" what is lazy eye ""?

Answer 1

When muscles of your lazy eye, are not as developed as your normal eye. When you focus on an object laze eye's muscles seems to lag

Answer 2

I had a lazy eye one eye turns in when your tired especially when your under 15

Answer 3

lazy eye is the eye that does not follow your good eye, especially when you want to focus on an object..now that you know what it is, treatment involves patching the good eye so that your lazy eye would move thus improving the condition of the lazy eye-to-good eye.

Answer 4

Amblyopia, commonly known as lazy eye, is the eye condition noted by reduced vision not correctable by glasses or contact lenses and is not due to any eye disease. The brain, for some reason, does not fully acknowledge the images seen by the amblyopic eye. This almost always affects only one eye but may manifest with reduction of vision in both eyes. It is estimated that three percent of children under six have some form of amblyopia.

Lazy Eye and Strabismus are not the same condition.
Many people make the mistake of saying that a person who has a crossed or turned eye (strabismus) has a "lazy eye," but lazy eye (amblyopia) and strabismus are not the same condition. Some of the confusion may be due to the fact that strabismus can cause amblyopia. Amblyopia can result from a constant unilateral strabismus (i.e., either the right or left eye turns all of the time). Alternating or intermittent strabismus (an eye turn which occurs only some of the time) rarely causes amblyopia.

While a deviating eye (strabismus) may be easily spotted by the layman, amblyopia without strabismus or associated with a small deviation usually can be not noticed by either you or your pediatrician. Only an eye doctor comfortable in examining young children and infants can detect this type of amblyopia. This is why early infant and pre-school eye examinations are so necessary.

Due to misunderstanding or misuse of the terms for different visual conditions (i.e., crossed eyes vs. lazy eye), many people are inaccurately labelled as having a "lazy eye."

Both eyes must receive clear images during the critical period. Anything that interferes with clear vision in either eye during the critical period (birth to 6 years of age) can result in amblyopia (a reduction in vision not corrected by glasses or elimination of an eye turn). The most common causes of amblyopia are constant strabismus (constant turn of one eye), anisometropia (different vision/prescriptions in each eye), and/or blockage of an eye due to trauma, lid droop, etc. If one eye sees clearly and the other sees a blur, the good eye and brain will inhibit (block, suppress, ignore) the eye with the blur. Thus, amblyopia is a neurologically active process. The inhibition process (suppression) can result in a permanent decrease in the vision in that eye that can not be corrected with glasses, lenses, or lasik surgery.

Since amblyopia usually occurs in one eye only, many parents and children may be unaware of the condition. Far too many parents fail to take their infants and toddlers in for an early comprehensive vision examination and many children go undiagnosed until they have their eyes examined at the eye doctor's office at a later age.

The most important diagnostic tools are the special visual acuity tests other than the standard 20/20 letter charts currently used by schools, pediatricians and eye doctors. Examination with cycloplegic drops can be necessary to detect this condition in the young.

Amblyopia can be successfully treated up to the age of 17. Early treatment is usually simple, employing glasses, drops, vision therapy and/or patching. Detection and correction before the age of two offers the best chance for a cure.

According to current research, amblyopia can not be cured -- normal 20/20 stereo vision -- without early detection and treatment. However, treatment for older children and adults is usually successful in improving vision and should be attempted. Treatment of amblyopia after the age of 17 is not dependent upon age but requires more effort including vision therapy. Every amblyopic patient deserves an attempt at treatment.

Answer 5

Lazy eye is like this.

Say your left eye is the lazy eye. Your right eye is normal.

Your standing someplace and you see this awesome, I don't care, bottle cap because it's small and easy to picture. It catches your full attention and you move to study it.

Your right eye would keep itself trained on the bottle cap itself, while your left eye would be be looking off away from it.

That is lazy eye, when your eye isn't really looking where it's supposed to.

Answer 6

The eye which pupil dilates slower than the other making the person focus the vision with only one eye.

Answer 7

When one eye is a little off kilter and does not move at the same rate as the other eye.