Astigmatism in childhood. How to detect it

When a child has a vision disorder, it is important to be aware of the signs, since children have difficulty expressing their reduced vision. How to detect that the child has astigmatism? It is very common for this disorder to go unnoticed because children can not compare their current vision abilit

When a child has a vision disorder, it is important to be aware of the signs, since children have difficulty expressing their reduced vision.

How to detect that the child has astigmatism? It is very common for this disorder to go unnoticed because children can not compare their current vision ability with the correct one.

Symptoms of astigmatism in childhood

Astigmatism is a vision disorder that occurs due to the shape of the eye. Sometimes it is not totally oval and is a little more flat in one area than in another.

- When children grow up and have to put into practice skills such as reading or writing is when they realize that, for example, do not see the things that are written on the board. Además - In addition, parents can begin to observe winks of the eyes or even twist their heads to try to find the area or the way they can see better.

- In cases of high astigmatism graduations children can even have very strong headaches that are totally caused by these uncorrected astigmatisms.

- Other symptoms are itchy eyes or seeing the child with red eyes when it is not a case of conjunctivitis.

Early diagnosis of astigmatism in children is very important and for this the specialists make tests such as corneal topography, which indicates the shape of the eye.