This specialty treats the visual problems from birth through adolescence.
It is important to remark that human sight consolidates definitively between the 7th and 8th year of life.
Some of the diseases that children can suffer are: strabismus (wrong alignment of the eyes), congenital cataracts, congenital glaucoma, blocked tear duct, intraocular tumors (retinoblastoma) or retinopathy of prematurity.
Pediatric ophthalmology is the specialty that diagnoses visual pathologies which, if not treated early enough, could lead to irreversible damages in the visual system
