are there any procedure to get rid of lazy eye?

Question

Is there anything I can do to prevent my lazy eye from drifting?

Answer 1

Sure: First we must determine the cause then the use of patching, eye drops, eye glasses and surgery may be employed singly or together to combat amblyopia.

Answer 2

Yes: Therapy decision making for lazy eye depends on starting vision, when found, how much deviation, intermittent vs. Constant, how bothersome, underlying cause, etc. Then eye muscle surgery can be performed to align the eyes.

Answer 3

Depends on your age: Infants with apparent lazy eye can be treated with glasses and possible surgery to correct lazy eye. It is often difficult to notice that a child is developing lazy eye in the early stages, which makes it tough to prevent. Having your child evaluated by an eye doctor at the first suspicion that something may be wrong is the best prevention.

Answer 4

Absolutely: "lazy eye" is a somewhat derogatory layman's term for what i prefer to call by it's real name - amblyopia, or when the brain and eyes don't work well together. This is caused when the image reaching the back of the eye is not focused or when the eyes are not aligned. Symptoms include a poor judge of depth, one eye turning inwards or outwards, or the eyes not working together.

Answer 5

How old are you?: If under 8 o r 9 your lazy eye can be strengthened by patching your better eye and wear the best corrective glasses, but if older than 11 you must just wear the best correction for each eye and be very careful while doing anything that requires accurate depth perception. If the lazy eye is caused by muscle imbalance it may be necessary to correct that, too..

Answer 6

You might not be abl: Successful treatment depends on having this discovered at a very early age. After the age of 7 success is very poor. After the age of 10 success is almost impossible. The child should be taken to an ophthalmologist as early as possible.

Answer 7

Surgery may be it: An eye that's mis-aligned, in an adult, can be cosmetically distracting. Even if vision can't be improved, surgery to straighten the eye often does help. The underlying cause must be determined, & that list is extensive. In a child (younger than 8 or 9 yrs or so) a pediatric ophthalmologist should be consulted to try to recover vision.

Answer 8

Time for a visit: You need to visit an ophthalmologist and have a basic assessment done. You will need to clarify the issue. Some consider poorly a poorly aligned eye, "lazy" while it is better used for visual loss from one eye. Eye surgery may help re-align the eyes, but long term vision loss is usually permanent. Only a proper evaluation could be sure.

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