Do you have a Lazy Eye, do you even know what that is?
Amblyopia, popularly known as Lazy Eye, is poor vision in a healthy eye caused by unequal visual input during brain development infancy. strabismus, refractive error, and media opacification like cataracts, corneal lesions, ptosis and hyphema, all can lead to amblyopia during the sensitive period of visual development.
Amblyopia is often common in the left eye and affects near and distance vision equally.
It also impacts monocular visual functions like contrast sensitivity and Vernier grating. Some signs and symptoms of amblyopia are decreased vision in one or both eyes, misaligned eyes, head tilt and squinting.
Amblyopia, based on presenting visual conditions can be classified as Refractive (Anisometropic and Isometropic), Strabismic, Deprivation, and Reverse Amblyopia.
People with a higher risk of being amblyopic are those who have a direct relative with amblyopia, infants born premature, infants that have early stimulus deprivation, refractive error, infantile or congenital esotropia.
Amblyopia that is detected and managed early sometimes has a better prognosis.
Ways to control or manage amblyopia include refractive correction if the patient has a refractive error, surgical correction to correct any strabismus or ptosis, occlusion or patching to enforce visual development in the poor seeing eye, atropine penalization, and binocular treatment.
Stay safe and refer anyone with an eye problem to your local optometrist.
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