amblyopia – Agashe Hospital

Squint in Normal Children

Post author:Plus91
Post published:May 3, 2018
Post category:for doctors

3rd May 2018: We are glad to introduce to you our latest initiative – Pediatric Pearls. With this, we hope to keep giving you little clinical tidbits related to pediatric super specialties that you will definitely find useful in your practice. This week we focus on squint – we all know that Squint may be normal in the initial few months. But did you know how common it could be? (more…)

Amblyopia due to Unilateral Cataract

Post author:Plus91
Post published:August 1, 2017
Post category:for doctors

1st August 2017:

We all know how the brain shuts down erroneous inputs coming from an eye ultimately leading to blindness in that eye. But did you know that the amblyopia developing in kids with bilateral cataract progresses differently than that of unilateral cataract?

It is important for parents of kids with unilateral cataract to know that they should seek treatment at the earliest rather than waiting for the cataract ‘to ripen’.

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