if a person has one crooked eye................?

Question

does that make it a lazy eye? my cousin has it and i feel bad for him. are there any surgeries for it?

Answer 1

What your cousin has is called an eye turn. Many mistakenly call it a lazy eye but that is for an eye that is amblyopic or weaker than the other eye when it comes to vision. These two can be related. Astigmatism is something completely different.
Some people have surgeries on the muscles that control our eye when we look in different directions. This can help straighten out the eye but many times it doesn't work.
They can do vision therapy sometimes to help make the eye muscles stronger.
Here are two different articles about the same person and how vision therapy helped her to see binocularly (with both eyes at once).

http://www.aoanews.org/x5886.xml?AOAMember

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3&prgDate=26-Jun-06.

Answer 2

Yes it's a lazy eye or astigmatism, not sure how to spell it. You can have surgery for it, but you don't need to go to that expense. Just get glasses. You might need to get bifocals at first, and as your vision gets stronger, your prescription will not be as strong on the eyes. Lucky for you, glasses are stylish now so you don't need to get some that cover nearly your whole face.

Answer 3

a lazy eye is an eye whose muscles are "weaker" than the non-lazy eye. It's called amblyopia. My son had it and he had to wear a patch to cover up the good eye, to force the weaker eye's muscles to work. You could not look at him and tell he had it, so I suspect your cousin does not have a lazy eye, but something else.

Answer 4

Eye patches. Cover up the strong eye. It forces the weak eye to strengthen itself.

Answer 5

yes its called lazy eye
i know a lot of ppl that have it
he can go to a doc. n he can give u a list of cures
or things that will improve it