AN INTERESTING CASE OF PEDIATRIC OPTIC NEURITIS

Optic neuritis (ON) is a rare , uncommon condition in the paediatric population and usually underlies a viral cause. In comparison to adult population, paediatric optic neuritis (PON) occurs usually after acute febrile illness and has bilateral optic nerve involvement .Visual loss occurs as prominent symptom .Ocular pain is less common. It has relatively good visual prognosis with near 1 complete visual recovery. Mean age of occurrence is 10 years with female population more affected than male. It has reported incidence of 0.2 per 2 100,000 children .Children with ON are seropositive for either AQP-4(Aquaporin 4 or MOG Ab (anti-myelin-oligodendrocyte glycoprotein ) We hereby report a case of bilateral optic neuritis in 10 year old boy who presented to our institute with sudden onset of headache , retro orbital pain ,bilateral defective vision .