision continues for a long time, then amblyopia develops (a reversible decrease in vision, in which one of the two eyes is partially or completely not involved in the visual process).

Types and forms of strabismus

There are two forms of strabismus: friendly and paralytic.

Concomitant strabismus

With this type of pathology, it mows either the left or the right eye, while the deviation from the straight position is approximately the same. Statistics show that most often such strabismus occurs in people with ametropia and anisometropia. At the same time, farsightedness prevails in cases of convergent strabismus, and myopia is combined with divergent strabismus.

Paralytic strabismus

With this violation, one eye mows. The main symptom of pathology is the limitation or absence of eye movements in the direction of the affected muscle, as a result of which binocular vision is disturbed, doubling occurs. The causes of paralytic strabismus may be due to nerve damage or a violation of the morphology and function of the muscles themselves.

These disorders can be congenital in nature or occur as a result of infectious diseases, injuries, tumors, and vascular diseases.

A sign of paralytic strabismus is also the inequality of the primary angle of strabismus (squinting eye) to the secondary angle of deviation (healthy eye).

Forms of strabismus

In addition, experts distinguish the following forms of strabismus:

• converging (the eye is directed to the bridge of the nose);
• divergent (eye directed to the temple);
• vertical (eye squints up or down);
• mixed.

Converging strabismus usually develops at an early age. Most often, this type of strabismus is combined with moderate and high hyperopia.

Divergent strabismus often accompanies congenital or early onset myopia. The reasons for its appearance can be injuries, brain diseases, fear, infectious diseases.

Strabismus may be permanent or appear intermittently. There are also atypical types of strabismus, which are caused by anatomical developmental anomalies (Down syndrome, Brown syndrome, VDD syndrome, etc.)

Strabismus is classified according to several criteria:

• By the time of occurrence: congenital or acquired;
• According to the stability of the deviation: constant or non-permanent.

Varieties of pathologies in strabismus

Causes of strabismus

Strabismus, Heterotropia, Stabilism

The causes of congenital strabismus can be:

• heredity;
• birth injury;
• prematurity.

Acquired strabismus is usually associated with diseases of the central nervous system.. Also the reasons include:

• nervous stress;
• head bruises;
• infectious diseases.

Concomitant strabismus is characterized by the following symptoms:

• when fixing a fixed object, one of the eyes is in a state of deviation in any direction;
• can alternately mow either the left or the right eye;
• no binocular vision;
• decreased vision in the deviated eye;
• the presence of ametropia.

With paralytic strabismus, only one eye constantly mows. The main symptoms of such strabismus are:

• limitation or absence of movements of the slanting eye in the direction of the action of the affected muscles;
• forced deviation of the head towards the pathological muscle;
• the primary deflection angle is less than the secondary one;
• the presence of constant or periodic dizziness;
• lack of volumetric vision.

Sometimes strabismus does not appear immediately, but, for example, in the late afternoon, during the period of activity of the child. The defect can appear periodically, and parents, as a rule, think that the child is indulging, and sometimes do not pay attention to it.

Strabismus requires immediate correction. The results depend on the timeliness of treatment.

Diagnostics

Strabismus in a child or adult can be determined during an ophthalmological examination by a doctor. Diagnostics includes:

• visual acuity test;
• determination of eye refraction with wide and narrow pupils;
• determination of range of motion, eye position and angle of strabismus;
• study of volumetric vision;
• examination of the fundus, anterior segment and conductive media of the eyes.

In the process of examining children, the ophthalmologist first interviews the parents in order to determine when and under what circumstances strabismus was noticed, how it manifested itself: suddenly or over a certain period of time. Congenital pathology is usually associated with fetal trauma during childbirth or diseases of the central nervous system. The acquired form is associated with refractive errors.

With strabismus, the ability to see normally only retains the eye that provides vision. The eye that squints to the side sees worse and worse with time, its visual functions are suppressed. Therefore, it is important to start treatment as early as possible.

Strabismus treatment involves a comprehensive approach and may include:

• optical correction (glasses, lenses);
• treatment of amblyopia of the eye with the help of hardware procedures;
• development of binocular vision;
• consolidation of the achieved monocular and binocular functions;
• surgery.

The operation is resorted to mainly to achieve a cosmetic effect, since by itself it rarely restores binocular vision. The surgeon determines the type of operation already directly on the operating table, since here it is necessary to take into account the peculiarities of the location of the muscles in a particular person. One or both eyes are operated on. Surgery is aimed at strengthening or weakening one of the muscles that moves the eyeball.

The surgery to correct strabismus is performed in one day under local drip anesthesia. The recovery period takes about a week, but after such a surgical operation, doctors recommend a course of hardware treatment for optimal restoration of visual functions.

Strabismus Exercises

The tasks of gymnastics for the eyes with strabismus (nearsightedness, farsightedness and other types of visual deviations) include. complete relaxation of the eye muscles, focusing the gaze on one point, combining two pictures. If at the final stage it was possible to achieve a combination of two pictures, then we can talk about victory over strabismus.

