Child Going Blind Her Eyes to Save Life

News Health Articles - Child Going Blind Her Eyes to Save Life. Various things can cause blindness. But Millie, 3 years old child must be going blind both eyes to save her life from a rare cancer.

The father Kurt Boyce revealed that her daughter is a child who has incredible courage. This is because both eyes must be removed at age 3 years to save his life from a rare cancer attacks.

Millie was born in good health until a doctor finally diagnosed she had a rare cancer of bilateral retinoblastoma, a tumor in the retina of both eyes.

Millie's parents initially suspicious when Millie starts spreading on the wall and has trouble finding her toys. Then her condition worsened when her right eye resembles a transparent ball, and the doctor diagnosed she have a cancer.

Millie had to undergo chemotherapy treatment, but she left eye was also experiencing the same thin. Doctors also revealed that this condition was too late to save her eyesight.

She had to undergo surgical removal of the eyeball when three years old and being blind in both eyes. Millie's both eyes have been replaced with fake eyeball that has the same color, blue.

"She is the happiest little girl i've ever known. Millie is really wonderful children because she was very brave," said Kurt, as Quoted by The Sun, Wednesday(January 4, 2012).

Meanwhile the mother, Stephanie revealed tat Millie had everything that is positive but about her future, she was always determined to have a life filled with smiles all the time.

"If i can have one hope for Mille, then I wish she could see again eventhought only one hour. She would love to see all the lights are bright," said stephanie at his home in Weoley Castle, Birmingham.

Patients may be born with retinoblastoma, but this condition can rarely be intermediately diagnosed at birth. But most only realized when it appeared the symptoms of visual impairment in children, usually before age three years.

The first symptoms appeared retinoblastoma is a white reflex in the eye or eyes of a cat is often referred to, which is caused by the presence of a tumor mass of while-yelllow color which is often seen in photographs of children face.

While the other symptoms that appear are the complaints of poor vision or eyes that can rotate the ball to inside. When a growing tumor can cause eye pressure increases and can become very painful.