Lazy eye syndrome - amblyopia

Some people may not know that they have this lazy eye syndrome throughout their life if they do not go and check their eyes or only know about it when they accidentally discover that they have a poorer eyesight in one eye.

Screening is done in children of school age to identify children with lazy eye disease or amblyopia - a disorder where vision in one eye does not develop fully during early childhood.

Children with “lazy eyes” can be cured if treatment is begun before they are three-years old, researchers say.

Check your kids by blocking one eye and then another to see if both eyes can see clearly or take them to the nearest optical store to have them check up.

In a L.E.S, the brain choose to receive signals from only one eye to see and usually it is the good eye.The bad eye becomes lazy and vision becomes poorer. This is like using only your right hand for everything and the left hand becomes weak .

The bad eye is not properly developed and even if you check his eyes , he may not have 20/20 visions in that eye.

He may have a higher power than the good eye but when using both eyes to see, he will have an unbalanced vision, because of the lopsided power. For comfortable wear , his bad eye will have to reduce the power .

It is commonly treated by making the lazy eye work harder to see by blocking the vision of the good eye with a patch.

Patching the good eye made the muscles of the lazy eye work harder and improved sharpness of vision.

A new research found that wearing the patch for 2-3 hours was effective as wearing for 12 hours.

It is very difficult for the kid to wear for such extended hours with the good eye blocked and seeing with the bad eye .It can be very uncomfortable .They will also be teased when they wear to school.

Glasses will be introduced in stages to correct his visions. This will improve the vision of the lazy eye.