Each of the exercises below should be repeated at least 16 times.

1. Put your hand forward and fix your eyes on the index finger. Bring your finger closer to your eyes, without taking your eyes off, and remove it. Repeat the same, lowering your hand down and raising it up.
2. Move your eyes to the left- to the right, then up - down, drawing the figure eight with your eyes.
3. Keep your eyes on moving objects, such as a ping pong ball.
4. Look long into the distance, through the window. Then focus your eyes on nearby objects.
5. Stand with your back to the sun, close your healthy eye with your palm. Then turn your head towards the squinting eye until it sees the sun's rays. Return to the starting position and start moving again in the same rhythm (at least 10 times). No need to turn your whole body or jerk your head, because the goal of the training is to treat the eye, and not strengthen the muscles of the body.
6. If the left eye squints to the bridge of the nose, close the healthy right eye. Extend your right leg forward and touch your toe with your hand. After that, in an inclination, raise your hand, as if pointing to the sky on the left side of the body.
7. If the left eye squints at the temple, push the left leg forward and stretch the right hand to the toe of the left foot. Point with your hand to where the affected eye should turn. If the right eye squints, the left leg should be put forward. Tilts are necessary to increase the movement of blood in the eyeballs.

Gymnastics with strabismus

A necessary condition for obtaining the effect of exercises for the eyes is their regular implementation.

Complications

Strabismus cannot go away on its own. Moreover, if left untreated, serious complications can develop. That is why when the first signs of strabismus appear, you should immediately consult an ophthalmologist.

With strabismus, work is disrupted in almost all departments of the visual analyzer, so the treatment should be comprehensive.

On the squinting eye, visual acuity gradually decreases, that is, amblyopia develops. This, in turn, leads to even greater deviation from the norm. Thus, a vicious circle is started.

Prevention

The main way to deal with strabismus is early diagnosis. Required:

• mandatory early examinations of children, more frequent - in children at risk(parents with visual impairments, birth trauma, etc.);
• annual medical examination;
• observance of norms and rules of hygiene of sight.

If glasses are prescribed for a child, it is necessary to wear them in the recommended mode and visit an ophthalmologist every six months in order to prevent the development of strabismus and amblyopia in time.

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So, strabismus in children and adults is not only a cosmetic defect; This is a pathology leading to a further decrease in vision and the development of other eye diseases. If you notice that your child sometimes squints with one eye (or both), be sure to rush to the doctor. Strabismus in adults is a disorder that can be corrected.

Is it possible to correct strabismus in adults?

Contrary to popular belief that strabismus is a childhood disease, it is also quite common in adults.

Concomitant strabismus in adults is a separate clinical form, either occurring too late or resulting from the absence or untimely treatment of the disease in childhood. As a rule, in adults it is unstable.

Intermittent strabismus, in view of the periodicity of its manifestation, raises doubts about the need for a surgical operation. The operation also cannot be recognized as a necessity in the presence of binocular vision.

That is, the correction of strabismus in adulthood does not always require the mandatory intervention of a surgeon, since surgery is necessary only as a last resort, with high degrees of vision deviation. Moreover, its goal is to eliminate a pronounced cosmetic defect, without a therapeutic effect.

The main objectives of the treatment of strabismus in adults are considered to be:

• alignment of visual axes;
• eye synchronization;
• prevention of visual impairment.

Often, adult strabismus is caused not by relapses of a childhood disease, but by injuries that lead to the onset of acquired, paralytic strabismus.

Before starting treatment, the ophthalmologist identifies, among other things, concomitant diseases and possible pathologies of the visual system, and finds out their causes. The presence of acquired injuries necessarily requires a consultation with a neurologist.

Treatment of strabismus in adults is a rather lengthy process and can last several years. At the same time, preventive measures are likely to continue throughout life.

The main stage of treatment for the patient is the selection of special glasses, as well as an individual set of exercises, which is aimed at developing weakened eye muscles.

Strabismus Exercises

Hardware treatment

However, technology does not stand still and today patients with strabismus have access to portable and affordable devices that can be used at home. One of the most effective medical devices for stimulating vision is the Vizulon apparatus.

Vizulon is a device based on an innovative, science-based method of color therapy. It consists in the impact of different sizes and colors of light pulses on the human organ of vision.

During such sessions, there is a complete relaxation of the muscles of the eyes, or vice versa, they are given a certain load, which is necessary for the treatment of adult strabismus.

The device "Vizulon" has successfully passed clinical trials and has proven itself as an effective means of combating refractive errors (nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism) in adults and children, as well as binocular vision disorders (amblyopia, strabismus).

Just 2 sessions performed daily with this medical device can help get rid of strabismus without surgery. True, as in the case of eye exercises, the use of Vizulon should be regular and long-term.

