If this is not your name, click here. Other Ophthalmic Surgery Organ Transplantation Orthopaedics Other Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Otitis Otorhino. Many of those vision disorders run in families. When one sibling has an eye problem, there is a greater risk of other children in the family being similarly affected. Unfortunately, even when there is a strong family history, many children with vision problems are not diagnosed until it is too late for effective treatment.
Early intervention is the key to success.
Amblyopia, which strikes an estimated 205,000 American children every year, can develop rapidly in the first three years of life. This leading cause of vision loss in children is best treated during infancy or early childhood. Beyond age six, correcting amblyopia takes longer and is less effective. The vision tests primary care physicians usually perform on children too young to read eye charts frequently miss serious eye disorders. Until now, the only way to effectively screen children ages three and under for certain vision problems was through an ophthalmic exam involving eye drops and restraints.