DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2014.v02i05.027

Pages: 1636-1638

We carried out a prospective cross-sectional study in the Health referral Center of the 4th Commune of Bamako. The purpose was to study the clinical and legal aspects of the tropical form of vernal keratoconjunctivitis in children. The study included 339 children of 0-15 years old. The parents or the legal guardians of the children were administered a questionnaire. The children of 0-3 years old accounted for 43.4 % (n=147). The mean age was 9.02 years. The vernal keratoconjunctivitis of grade 1 and 2 were the most frequent, they accounted respectively for 49.9 % and 34.8 %. On the legal hand, there was a lack of informed consent of the parents; only 14% of the parents knew the true nature of the disease of their children.