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Often parents notice that the child's eye has begun to mow. Parents should contact an ophthalmologist in a timely manner for treatment and restoration of visual functions. After examining a small patient, the doctor makes a diagnosis. Parents have a natural question - how to correct strabismus?

If parents notice the first signs of strabismus, it is urgent to contact a specialist and undergo an examination.

Causes of occurrence, methods of treatment

There are several reasons for the occurrence of strabismus: weakening of the oculomotor muscles, disruption of the visual apparatus, deterioration in the vision of the eye. To find out if strabismus can be corrected, you need to understand the causes of development. Distinguish strabismus hidden and explicit.

Hidden - heterophoria, does not require surgical treatment, is detected by separating the visual fields. The patient is covered with a scapula of the eye, after a while it is removed and assessed, the installation movement. The patient has orthophoria, when there is no installation movement. If there is, then esophoria is distinguished - the eye is set towards the temple and exophoria - is set towards the nose. Symptoms of latent strabismus: headache, fatigue of the eyes or one eye.

It appears in people who have binocular vision, but the oculomotor muscles do not work quite correctly. Since the eyes do not work in the same way, temporary double vision may occur, and complaints of eye fatigue may occur, especially when working close. Correction of this type of strabismus is corrective glasses. The spectacle lens will fix the eye in the right direction, and asthenopic complaints will disappear.

Heterophoria has a primary and secondary form of strabismus. Primary - an independent form of the disease of the oculomotor system and the organ of vision. Treatment requires special methods. Secondary - one eye cannot participate in binocular vision due to corneal clouding or retinal damage.

Imaginary strabismus occurs when human eyes are set wide or close. It looks like the eyes are squinting. Seen in many people. It does not need to be corrected, since the ability to simultaneously see with two eyes keeps them straight and does not deviate.

Explicit - heterotropia, associated with a visible deviation of the eye towards the temple or nose.

According to the stability of relapses, permanent and periodic strabismus are distinguished. Periodic, associated with a temporary failure in the work of the fusion and a short evection of one eyeball, say from excitement. The medicine for strabismus in this case is only training to increase the resources of binocular vision. The permanent one is associated with the derivation of one eye from the point of fixation of the object united with the other permanently, which disrupts stereoscopic vision and requires special types of therapy for various concomitant and paralytic strabismus.

Concomitant strabismus

Mostly observed in children. This pathology affects the development of the organ of vision, the behavior and perception of the world of a small person. The baby is more likely to be injured. With concomitant strabismus, the eyeballs move absolutely along all the meridians of the orbit. As one muscle functions more strongly, ocular mobility is increased. There is no doubling in patients. Violation of bifixation, the ability to fix a point with both eyes, develops when there is a malfunction and development of the motor and sensory systems of the eye.

Types of concomitant strabismus

1. accommodation
2. Partially accommodative
3. non-accommodative

How to treat strabismus associated with accommodation? Correction is prescribed with glasses with plus lenses, to unload the eye when working close. Surgical methods are used extremely rarely. Concomitant strabismus occurs in 25-40% of preschoolers and children of primary school age, treatment with glasses has a favorable prognosis.

Only a specialist can explain what symptoms are associated with concomitant strabismus.

There is monolateral and alternating strabismus. In the first case, one eye is squinted, in the second both alternately. Amblyopia contributes to the appearance of concomitant strabismus - without visible organic causes, vision in one eye is reduced. In the presence of amblyopia, the eye that sees worse gradually becomes squinting, the brain continues to ignore it, and central vision fades. To understand how to get rid of strabismus complicated by amblyopia, the doctor determines what it is connected with.

Treatment should begin with the selection of the optimal correction of ametropia with glasses. Next, binocular vision should be restored, namely, the ability of the visual analyzer to merge into a single whole the information received separately from each eye. The first treatment program for concomitant strabismus is pleoptics. It combines a lot of procedures to combat amblyopia. Key methods:

1. Penalization - worsen the visual acuity of the better seeing eye.
2. An occluder is applied to a better seeing eye - direct occlusion.
3. Local illumination of the retina - stimulation of the central fovea of ​​the macula with light.
4. The laser beam irritates the central fovea of ​​the retina.

1. Reverse occlusion - the worse seeing eye is closed with an occluder.
2. General illumination of the retina.
3. Structured retina light is used in the form of game programs on a computer.
4. Reflexology.
5. Application of the device "Illusion"
6. Lessons with dosed visual loads.

Orthoptic treatment - a set of measures for the development of binocular vision, is the second treatment program. The child must be aware of what is required of him, so it is advisable to prescribe treatment from 3-4 years of age. Orthoptic exercises with the help of game computer programs give a positive result.

The final step in the treatment of squinting eyes are exercises for the development of fusional reserves, if the reserves are limited. Certain exercises are also used to develop stable fusion. The treatment is carried out on a special device, which has a lens that can smoothly magnify the image, and is equipped with a biprism of variable strength, to increase the tolerance of the prism load.

A positive result in concomitant strabismus is given by special exercises.

