Contents:
- Medical Video: Detect Eye Cancer (Retinoblastoma) with Your Smart Phone – CHECT UK
- What are the characteristics that indicate eye cancer in children?
- 1. White pupils (leukocoria)
- 2. Crossed eyes
- 3. Red eyes
- 4. Vision deteriorates
- Some signs and other characteristics
Medical Video: Detect Eye Cancer (Retinoblastoma) with Your Smart Phone – CHECT UK
Eye cancer (retinoblastoma) is one type of eye cancer that attacks the retina, the nerve tissue behind the eyeball. Retinoblastoma mostly affects early childhood. That is why as a parent, you must understand well with the characteristics that indicate the presence of eye cancer in children.
What are the characteristics that indicate eye cancer in children?
1. White pupils (leukocoria)
This condition is the most common feature of eye cancer in children. Normally when illuminated, the pupil (circle in the middle of the eye) will be reddish in color due to the presence of blood vessels behind the eyes. But in the case of retinoblastoma, the pupil is actually pink or even white.
This can happen because the pupils are translucent so that the cancer in the child's eyes can be seen easily.
2. Crossed eyes
Strabismus or squint eyes are conditions when the two eyeballs do not move in the same direction. One eye can point inward or outward erratically. If you continue to be allowed this condition can lead to lazy eyes because the nerves in the eyes and brain are not able to work properly.
3. Red eyes
Eye pain is usually characterized by redness that occurs in the white part of the eye. But in the case of retinoblastoma, this redness is not always accompanied by pain or pain. Children can feel their eyes in a healthy condition, just look red.
4. Vision deteriorates
Characteristics of eye cancer in children can be characterized by deteriorating vision. Children may complain that their eyesight is not as good as they used to be.
Starting from the difficulty to see an object clearly until it is unable to control eye movements. Eye movements will usually be difficult to control if damage is experienced by both eyes.
Some signs and other characteristics
In addition, the condition of the eyeball is enlarged, bleeding in the eye, the color difference in the iris (the part that gives the eye color), are other signs that can also appear to strengthen the presence of eye cancer in children.
Various signs and characteristics that have been mentioned before, it does not always indicate the presence of retinoblastoma. But if you are worried when a child experiences one or more of the above characteristics, do not delay to immediately consult the ophthalmologist to get treatment as early as possible.
