The eyes are the most important organ, and if any problems arise, they will lose their color and be occupied by darkness in their future lives. Especially for infants, it is very important to pay attention to eye protection from an early age. Some parents, when taking care of their babies, may experience a situation where the baby's eyeballs shake and the head is constantly shaking. They do not understand why the baby's eyeballs shake and the head is constantly shaking?
What's going on with a baby's nystagmus and constant shaking of the head
A baby with nystagmus often shaking their head is likely to have nystagmus disease.
Generally speaking, the main causes of nystagmus are hypoxic damage to the brain and certain congenital abnormalities. Especially during pregnancy and childbirth, due to hypoxia in the uterus, fetal brain hypoxia, or factors such as prolonged labor, difficult labor, or birth injuries, can all cause nystagmus in children. Eye tremors are easily detected by parents because their eyeballs cannot be fixed, shake back and forth, tilt their heads to one side, and have poor vision. If the above situation occurs, parents should take their baby to the hospital for examination and early treatment.
What are the treatment methods for nystagmus
At present, there are two main treatment methods for nystagmus: one is to improve vision as much as possible, and the other is to improve eye position.
Children with nystagmus often have refractive errors and amblyopia, and often have lower monocular vision, while binocular vision is better than monocular vision. Therefore, when checking vision, not only should the vision of one eye be checked, but also the vision of both eyes should be checked; When checking monocular vision, a highly farsighted spherical lens can be added in front of the other eye to reduce the shaking of the tested eye and facilitate the detection of better vision. At the same time, the patient's vision can also be checked at a certain extraordinary eye position, such as the vision at an angle to the head. So while treating amblyopia, it is also necessary to consider the angles of eye and head positions, and surgical treatment can be performed if necessary.
If you find any problems with your baby's eyes, be sure to go to the hospital for examination in a timely manner to understand what causes the baby's nystagmus and constant shaking of the head? This can effectively suppress the progression of the disease towards a more serious direction. This is a matter that concerns a lifetime, and we must not slack off. Even a small problem should be taken seriously to avoid more terrible things happening.