Treatment of strabismus in adults is a longer process that may not lead to full restoration of correct vision. The main causes of strabismus in adults are a significant deterioration in visual acuity in one eye and impaired function of the oculomotor muscles after a stroke. Symptoms of strabismus can be obvious, as well as clinical, clarified during the conversation: the patient feels doubling of the object in question; he wants to narrow his eyes in order to better examine something; I want to turn my head to make the double vision go away.

A doctor treating strabismus in an adult first tries to eliminate the causes that led to the deviation of the visual axis of the eye. He decides whether the existing type of phoria can be cured without the use of surgery. Hardware treatment of strabismus is used to normalize binocular vision, as well as to help remove the habit of looking with one eye. The patient is assigned certain exercises to train weakened muscles.

Paralytic strabismus

Due to apoplexy of one or more muscles of the eye, it may deviate towards the nose or temple. With paralytic strabismus, a person develops diplopia - doubling of objects. It is extremely hard to be tolerated by a person, occurs simultaneously, violates the orientation of the patient in space. Patients reflexively find a certain position of the head when the double vision disappears. This forced position is called ocular torticollis.

Treatment of strabismus in adults does not always lead to a complete restoration of correct vision.

How to remove a squinting eye, if conservative methods of treatment do not help, do an operation. Surgical treatment consists of either resection of the weakened or paralyzed muscle, or weakening of the antagonist muscle. Indications for surgery are determined strictly individually for each patient together with the relevant specialists: neuropathologist, oncologist and ophthalmologist.

Prevention of strabismus consists in a timely visit to the ophthalmologist for any visual impairment or eye disease. Preservation of visual hygiene - compliance with the lighting regime, the distance to the working text and the time of work near. The risk group includes children whose parents have strabismus and ametropia of high refractions. Particular attention should be paid to working on a computer. Now there are no monitors that emit electromagnetic radiation, but LEDs have appeared, they are used in digital devices and are harmful to the retina.

The development of modern medicine is rapid. Every day, new devices for diagnosing and treating diseases are invented and improved. No conspiracy from strabismus will help like a timely appeal to an ophthalmologist. A potion for strabismus will probably be developed sooner or later, but for now it is treated in most cases by training and surgery. How to cure strabismus in adults is not such a difficult question.

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Contrary to popular belief that strabismus is a typical childhood disease, it is also quite common in adults.

The causes of strabismus are often based on disorders of the nervous system in that part of it that is responsible for the operation of the ocular muscular system.

In order to find out how to treat strabismus in adults, it is necessary to determine the features of this unpleasant disease.

Let's start with the fact that a person, when looking at one picture, sees it with his right and left eyes separately, that is, he, as it were, sees two images at the same time. The brain is forced to ignore one of the pictures, which poses a certain danger to the second (squinting) eye, whose visual acuity begins to gradually decrease.

Concomitant strabismus in adults is a separate clinical form, either occurring too late, or resulting from the absence or untimely treatment at an early (childhood) age.

Inconsistent strabismus in adults, due to the inconsistency of its nature, causes a feeling of uncertainty about the need for a surgical operation.

The operation cannot be recognized as a necessity even in the presence of binocular vision.

Correction of strabismus in adults does not require mandatory surgical intervention, since surgery is resorted to only as a last resort. Moreover, patients need the operation more as a cosmetic product, and not as a medical one.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to completely correct strabismus (restore binocular vision) today.

The main purpose of the operation is to weaken or strengthen one of the eye muscles, which will restore the correct balance between the eye motor muscles.

Symptoms of strabismus in adults

There are also other symptoms of strabismus:

• double vision;
• squinting;
• a constant tilt or turn of the head.

The eyes seem to float apart from each other. This phenomenon, quite common in childhood, causes the most serious anxiety in an adult. If in a child, due to his increased adaptation of the brain to physiological changes, strabismus usually successfully passes, then in adults strabismus can continue for many years, gradually intensifying.

How to cure strabismus in adults

The main objectives of treatment:

• alignment of visual axes;
• eye synchronization;
• maintaining the quality of vision.

Often, adult strabismus is not a recurrence of a childhood disease, but injuries and, accordingly, acquired, paralytic strabismus.

Before treatment, the ophthalmologist tries to get rid of various concomitant diseases, reveals any causes of the disease and disorders in the visual system. The presence of acquired injuries requires mandatory consultation with a neurologist.

The treatment of strabismus in adults can take several years, and preventive measures will most likely have to be continued for the rest of your life.

First, special glasses and an individual set of exercises are selected for the patient, aimed at developing weakened muscles.

If this therapy is not successful, then the doctor may prescribe a surgical operation.

Prevention of strabismus in adults

Preventive measures usually include:

• regular consultations with a doctor;
• respect for the organs of vision;
• protection against injuries and infections;
• mode of work at the computer;
• refusal to read books in public transport.

How to fix strabismus in adults without surgery

Contrary to popular belief that strabismus is a childhood disease, it is also quite common in adults.

