Bayron Daniel is a 9-year-old boy native to the Cristo Rey sector, in the National District. At his young age he was diagnosed with myopia in the left eye, caused by frequent use of screens such as tablets, cell phones or televisions, appliances where he usually enjoys his favorite dolls.
This October 19, which commemorates the International Day of the amblyopiaalso known as lazy eye, Byron was treated at the Institute Against Blindness for Glaucoma (Incocegla), institution that is responsible for following up on your condition to find a solution.
For Dr. Haronid Vargas, deputy medical director of Incoceglathe use appliances prolonged use of technology or without parental control, has a drastic impact on vision of the childrendue to the proximity of these devices to the face.
Already Bayron use glasses for several years, according to his mother, Yasmel Bueno. The ophthalmologists of Incocegla They assure that this disease is correctable, however, they ask for greater moderation in the use of appliances at home.
Dr. Vargas explains that prevalence general of amblyopia occurs in the age range of 0 to 8 years, the same period in which the eye is developing. This Saturday, more than 200 children consulted, 2.2% presented this condition.
Another 11-year-old minor, Yeudy Rosario, was also warned for the same situation in the Incocegla. This preteen was scheduled for several appointments to closely monitor his situation.
“To my girl, Alanna Zabala, they ordered him to place glasses and he had an eye allergy. This may be due to the use of tablets“, according to what the doctors told me,” says Luisa Gil, his mother.
“If you use more vision close when the eye is growing, then the brain automatically understands, that the vision nearby is the primary one and this is causing a pandemic of myopiawho are people who are not seeing well from a distance,” explains the deputy director of Incocegla.
Given this, the institution against blindness stimulates parents to control the use of tablets in their children.
He states that the American Academy of Pediatrics has a schedule for the use of tabletsfrom an age.
“We are recommended before the age of three to use tablets and from three years old it should be used with schedules daily markings. In addition to encouraging children have activities recreational outside the houses, to stimulate their vision distant,” says Dr. Vargas.
World statistics
The statistics worlds reflect that the population childish affected is between 1% and 6% of children and up to 5.49% in the case of adults.
He incocegla seeks to educate the public about this condition and highlight the importance of evaluations regular ophthalmological children.
The statistics of patients attended so far this year in the Incoceglareflect a population of 158,400 patients. Detecting a prevalence general of amblyopia of 0.5% in which the age range with the highest incidence has been from 0 to 8 years, corresponding to 2.2% of the population consulted.
Subspecialist Considerations
· A assessment and diagnosis at an early age (before the age of 7) allows the child to achieve a vision normal and healthy, because the vision It develops in the first years of life.
· The deviation ocular or strabismus, refractive errors (myopiafarsightedness and astigmatism) and opacities such as congenital cataracts, can cause amblyopia or lazy eye.
