Like any other disease, adult strabismus has symptoms. It is not necessary to visit an ophthalmologist to understand that a person has strabismus. First of all, you need to pay attention to the words of the people around you. If many people say to a person that he looks somehow strange, you need to think about it.
Reasons
Squint is a violation of peripheral vision, or rather, a violation of the position of the eyes. In such cases, one or both eyes deviate from a straight path.
Doctors have identified two types of strabismus: friendly and paralytic. With friendly, the eyes deviate alternately, usually at the same distance.
Paralytic strabismus is characterized by the fact that the eye is limited in movement, statically fixed in the wrong position, due to infringement of the optic nerve. Often, an eye surgeon is needed to correct this type of strabismus. As a rule, surgical interventions in this case fix the problem forever.
Depending on the causes, strabismus in adults is treated with different methods.
Causes of congenital strabismus
Squintis innate. In such cases, the reasons may be:
- diseases of the central nervous system;
- congenital difference in the anatomy of the eye;
- ocular neuromuscular damage.
Causes of acquired strabismus
The causes of the acquired disease include:
- vision problems that are ignored (farsightedness, nearsightedness);
- a sharp decrease in vision of the right or left eye;
- anisometropia;
- strokes;
- psychic trauma.
Symptoms
Symptoms of this disease can be pronounced:
- Usually, this is evidenced by the pupil. It may be tilted strongly towards the temple or the bridge of the nose.
- Man often has to squint when looking into the distance.
- If a person sees double when looking at a stationary object.
- The person's head is slightly turned or tilted when looking.
At the same time, other symptoms may occur:
- Dizziness.
- Difficulties with determining the distance between objects.
All these symptoms indicate the initial development of strabismus or, on the contrary, that the disease is in a neglected state. If this disease in a person is in a neglected state, the people around him will immediately notice this disease and will be able to point it out to him. A person suffering from strabismus has to constantly tilt his head so that the object does not double in his eyes.
Types of strabismus
The medical term strabismus (in everyday life strabismus) is understood as an ophthalmological problem when the eye's visual eye axes have a different direction. Types or types of strabismus depend primarily on the axial orientation, how long ago the disease manifested itself, and how long it lasts.
There are the following types of strabismus:
- Divergent and convergent (the most common). In the first case, the eye axes are directed away from each other, in the second, they converge on the nose. Both of these types belong to the horizontal type of strabismus. The type of strabismus, when the eye visual axes are directed vertically, one up, the other down, is called vertical.
- There is also circular strabismus, in which the visual axes are rotated clockwise or counterclockwise relative to each other.
- Friendly, in which the mismatch of the axes of the eyes is fixed. In this case, the gaze is directed in one direction.
- Paralytic, developed after injury or illness.
In addition, depending on the period of occurrence, strabismus is divided into acquired during life and congenital, permanent or occurring periodically. Depending on accommodation (the ability to increase the power of refraction when moving the eyes from distant objects to nearby ones), strabismus is divided into 3 types:
- accommodative (fully corrected with special glasses);
- partially accommodative (can only be partially corrected);
- non-accommodative (cannot be corrected with glasses).
There is a type of strabismus known as monolateral (right or left sided) strabismus, where only one eye is affected. If strabismus periodically changes its location, then we are talking about alternating strabismus. It should be noted that special glasses help to correct vision only with alternating strabismus. This is not possible with monolateral.
Surgical treatment
If the usual methods for a year do not bring results, it is necessary to treat strabismus in adults with an operation. This disease manifests itself in an adult due to the inability of the brain to quickly adapt. As a result, a person can often see double vision, and one eye begins to see objects poorly.
Don't delay as traditional lens treatment may not work. In this case, surgical treatment of strabismus in adults is used, which can be classified into two types:
- Regular operation. At the same time, it is very rarely used, since injuries can remain after it, and the rehabilitation course takes a very long time. This operation allows you to strengthen or weaken the functions of the muscles of the diseased eye. This is done in order to correct strabismus. Depending on the complexity of the disease, the type of operation is selected. In addition, the traditional operation is expensive. For surgery on one sore eye, you will have to pay 46,000 rubles. Conventional surgery helps 90% of the time.
- Surgery with lasercorrection is another method of treating strabismus in adults. It is most often used to treat patients suffering from this disease. He is considered the most forgiving. The degree and type of intervention is selected individually for each person. Different types of equipment can be used during laser correction. Laser correction helps in 95% of cases. Such an operation costs even more. Its price starts from 65,000 rubles for one sore eye.
