Abstract
Optic neuritis is uncommon in children and is often bilateral unlike that in adults.
It is often associated with systemic diseases like mumps, measles, chicken pox, pertussis,
viral encephalitis and also following immunization. We report a series of 3 consecutive
paediatric cases of bilateral optic neuritis which presented to us over a period of
6 months and were followed up for 1 year. Two patients responded to steroids with
a normal ophthalmic and MRI examination at the end of one year. One patient expired
following development of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis.
Keywords
optic neuritis - para- infectious diseases - acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
