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  • HOW CAN AMBLYOPIA BE PREVENTED?

    Amblyopia can be prevented by getting vision screening tested at an early age. Children should undergo eye check-up by the age of five.

  • IS THERE ANY ALTERNATIVE TO PATCHING?

    No there is no alternative treatment other than patching. Sometimes a child can be given Atropine eye ointment to the better eye with or without patching. This forces the child to use the eye with poor vision for distant and near activities.

  • HOW IS AMBLYOPIA TREATED?

    “Lazy eye” could be corrected. A lazy eye simply needs to do more assignments. The “power” of the lazy eye is accurately corrected so that when proper glasses are worn, that eye can focus appropriately and send clear signals to the brain. By this time, the brain is already trained to ignoring images from the lazy eye and processes only the images from the “better eye.” The challenge of the treatment lies in training the brain to see the images from the “lazy eye.” The doctor covers the better eye, which forces the brain to recognize images from the lazy eye.

  • WHAT CAUSES AMBLYOPIA?

    The eye operates similar to a camera. Both are capable of taking continuous shots. All these shots or pictures are automatically processed by the brain. The brain processes only those pictures which are clear. When the child does not wear the correct glasses, that eye fails to focus clearly. It repeatedly takes blurred images and sends them to the brain. The brain in turn rejects these images from the “faulty” eye and only forwards the images from the working eye. Hence, the “faulty” eye despite its ability to see” cannot see. Problems encountered in visual processing make the eye lazy.

  • WHAT IS LAZY EYE OR AMBLYOPIA?

    “Lazy Eye” is a term commonly used by Pediatric Ophthalmologists. The medical term for lazy eye is amblyopia. An eye is termed lazy when the child does not see with that eye despite wearing glasses.

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