Blindness In Childhood - How to prevent it
Blindness In Childhood - How to prevent it |
Definition:-
- Unable to go alone in an unknown street even with the aid of a spectacle.
- Unable to do occupation which involves direct vision.
- Unable to count fingers of an open hand on a black
background at more than a distance of one meter."
causes of childhood blindness
- Congenital syphilis
- measles
- Conjunctivitis
- Onchocerciasis
- Trauma
- Ophthalmia neonatorum
- Trachoma and glaucoma
- Myopia
- Keratomalacia
- Congenital.
how to prevent blindness
1. Good environmental sanitation.
2. Adequate immunization.
3. Treat causes at an early stage. Regular ophthalmology consult.
- Conjunctivitis = Saline irrigation and antibiotics
- Trachoma = Chloro & Oxy - tetracycline
- Onchocerciasis = Diethylcarbamazine
- Keratomalacia = Vitamin A.
- Ophthalmia neonatorum = 1% AgNO3 eye drop at birth.
- Cataract = Needling and aspiration or extraction.
- Glaucoma = Diamox tablet; Pilocarpine Eye Drop or surgery.
- Send the child who is blind to a special school to learn brail writing
They can attain any height in education using brail. Such children are however advised against studying the sciences.it is advisable to pay more attention to childhood blindness so we can eradicate blindness in children in our society.
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