The causes of strabismus are lesions of the nervous system in the part responsible for the work of the oculomotor muscles. Therefore, in order to determine the methods of treating strabismus in adults, it is necessary to find out the features of this unpleasant disease.

It’s worth starting with the fact that a person looking at a certain picture sees it with both his right and left eyes. Namely, he sees at the same time, as it were, two images separately. In one, these two images merge in the visual analyzer of the brain. In case of violation of binocular vision (strabismus), the brain is forced to ignore the picture that is sent by the squinting eye, which poses a certain danger to the eye itself, because its visual acuity begins to gradually fall.

Concomitant strabismus in adults is a separate clinical form, either occurring too late or resulting from the absence or untimely treatment of the disease in childhood. As a rule, in adults it is unstable.

Intermittent strabismus, in view of the periodicity of its manifestation, raises doubts about the need for a surgical operation. The operation also cannot be recognized as a necessity in the presence of binocular vision.

That is, the correction of strabismus in adulthood does not always require the mandatory intervention of a surgeon, since surgery is necessary only as a last resort, with high degrees of vision deviation. Moreover, its goal is to eliminate a pronounced cosmetic defect, without a therapeutic effect.

As a rule, surgery is aimed at weakening or strengthening the functions of one of the muscles of the eye, which leads to the restoration of balance between the oculomotor muscles. As a rule, it is impossible to completely restore binocular vision with its help - even after surgery, sessions of hardware treatment (visual stimulation) are necessary to improve results. Therefore, first of all, ophthalmologists focus on conservative methods of treatment that can help correct strabismus without complicated and risky surgery.

The main objectives of the conservative treatment of strabismus

The main objectives of the treatment of strabismus in adults are considered to be:

• alignment of visual axes;
• eye synchronization;
• prevention of visual impairment.

Often, adult strabismus is caused not by relapses of a childhood disease, but by injuries that lead to the onset of acquired, paralytic strabismus.

Before starting treatment, the ophthalmologist identifies, among other things, concomitant diseases and possible pathologies of the visual system, and finds out their causes. The presence of acquired injuries necessarily requires a consultation with a neurologist.

Treatment of strabismus in adults is a rather lengthy process and can last several years. At the same time, preventive measures are likely to continue throughout life.

The main stage of treatment for the patient is the selection of special glasses, as well as an individual set of exercises, which is aimed at developing weakened eye muscles.

Strabismus Exercises

The tasks of gymnastics for the eyes with strabismus are as follows: first you need to achieve complete relaxation of the muscles of the eyes to ensure their joint movement, then you need to focus your eyes on one point, then you should try to combine the two pictures seen by each eye separately. If you combine the pictures, in the process of doing gymnastics it turns out, we can talk about victory over strabismus.

1. Put your hand forward and fix your eyes on the index finger. Bring your finger closer to your eyes, without taking your eyes off, and remove it. Repeat the same, lowering your hand down and raising it up.
2. Take your eyes as far as possible to the left - to the right, then up - down, draw a figure eight with your eyes.
3. It is very useful to follow moving objects with your eyes, for example, a ball when playing ping-pong. It is especially useful to watch from the side of the player how the ball moves away and approaches.
4. If you need a long visual load, you need to look into the distance from time to time, through the window. Then focus on nearby objects.
5. Stand with your back to the sun, covering your healthy eye with your palm. Then start turning your head towards the squinting eye until it sees the sun's rays. Return to the starting position and start moving again in the same rhythm (at least 10 times). No need to turn the whole body or jerk your head, because the goal of the training is to treat the eye, and not to strengthen the muscles of the body.
6. When the left eye squints to the bridge of the nose, close the healthy right eye. Move your right leg forward and reach your hand to her toe. Then, in an inclination, raise your hand, as if pointing to the sky on the left side of the body. Repeat the exercise 6-12 times. When the left eye squints to the temple, you need to push the left leg forward and stretch the right hand to the toe of the left foot. Accordingly, it is necessary to point with a hand where the affected eye should turn. If the right eye squints, the left leg should be put forward and so on. Tilts are necessary to increase the movement of blood in the eyeballs.

A necessary condition for obtaining the effect of performing exercises for the eyes is their regularity.

Hardware treatment

An excellent alternative and addition to eye gymnastics can be treatment sessions with special medical devices. They can be performed both within the walls of a medical institution (devices Sinoptofor, Amblyocor, etc.). However, visiting eye clinics and vision correction rooms requires a lot of time and costs a lot. Especially in a difficult situation are residents of remote areas.

However, technology does not stand still and today patients with strabismus have access to portable and affordable devices that can be used at home. One of the most effective medical devices for stimulating vision is the Vizulon apparatus.

Vizulon is a device based on an innovative, science-based method of color therapy. It consists in the impact of different sizes and colors of light pulses on the human organ of vision.

During such sessions, there is a complete relaxation of the muscles of the eyes, or vice versa, they are given a certain load, which is necessary for the treatment of adult strabismus.

