Vision problems
Disease Information
Overview
There are two types of eye disorders that can affect your child’s vision: refractive errors and non-refractive errors.
- Refractive errors, such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, crossed eyes, and lazy eye, are seen in almost 20 percent of children.
- Non-refractive errors include glaucoma, cataracts and retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the retina.
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