For parents, a child of any age seems vulnerable, so adults take care of him, they want protection from all difficulties. Unfortunately, a person is not strong and some diseases are very dangerous for the life of children. Some pathologies pass quickly and affect the future life, otherwise others will significantly affect the future life of the child. In order to reduce the impact of pathologies on the child's body, it is possible to diagnose the disease in the early stages, it is necessary to identify and immediately begin treatment. Among these diseases are ophthalmic we can not do without the introduction of diseases. If a child has vision problems from an early age, it can lead to a delay in the development of the child in the future. Ophthalmic diseases the main part: eye injuries, glaucoma, cataracts, glaucoma, retinopathy, myopia, cataract diseases, etc. More than 20% of diseases in ophthalmological practice, depending on the injury, damage the orbit and the eyeball. From an eye injury, then in 13% of cases, subatrophy of the eye develops, in 25% anophthalmos may occur. As for the characteristics of injuries, 10% of children suffer from damage to the organ of vision. This leads to various pathologies of the eye, in 30-60% of cases it can lead to one- or two-sided blindness. The most important traumatic factors in children are: knives, bullets, stones and clubs, hockey sticks, spears, nails, wire, etc. Glaucoma is one of these diseases. The disease also requires special attention. Reason: Prevalence of glaucoma in children Occurs in 1:10,000-1:12,000 cases. Its share in eye pathology is 0.1%. enough. More than 75% of glaucoma cases are bilateral. In parallel, there was glaucoma in 5 to 15% among children, blind and non-blind schoolchildren. Blindness in children, the proportion of this pathology ranges from 2 to 15%. in the Russian Federation Congenital glaucoma accounts for 10.1% of childhood blindness.