The device "Vizulon" has successfully passed clinical trials and has proven itself as an effective means of combating refractive errors (nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism) in adults and children, as well as binocular vision disorders (amblyopia, strabismus).

Just 2 sessions performed daily with this medical device can help get rid of strabismus without surgery. True, as in the case of eye exercises, the use of Vizulon should be regular and long-term.

Vizulon with strabismus (video)

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If strabismus is detected in adults, treatment is prescribed immediately, using modern equipment and sophisticated techniques. It should be considered in detail what caused strabismus in adulthood, its main manifestations, common methods of treating pathology.

The mechanism of strabismus formation in adults

Strabismus (strabismus) is a visual defect in which, due to dysfunction of the eye muscles, desynchronization of eye movements occurs when the direction of gaze is directed.

With strabismus, the eyeballs can be independent of each other and each of them can deviate to the right, left, down or up. Another name for this disease is heterotropia. It can affect one or both eyes and is often the cause of various visual disturbances.

The coordinated and stable work of the eyeballs in an adult is ensured by a complex mechanism that includes the oculomotor muscles, which are connected via nerve endings to a specific area of ​​the brain.

With this pathology, the brain receives various images from the left and right eyes, which are unable to generalize and process. As a result, one of the images is accepted, and the other is discarded as unnecessary.

The source of the unaccepted image begins to lose its main functions over time, and its complete degradation sets in - amblyopia. A possible outcome of such a condition of the diseased eye is progressive strabismus.

Change in adult vision with strabismus

Strabismus classification

Classification of strabismus is often carried out by specialists in the following significant areas:

• congenital or acquired;
• friendly or unfriendly.

In medicine, cases of congenital heterotropia are extremely rare. Such a pathology in the fetus begins its development in the womb. An eye defect in an infant is often associated with an infectious disease suffered by his mother in the last stages of pregnancy, her use of potent drugs or drugs. Acquired strabismus occurs most often in everyday life.

A friendly type of pathology is assessed depending on the angle of deviation of the squinting eye from the focus axis. With this type of pathology, the angle of deviation of the healthy and diseased eyes is the same, the eyeballs are mobile.

Despite significant eye disorders caused by the disease, the image entering the brain is perceived adequately by it. The diseased eye defect is actively compensated by the healthy eye. In this case, the aesthetic side of the issue delivers the most trouble.

Types of strabismus

Ophthalmology distinguishes the following groups of a friendly type of strabismus:

• accommodation;
• non-accommodative;
• mixed.

The most common is the accommodation group of strabismus. It includes pathology of horizontal, vertical and mixed type. Accommodation is the ability of the eyes to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Any of its types can be called alternating strabismus. This is due to the alternation of a squinting eye with a healthy one.

With unfriendly strabismus, the eyes deviate from focus at different angles. Often this pathology is associated with paralysis of the oculomotor muscles. In this case, the eyeball of the diseased eye is immobilized.

To correctly prescribe the treatment of strabismus, the ophthalmologist must clearly determine the type of pathology. It is worth noting that friendly types of strabismus are more likely to be cured in relation to the rest.

Causes and symptoms

The causes of strabismus should be analyzed more specifically. As is known, the indicated defect of vision can be attributed to a congenital or acquired form.

The appearance of congenital strabismus can be triggered by:

• various anomalies of embryonic development;
• infectious diseases of the mother, transferred during the bearing of the child;
• premature labor activity;
• serious genetic diseases;
• congenital cataract.

Can congenital strabismus be corrected? No, this pathology cannot be cured. Modern medical science is working to alleviate the patient's condition, eliminate the aesthetic defect.

Causes of pathology in adults

The most common type of disease is acquired strabismus. Common causes of strabismus in adults should be listed:

• farsightedness or high myopia;
• astigmatism;
• cataract;
• thorn;
• benign or malignant tumor of the retina;
• serious brain injury;
• atrophy of the optic nerve;
• paralysis of the muscles of the eye;
• high intracranial pressure;
• neuroinfections (meningitis, encephalitis, etc.);
• severe psychological conditions;
• fright, etc.

Strabismus of this type is well studied and can be easily corrected. Many are interested in the question of how people with strabismus can see the world around them. Such patients often perceive any image in a bifurcated form.

Symptoms of concomitant strabismus

The definition of this pathology in adults is not difficult. Its visual signs should be considered:

• deviation of the eye or eyes towards the bridge of the nose or towards the temple;
• non-simultaneous movement of the eyeballs;
• split in the eyes;
• frequent squinting;
• tilting or turning the head to try to examine the subject, etc.

Signs of paralytic strabismus

Additional symptoms of strabismus:

• frequent headaches;
• dizziness;
• decreased visual acuity;
• nausea and vomiting;
• memory problems;
• vestibular disorders, etc.

If you notice signs of strabismus in yourself or a loved one, you should immediately consult an ophthalmologist. If such a patient is not provided with timely qualified assistance, then the disease will progress. Over time, the squinting eye will lose the ability to see.

