Pediatric ophthalmology is the specialized part of children’s vision problems. Therefore, prevention and early detection of eye pathology in childhood is very important. The visual acuity of a child’s eye improves from birth.
At the age of 3 his visual acuity reaches 50%, reaching 100% at the age of 5. For this reason, the first years of life until the age of 7 or 8, are crucial for a correct visual development. During this period of life it is essential to detect anomalies that prevent a normal visual evolution and anomalies that if not detected in time could cause irreversible consequences for life.
The pediatric ophthalmologists of this unit are in charge of detecting these disorders. They insist that not only is the role of the doctor important, but also that of the parents, who play a transcendental role because they are the first ones who can detect in their child signs that something is not working well, and they must evaluate in time that their child needs an ophthalmologic checkup.