Abstract:

In order to minimize avoidable blindness and visual impairment, early intervention for children's eyes became very importent. Eye disease screening for newborn need to be attentioned by doctors. The earliest eye disease screening for children in China began in 2005. The screening objects gradually changed from high-risk  and premature babies to all the newborn; the check methods developed from the light stimulating,   anterior segment and red reflex examination gradually extended to the anterior segment combined with the retinal disease screening under indirect ophthalmoscope, to  carring out the wide-area digital fundus retinal photographic imaging system inspection, which considered as a new important tool of neonatal eye disease screening and reported higher positive detection rate. But at the moment,  relevant data of how many eye diseases can be treated in eye disease screening for a newborn are lack. The screening for newborn requires rules, standards, and scientific methods and procedures, committed to the effective preventing of blindness of children in China.