{"id":137,"date":"2013-07-15T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T09:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2020-12-16T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T10:25:44","slug":"strabisme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/20-maladies-frequentes\/strabisme\/","title":{"rendered":"Strabismus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Strabismus is a defect in the parallelism of the visual axes.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">Strabismus is named according to the direction of deviation of the visual axes: <strong>convergent<\/strong>, <strong>divergent<\/strong> or <strong>vertical<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Strabismus in children (a child who \u201ccrosses his eyes\u201d) is overwhelmingly a convergent strabismus appearing from birth to the age of 5 or 6 years.<\/p>\n<p>Divergent strabismus often appears later (between 6 and 10 years).<\/p>\n<p>Strabismus disrupts vision and its development.<\/p>\n<p>In normal vision the eyes are straight when they fixate on the same point and thus the brain can transform the two images into a single three-dimensional one.<\/p>\n<p>In strabismus there is deviation of one eye (either inwards: convergent strabismus, or outwards: divergent strabismus), 2 different images are therefore transmitted to the brain, the patient sees double or neutralizes (suppresses the image perceived by the deviated eye).<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">In young children, due to this early neutralization, the brain suppresses the 2nd image, which leads to a loss of vision in this deviated eye and therefore amblyopia (the eye becomes lazy), which is important to detect early in order to begin possible <strong>rehabilitation<\/strong> treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><strong>Accommodative convergent strabismus<\/strong>: particularly affects <strong>hyperopic<\/strong> children aged 2 years and older.<\/p>\n<p>A child has a significant accommodation capacity which can cause him to \"squint\". In this case, glasses can reduce this accommodation effort and thus allow the eyes to straighten.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><strong>Divergent strabismus<\/strong> is later:<\/p>\n<p>It occurs when the person is tired, those around them notice an eye that deviates outwards, which can sometimes cause double vision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Treatments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First of all, do an examination under Skiacol (especially for children) to determine whether or not corrective lenses are needed.<\/li>\n<li class=\"translation-block\">Then an <strong>Orthoptic Assessment<\/strong> carried out by an orthoptist will qualify and quantify this deviation and its repercussions on vision.<\/li>\n<li class=\"translation-block\">We can then undertake prevention or, if necessary, rehabilitation of <strong>amblyopia<\/strong>, which will consist of hiding the healthy eye in order to make the so-called \"lazy\" eye work; sometimes sectors (opaque bands on the periphery of the glasses lenses) are indicated.<\/li>\n<li class=\"translation-block\"><strong>Orthoptic rehabilitation<\/strong> can help compensate for certain types of strabismus (intermittent strabismus).<\/li>\n<li>The installation of prisms to eliminate double vision in certain cases.<\/li>\n<li>Surgery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le\u00a0strabisme\u00a0est un d\u00e9faut de parall\u00e9lisme des axes visuels. On nomme les strabismes en fonction du sens de la d\u00e9viation des axes visuels:\u00a0convergents,\u00a0divergents\u00a0ou verticaux. Le strabisme de l&rsquo;enfant (enfant qui \u00ablouche\u00bb) est tr\u00e8s majoritairement un strabisme convergent apparaissant de la naissance \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 5 ou 6 ans. Les strabismes divergents sont souvent d&rsquo;apparition plus tardive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":102,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137\/revisions\/1902"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vision-laser.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}