MANY parents do not realize that a little baby eyelashes inward, is one sign of trouble began to overshadow their baby’s eyesight. Identify problems early so that treatment can be immediate action taken.

In the medical field, this state is called the epiblepharon, ie lower eyelid abnormalities. In this disorder, there is excess skin folds on the bottom edge of the eyelid nata causing eyelashes towards the cornea. This disorder can be easily found on the oriental races, but it was likely occurs in other races.

Epiblepharon can cause serious disturbances in vision. Patients usually complained of watery eyes are often red, glare, until he rubbed his eyes frequently or often blinking.

When epiblepharon left in the long term, can cause serious problems on the cornea a very disturbing sight, among others, epiteliopati form of white patches on the epithelium of the cornea, corneal erosion, corneal infections, and also iregularitas cornea that causes Astigmatism or better known as cylinder.

Epiteliopati corneas or corneal surface is not smooth is usually visible on examination as a color photo that are not evenly distributed. If at the initial examination, there are no abnormalities in the cornea and the patient has not reached the age of two years, doctors will provide conservative therapies, such as artificial tears or eye gel, the use of plaster on the lower eyelid to hold the lashes in order not on the cornea, and follow up regularly to observe whether there is any corneal abnormalities or there is a change Have experience in facial bones, especially around the eyes with increasing age of patients under the eyelid crease to normal.

If since the beginning of the examination has found the damage, then the operative procedure should be done even if the child has not reached the age of 2 years. Surgery aimed at preventing further damage to the cornea, correcting the fold, while improving the eyelashes.

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