article_snippet.sent: Anophthalmia is a rare disease in which a baby is born with no eyes.
article_snippet.sent: Anophthalmia develops during pregnancy, and affects around one in 10,000 births in the UK.
article_snippet.sent: Anophthalmia means an absence of the eye.
article_snippet.sent: A child may be born with one, or both eyes, missing from the eye socket.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers also believe that environmental factors, such as exposure to X-rays, chemicals, drugs, pesticides, toxins, radiation, or viruses, increase the risk of anophthalmia, but research is not conclusive.
article_snippet.sent: Unfortunately, there is no treatment that will restore vision in children affected by Anophthalmia.
article_snippet.sent: Children will need to undergo repeated hospital visits and many have prosthetic eyes to ensure that the bone and soft tissue around the eye socket grows properly and to improve appearance.
article_snippet.sent: But none of the doctors said A child could be born blind. '
article_snippet.sent: But Staff at Arizona's Banner Desert Medical Center were stunned to discover the reason his eyelids would not open was because his had anolpthalmia.
highlights_snippet.sent: Suffers from rare condition called Anopthalmia, meaning a lack of eyes .
  