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Pre-schoolers
need eye exam
September is National SightSaving Month, and this year the Virginia Affiliate of the National Society to Prevent Blindness is emphasizing the need for parents to schedule a professional eye exam for their preschool-aged children.
“Parents should be aware that some forms of childhood eye problems, such as emblyopia or ‘Lazy Eye’ can virtually steal a child’s sight if not diagnosed and treated before the age of six,” said Roland Pitts, program director of the Virginia Affiliate.
The National Society to Prevent Blindness estimates that as many as 10,400 preschool-aged children in Virginia have some sort of vision problem, and a significant percentage of those cases are undiagnosed.
According to Mr. Pitts, “Amblyopia is a robber of sight and the most common cause of uncorrected visual problems in young children.” It affects 2 to 4 percent of all American children - most often between three and five years of age, when they are too young to realize what they should be able to see.
What an amblyopic child does see is a normal world through one eye and a blurred world through the other. Amblyopia accompanies a, number of other vision disorders such as crossed eyes or nearsightedness, which causes the eyes to see with different degrees of clarity. The brain accepts the clear image and suppresses the distorted view, with the result that one eye is not stimulated to develoo DroDerlv.
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