Prevention of diseases Children diseases    Strabismus   Amblyopia   Refractive anomalies   Learning problems   Retrolental       fibroplasia   Eye accidents   Recommendations Adult diseases	Eye accidents Every year, in the USA, 160.000 schoolchildren (age 5 to 17) become victim of eye injuries. Most of these injuries could have been prevented when adapted measurements would have been applied. In our Western world school accidents are the major cause of blindness in children.