Conventional surgery for the treatment of strabismus in adults and laser correction can eliminate the disease. These methods make it possible to cure only 90% of patients out of 100 from strabismus.
Hardware treatment
Many are interested in the question of whether it is possible to treat strabismus already in an adult, and if so, what methods of treatment are offered by today's medicine. The question, no doubt, is quite sensitive, and of course, I would like to consider all the pros and cons of certain procedures.
The main task of an ophthalmologist is to improve or restore the lost ability of the eye to focus on the image properly. A consultation with a good eye surgeon will shed light on your particular situation - which treatment is right for you. After all, you always want to achieve maximum results without surgery.
Hardware treatment of latent strabismus in adults is one of the ways to influence the perception andfocusing the image in a non-surgical way. World ophthalmology massively practices this type of strabismus correction. This method is good in that it does not require surgical intervention, but treatment with the help of Synoptofor requires serious concentration from the patient. After all, much depends on him.
The device transmits independent images to the patient's left and right eyes, the patient's task is to learn how to combine them into one. For example, if a person suffering from strabismus looks at a flower in a pot, one of his eyes fixes the pot, and the other - the flower. The treatment of strabismus with the help of the device almost always ends in success.
The course of treatment lasts a total of 10-20 days, and the session - from 40 to 70 minutes. It all depends on the complexity of each individual case and the perception of the patient. With a persistent approach, this type of treatment leads to excellent results and corrects all unpleasant dysfunctions of the optic nerve, restores the elasticity of the visual receptor lost under various circumstances.
This method can be used to treat divergent strabismus in adults and its other types.
Pencil exercise
Treatment of strabismus in adults at home is through exercise. Similar procedures are intended for people with strabismus (heterotropia). Classes are based on the fact that a person with a disease focuses and follows a small object (pencil or finger). For this, the patient is seated on a chair, stand in front of him at a distanceoutstretched hand and begin to drive from his nose to yourself with a finger, pencil, etc.
A person dealing with a sick person should watch his eyes. In this case, both eyes should move towards the nose when performing. If one of them deviates from your side, start the exercise again. So you need to practice for 5-6 minutes a day.
Treatment with light
Future training is to turn your eyes to the rays of any light source (preferably the sun). Let's give an example, with strabismus of the right eye, it is required:
- turn around to face the light;
- close he althy eye with hand;
- turn your head to the right side and try to see the rays of the light source.
You can replace the sun with improvised devices. You can use a candle, reflection on a mirror surface, or another sparkling object.
You need to close your eyes. How to do it? With palms crossed in the form of a roof, you need to close your eyes. The eyeball should be in the center of your palm. The nose should be between your palms. If you open your eyes, then the light should not fall through your fingers. In other words, there should be no gaps.
Geometric shapes
There is another no less effective way, but more interesting for both children and adults. To complete the exercise you will need:
- Sheet of paper (blank).
- Pencil.
- Assistant.
Let's start. Draw squares of the same size on the sheet and in thesesquares, draw simple geometric shapes (circle, oval).
The main thing is that each figure has a pair at least. You can draw and 3-4 pieces. The main thing is the variety of figures. Pass this sheet to the patient and give him the task - to find all the repeating figures. This exercise forces the human eye to focus on one point.
Prevention
In order not to have to treat strabismus, it is better to prevent its development. To do this, it is recommended to follow simple rules:
- Timely and correctly treat diseases of the nasopharynx.
- If you have high blood pressure, check your blood pressure regularly and take medication if necessary.
- Patients with pathological changes in the eyes and people with diabetes need to take drugs that will prevent vision deterioration.
- Quit smoking and drinking large amounts of alcohol, as these habits can cause chronic diseases that affect vision.
- Reduce eye strain.
- Be examined by an ophthalmologist 2-3 times a year.
- Do exercises for the eyes, observe hand hygiene, choose the right glasses and contact lenses.
- Do not read on your phone or tablet while in public transport as eye strain and frequent shaking contribute to the development of strabismus.
- Eat foods rich in vitamins, especially carrots and blueberries.
Reviews on the treatment of strabismusin adults only positive. Especially effective therapy with a laser and surgery. Strabismus does not go away on its own, and improperly performed treatment or its complete absence often causes a catastrophic deterioration in vision.
