{"id":27837,"date":"2024-01-09T20:51:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/keratoconus-in-children-and-adolescents\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:51:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T19:51:51","slug":"keratoconus-in-children-and-adolescents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/keratoconus-in-children-and-adolescents\/","title":{"rendered":"Keratoconus in children and adolescents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/keratoconus\/\">Keratoconus<\/a> often occurs in children and adolescents between the ages of 8 and 19.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The disease manifests itself at a young age and then continues to progress.<br \/>\nThe rate of progression is particularly high in younger people.<br \/>\nKeratoconus is often triggered by hormonal changes in the body during puberty in adolescence.  <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early detection of keratoconus<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier diagnosis &#8211; faster treatment and better preservation of vision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is important to stop the aggressive progression of the disease in children and adolescents as quickly as possible.<br \/>\nThis is only possible if keratoconus is diagnosed early.<br \/>\nIf keratoconus occurs frequently in the family, screening examinations for early detection are essential.  <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treatment with CXL in children<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/stitching-cxl\/\">Crosslinking (CXL)<\/a> is an effective method of halting the progression of keratoconus.<br \/>\nChildren and adolescents have an increased risk of complications and infections after treatment &#8211; the expertise and experience of the doctor is therefore all the more important in this age group. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keratoconus often occurs in children and adolescents between the ages of 8 and 19. The disease manifests itself at a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyelaser.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}