Treatment of Strabismus

In people in a healthy lifestyle, both eyes work both in parallel and in harmony with each other. Disruption of this parallelism over the eyes due to a number of internal and external causes is called strabismus. In a person called a squint, one of the eyes looks straight, while the other eye slides either upward, downward, inward, or outward.

How Is Strabismus Treated?

The primary goal of treatment is the preservation of the sense of sight. At the same time, it is necessary to put the eyes back in a parallel position, that is, to eliminate strabismus. This treatment is called the provision of binocular vision. Some things are important in treatment. For example, with the age at which the shift began, as well as whether it is in both eyes or in one eye. Along with all these findings, the refractive errors found in the diagnosis are of great importance in determining the form of treatment.

The most common treatments for strabismus are;

1. Glasses,
2. Eye exercises,
3. Prismatic glasses,
4. Performing botox injections the muscles outside the eyes,
5. It can be listed as strabismus surgery.

A person at a young age who has a shift in his eye and also has an eye disorder, first of all, glasses treatment is performed to correct the refractive error. Because many eye shifts fall into the group of strabismus called acomodaphic, which can be corrected with glasses. In this type of eye shift, the shift is eliminated by using glasses.

It is observed that the eyes of the patient wearing glasses have a round and parallel shape. But in some cases, when the glasses are removed, the eye shifts again. It is known that surgical intervention is not performed in this group of patients, glasses are used to treat this type of strabismus.

Orthoptic therapy is also a method used to treat strabismus. The purpose of this method of treatment is physical therapy the eye muscles. The treatment is performed on some of eye muscles. The goal is to strengthen the ability to see in both eyes. With this treatment, the eyesight in both eyes is strengthened and the feeling of depth is fixed and restored. This method of treatment is very important both for the eyes to stand in parallel and in everyday life.

How Is Surgical Treatment Applied in Strabismus?

Shifts that cannot be treated using glasses are shifts that generally require surgical intervention. These shifts in the eye usually occur around the age of 2 or 3 years. This operation is an operation performed using general anesthesia. Complications such as infection or bleeding may also occur.

What Are the Types of Strabismus?

Strabismus is divided into types such as paralytic, that is, the sliding angle is different in each direction, and non-paralytic, that is, the sliding angle is the same in each direction.

The type of strabismus also has a variety that can be used alternately in one eye, that is, only one eye, or in both eyes, called alternan, depending on the fixation condition of the eyes.

In addition, it can also be divided into types depending on whether it is treated with glasses or surgery.

How Is Strabismus Diagnosed?

The diagnosis of strabismus is made by performing some tests. Diagnosis can also be made by the inspection method. In this method, when the patient is looking straight, the relationship of both eyes to each other is observed. In addition, the patient is also examined whether the eye movements are appropriate and harmonious by looking up and down to the right and left. In addition, in order to make a diagnosis, either a light test or a turn-off test is applied to the patient depending on the situation.

In which patients can strabismus be applied?

In the strabismus group that needs surgery, the use of glasses due to eye disorder does not cause any effect on the angle of strabismus. It does not change its angle. In the treatment of this type of strabismus, surgical intervention is absolutely essential. As a method of treating this type of strabismus, it is necessary to know that the person who will undergo surgical intervention, if glasses are worn before the intervention, should also wear them after the intervention.

This operation is an operation performed using general anesthesia. Complications such as infection or bleeding may also occur. Strabismus surgery, which is both a reliable and accepted method, has been used in medicine for more than a hundred years.