eye health


Good vision is essential for every child, so it’s vitally important that your child's eyes are well looked after from birth…


Trough the eyes of a child


is extremely important for the development of your baby’s body, including the eyes and the vision centres in the brain. Recent research is indicating that


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smoking, in particular, during pregnancy may potentially be linked to an increased risk of vision problems in children. Last year, for example, a report published online by the Scandinavian eye journal, Acta Ophthalmologica, researchers in the UK and China reviewed studies published since 1985 to examine vision issues in children exposed to cigarette smoking during intra- uterine life. Of the 24 studies included in the analysis, 18 of them found fetal exposure


our child’s vision development actually begins before he’s even born, so how you care for your own body during your pregnancy


to active maternal cigarette smoking or passive exposure to cigarette smoke were associated with eye problems, such as higher rates of refractive errors, and retina and optic nerve problems in children whose mothers had smoked during pregnancy.


Newborn babies


Soon aſter your baby is born, midwives or other hospital staff will examine his eyes to rule out signs of genetic conditions, such as cataracts, or for conditions that are the result of infections which may have been caught by you during pregnancy. (Tere is a small risk, for example, that a pregnant woman who catches rubella, may have a child with eye problems). Premature babies and those with a low birth weight are also more likely to have >


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