Diagnosis and conservative treatment in adults

To prescribe effective treatment for strabismus, a complete ophthalmological examination is necessary. How to determine strabismus in a patient who applied for an appointment?

Diagnosis of this pathology includes:

• collection of anamnesis, during which the dependence of the development of strabismus on past diseases is established;
• visual examination, during which the palpebral fissures, facial symmetry, the position of the eyeballs are examined;
• visual acuity check with correction;
• study of clinical refraction;
• a special test for strabismus;
• determination of the angle of deviation of the squinting eye;
• measurement of accommodation volume, etc.

In some cases, consultation with a neurologist is necessary. After a complete examination and diagnosis, the treatment of strabismus is selected taking into account the individual characteristics of each patient.

The nature of the manifestation of pathology

Important tasks in the treatment of strabismus are:

• correction of visual axes;
• strengthening the eye muscles;
• restoration of synchrony of eye movements;
• maintaining visual acuity.

Treatment of strabismus will largely depend on the cause of the pathology. Physicians distinguish common methods of treating the disease:

• therapeutic;
• surgical.

How to get rid of strabismus with therapeutic methods? In this case, complex treatment is used, including:

• optical vision correction;
• hardware impact;
• normalization of binocular vision;
• special exercises.

Optical vision correction involves specially selected glasses, contact lenses, which are necessary to maintain the functionality of the squinting eye. Be sure to perform special exercises to relax the eye muscles and fix the eyeballs in the desired position.

Correction of strabismus is impossible without hardware improvement of the visual functions of the eye. For this purpose, a laser beam, electricity, etc. are used. The use of hardware action restores the functionality of the diseased eye, restores normal image perception.

Orthoptic treatment serves to normalize binocular vision. For this purpose, patches of a healthy eye are used. The brain begins to work with the diseased eye, slowly restoring its functions.

Patching a healthy eye to correct strabismus

Surgical treatment of strabismus

How to cure strabismus in adults with surgical methods? Indications for surgical intervention in patients with strabismus are:

• retinal disinsertion;
• thorn;
• cataract;
• failure of conservative treatment;
• aesthetic goals, etc.

Surgery is performed in several stages, under local or general anesthesia. Can strabismus be treated on the operating table? Operations are based on the regulation of the functions of the oculomotor muscles by strengthening or weakening them.

To enhance the action of the muscle, it is shortened (resection), and to weaken it, it is recessed (transplanted). There are other methods of surgical intervention. Rehabilitation is carried out under the strict supervision of a specialist and lasts approximately 2 weeks. There is a small risk of postoperative complications.

Surgical intervention to correct the pathology

Treatment of strabismus by surgery is most often carried out in order to correct a cosmetic defect. But to restore binocular and deep vision, to eliminate amblyopia, long-term postoperative therapy is necessary. It involves exercises to train the muscles of the eyes, specially selected glasses, a course of hardware exposure, etc.

In cases where the cause of strabismus is another eye disease (cataract, cataract), surgery is performed to eliminate it. Glasses or lenses are required to correct various accommodation disorders.

The criteria for a positive outcome of the operation to eliminate strabismus are the symmetrical position of the eyes, the restoration of binocular vision.

How to remove paralytic strabismus? In this case, surgical intervention will not be able to restore the functionality of the eyes, but is aimed only at eliminating a cosmetic defect.

Individual calculation of muscle length correction in strabismus

Prevention

Any disease is easier to prevent than to treat. Strabismus prevention involves following a few simple rules. These include:

• regular medical examinations by an ophthalmologist;
• exclusion of infectious diseases by increasing immunity and timely treatment;
• observance of the mode of alternation of a moderate load for the eyes with a period of rest;
• preventing reading while driving, driving;
• creating a gentle mode of work in front of the computer;
• performing special exercises for the eyes;
• protection of the body from various brain injuries;
• control of blood pressure, with its increase, the adoption of the necessary medicines;
• eradication of bad habits that negatively affect the functioning of the organ of vision;
• wearing goggles to protect the eyes from sunburn;
• taking special medicines for the eyes as a precautionary measure in case of serious chronic diseases (diabetes mellitus) that can adversely affect vision;
• balanced nutrition enriched with vitamins A, C, E;
• protection of the fetus during pregnancy from various adverse effects.

An easy way to avoid strabismus is to take care of your health, be in harmony with yourself, and have a positive attitude towards the world around you.

Prevention of the development of pathology

Conclusion on the topic

Thus, strabismus is a serious eye disease that requires professional correction by an ophthalmologist. Only a qualified specialist will tell you how to correct strabismus and maintain good eye health for many years.

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If, when looking at some object, the optical axes diverge, and the synchronism of the location of the pupils is disturbed, then eye pathology begins to develop. Divergent strabismus causes both eyeballs, when focusing on a particular object, to be located with a deviation from the central position. At the same time, it mows one or two eyes at the same time.

