Detection of amblyopia and revisions oral on the occasion of Universal Childrens day.

Healthy workshops have taken place on Monday 21 November, and were intended solely to children in first grade in both locations. Virgen del Carmen Cultural Centre of Torrevieja and the culture House of Guardamar have been the places chosen for the development of an evening in which alternated playful and informative activities with actions aimed at prevention and early detection of diseases.

Four dentists, a dental hygienist and two optometrists, more than one dozen of nurses worked in healthy circuit that allowed children can know what are those most appropriate food for their growth, the importance of dental hygiene and the advantages posed by precociously detect vision problems in order to prevent future disease.

About a thousand schoolchildren have been summoned to this quote which, in a pleasant and easy-going, way was made a circuit which began with the healthy workshop nursing takes care of you ”, that could redraw, complete sheets and learn new healthy lifestyle habits.

Children have been called in small groups and have been able to make circuit accompanied by their parents. First, initiated the review oral in which practitioners possible problems detected dental or hygiene, informing own schoolchildren about the importance of the washing teeth daily and to those patients that needed it to the realization of a more comprehensive review.

While the children were examined, the parents received an information leaflet on amblyopia in which had to be completed five questions about possible signs of lack of visual acuity in their children, then the Optometrists conducted a comprehensive review by a control type screening which allowed to identify vision disorders that may cause a deficit in the vision Centern one or both eyes, pathology known as amblyopia.

Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is the visual impairment in one eye caused by a bad image on the retina, which generates a suppression of from visual function of the eye at cerebral level. Detection, in most cases is preceded by signs observed by parents or teachers, hence the importance of this campaign aimed at children.

The evening concluded with a healthy snack oriented to the entrenchment of the learned habits, offering Moreover informative tips to parents on the importance of purchasing, handling and preservation of food.

The Department of health of Torrevieja studies extend this initiative to other municipalities in the area of health in order to reach the 100 per cent of children in school age, in this way, are not ruled out new calls in the coming months.

Universal Children’s day

In 1954 the UN General Assembly recommended that he instituted in all countries a universal children’s day, which is devoted to brotherhood and understanding among children around the world and would be allocated to activities to promote the well-being of children around the world, and suggested to Governments that they held the day on the date that each deems appropriate. On 20 November marks the date at which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the rights of the child in 1959 and the Convention on the rights of the child in 1989.