?What are the risks of not treating squint

Squint affect life in different ways, for example

1. Causes cosmatic concerns.
2. Squint often causes psychological complications, especially in children and women.
3. Abnormal positions of the head and face are subconsciously adopted in children having paralytic extraocular. This position can damage the neck vertebra for a lifetime.
4. Headaches, dizziness, and difficulty due to moving words while reading are common symptoms of this disease. Their squint affects the performance. Children have apprehension from reading. People start avoiding work while they do not even understand the reason of the discomfort!

?Is it possible to cure squint

Most patients can be treated. Treatment is related to the defect. If the eye’s performance is defected due to some treatable reason and we repair that defect in some way, it will decrease the squint. For Example:

1. If the patient also have cataract, and cataract surgery is performed, it will improve the squint also.
2. If a patient is having refractive error and is advised spectacles but does not use the spectacles. If the patient starts to use the spectacles gradually, the squint will also improve.
3. Similarly, if the muscle is paralyzed or congenitally weakened, it is often possible to improve its performance by exercises or by prisms. This will reduce squint.

?What methods are used to eliminate the defect of squint

As the treatment depends on the cause of the squint, so different methods of treatment are used. Below are some examples of treatment methods

1. If the muscle of the eye becomes weak, then if the operation is done to make it smaller, then the squint disappears.
2. If the eye muscle has shrunk, then by operating and lengthening the muscle, makes the eyes straight.
3. If the eye that is not functional due to amblyopia, itreated amblyopia treats the squint. t
4. There are some squint patients who benefit a lot from certain exercises.
5. Many squint patients straighten their eyes just by wearing glasses.
6. There are some patients with squint who benefit from medication.

?What causes squint

Allah Almighty has given us two eyes. When we look at something, both eyes automatically turn to that thing; how? If for some reason the coordination of these two eyes is impaired and they cannot move in the desired coordinated manner, then squint appears. As seen in the pictures below

?How do the eyes move in so many different directions

How does the eye move? Allah Almighty has placed six muscles in each eye; each muscle has its own specific functions. Moving in certain directions will be either due to this muscle or with its help. Thus, when both eyes are pointing in a certain direction, the twelve muscles are actually engaged in their work. This is happening as a result of their great sophisticated and balanced interaction. If for some reason even one muscle loses this balance, Then the eye develops squint. The pictures below show the muscles that are responsible for the movement of the eyes in different directions.

?Why do eye movements become incoherent

1. The brain cannot maintain the balance in movements of both eyes.
2. The performance of one eye may be impaired for some reason such as cataract, retinal detachment, vision of one eye is naturally impaired and weaker than the other, etc.
3. If one or more of the twelve muscles become ill and do not work properly, such as some muscle is paralyzed, some muscle is poorly developed, some muscle is injured, etc.

The pictures below show the different stages of the operation.

In this picture, the contracted muscle is cut out of its place and folded slightly backwards, which in practice gives the same benefit as if it had been lengthened.