Question
My child is just a few months old and I recently noticed that the baby doesn’t seem to be looking at things. It looks a bit like strabismus, as others have described. The hospital examination said it’s congenital blindness, but how could it be congenital? I’m very worried. What causes congenital blindness in infants?
Answer
The main cause of congenital blindness in infants is infections during the mother’s pregnancy. We all know that the placenta can protect the fetus, but in the first three months of pregnancy, the protective effect of the placenta is relatively small and cannot effectively protect the fetus’s health. If an infection occurs during this period and is not effectively treated, it is likely to transmit the virus to the baby, leading to the occurrence of congenital diseases, one of which is congenital blindness.