Strabismus is not just a defect in the appearance of a person. Deviation provokes violations of the functions of the visual apparatus. In patients, the picture of the images is distorted, so the analyzer brain center does not perceive it as it should be. Due to the decrease in visual acuity, the necessary balance between the eyeballs and the motor muscles is also disturbed. In children, divergent strabismus can inhibit development, so often in young patients there is a lag in both physical and mental development.

Reasons: why does eye pathology develop?

As a rule, mainly strabismus develops inside the womb of the mother of the unborn child. Very rarely, it occurs as a result of factors provoking an acquired pathology. Divergent strabismus appears for the following reasons:

• Disease of the central nervous system, in which the structure of the eyes deviates from normal;
• Damage to the optic nerve fibers, retina;
• Different visual acuity;
• Diseases that cause blindness or impair the functionality of the visual apparatus very quickly;
• Tumors of the eyes, brain, nasopharynx, ears.

To identify permanent exotropia, you need to know the symptoms. The main manifestations of pathology are:

1. When the patient looks at one point, his eyes deviate from each other towards the temple;
2. The mobility of the eyeballs is not impaired;
3. There is no doubling of objects, binocular vision;
4. The mowing organ, in comparison with a healthy one, does not see so well;
5. Very rarely, a concomitant deviation develops with a violation of binocular vision.

In adults, there is a paralytic form of strabismus. In such cases, one eye is in a stable position, and the other is skewed. The affected organ of vision does not move towards the damaged oculomotor muscles. Patients begin to see double images, and experience dizziness.

Concomitant strabismus leads to the fact that patients mow both eyes. In this case, the pupil is shifted from the central point by approximately the same amount. Mows the left, then the right eye.

Intermittent divergent strabismus in children

In another way, the pathology is called exophoria. In babies, there are slight deviations of the eyeballs towards the temple. But, since the non-permanent form of strabismus is characterized by periodic disturbances in the location of the pupils when examining the central object, it can be detected under the following conditions:

• If symptoms of intoxication develop in the body, it is weakened and cannot control the organs of vision;
• When a child looks into the distance;
• In strong light.

Gradually, the symptoms of intermittent divergent strabismus in children become more pronounced. Sometimes it becomes permanent. The main causes of pathology are weakness of convergence or excessive divergence.

Treatment

If vision disorders are diagnosed before the age of seven, then treatment does not require surgical intervention. The prognosis of complex therapy is often favorable. But even after 7 years, there are chances for a complete recovery of the patient. The cure for strabismus depends on the severity of the pathology and the ability to perform surgery.

Conservative treatment in children and adults is carried out by different methods:

1. Vision correction with the help of glasses (sometimes this is enough);
2. Orthoptic treatment with eye patches.

If such methods did not help to cure strabismus, then surgical intervention is prescribed.

It is very important that the child feels comfortable among other children. Therefore, in kindergartens of a special profile, it will be easier for him to wear a bandage for orthooptic treatment, without embarrassment and without hearing ridicule. If it is not possible to visit such institutions, then exercises for the visual apparatus should be done at home. In this case, a healthy eye is closed with a bandage.

As the child develops, parents or specialists should teach him to independently perform gymnastics for the eyes. He can move his eyeballs in different directions, mow them in turn, strongly compress / unclench the eyelids. Exercises should be performed regularly, only in this case the results will be visible.

It is also important to create a comfortable load on the eyes. In order for the visual apparatus to function without overstraining, it is necessary to maintain the following conditions:

• Select lighting;
• Patients should be seated at a table that is appropriate for their height and does not force them to lean too close to or away from the surface;
• Do not stay too long at a computer or TV monitor, limit the period of time spent on the same type of activities;
• Eat right, eating foods that improve metabolic processes in the eyes;
• Do not overexert your body with exercise.

After achieving certain results, it is necessary to carry out the prevention of divergent strabismus. For this, there are special gymnastic exercises.

If therapeutic methods of treatment do not have a positive effect, then surgery is recommended. The optimal period when surgical intervention will be most favorable is the age of four to five years. Young children already know how to listen and follow the instructions of doctors, but do not go to school yet, so they are not overstrained with daily responsibilities.

With congenital divergent strabismus with large angles of deviation, the operation is done even earlier. Surgery can be done in different ways:

1. During the operation, the tension of muscle tissues is weakened;
2. On the contrary, weakened muscles are strengthened.

Both methods are usually combined, since eye diseases rarely occur in a pure form of weakening or tension of the oculomotor muscle tissues. Also, the operation can be carried out in several stages, since there are times when the first intervention does not have the desired result. A second procedure is scheduled six months after the first one.

First of all, the operation is aimed at eliminating the visual defect, and only after that other problems are treated - farsightedness / shortsightedness, amblyopia, etc. In rare cases, even after surgery, children have a complication. Then divergent strabismus turns into hypercorrection, which occurs due to incorrect calculations. Side effect may appear immediately or some time after surgery. It is removed surgically.