hi i am 15 years old and when i was 1 1/2 years old i spilt some hot tea all over my face in my eyes and on the shoulders and chest. the hot tea left permanent burns on my chest and right shoulder and because of this incident i now have a lazy eye. i have had 2 surgeries done on my lazy eye (one when i was 9 and one when i was 11) and its still not straight. my eye doctor advised me to purchase some glasses which would make my lazy eye look straight and ive been wearing them and my lazy eye is still not straight. my right eye is perfectly fine when i close my right eye and see through my left i can hardly see anything but other wise i see everything perfectly fine. so i was wondering if theres anything else i could do it make my left eye (lazy eye) straight or if i could still get another surgery to straighten it.
2007-10-25 09:29:31 · 3 answers · asked by billybob 2 in Health ➔ Optical
I really don't understand what your doctor could have been talking about when he said to get glasses that would "make my lazy eye look straight". I don't think there is much chance of this working. About the only way to make your eye look straight is to make it straight. In other words, surgery is about the only thing that will work.
As to your second answer, once a person has developed amblyopia (lazy eye secondary to an eye turn) I have only seen glasses work if the patient has a large amount of farsightedness. If you had a large amount of farsightedness,though, I would have expected that your doctors would have already recommended you wear glasses. Amblyopia means that your brain has actively supressed (turned off) the eye that is deviating and simply does not accept visual acuity information from that eye when both eyes are open. If no information is being accepted from the eye then the brain cannot control the eye. In addition, nothing you have said in your question would lead me to believe that you have a nerve problem.
2007-10-25 09:37:25 · answer #1 · answered by yagman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You may not be able to do much more. Maybe one day they can do some type of laser surgery. Normally the lazy eye one muscle pulls stronger than the other, thus, pulling the eye toward the stronger muscle. Muscles work off of nerve impulses that relay information from the brain. The nerve basically tells the muscle to relax or contract. So, what I thinking, you may have nerve damage and the weak side not doing what it told. Kinda like the nerve saying do this and the muscle not hearing what all said. But, this an opinion and I not an eye specialist. There may be some people experiment with new technology and having good results, but, this not always easy to find, until it in the news. This type of experimenting people may get paid a few bucks and get a free surgery, but, I would think a person need to be of a certain legal age to participate or have parental consent. Lot of legal issues when we do the guinea pig approach.
About the first answer, I thinking the doctor was trying to use the glasses in a way that it force the lazy eye to work harder and help the muscles to work more in unison. I have seen this done, but, not in this particular situation. I guess it not hurt to try when it a last resort.
OK, I am back. First, is your eye doctor aware of the Tea incident, be sure he/she is.
The Doctor may be thinking "Amblyopia" and I not think this is the correct assumption.
Here a cut and paste about Amblyopia;
Treatment of Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
Treatment involves glasses, drops, vision therapy and/or patching. Recent medical research has proven that amblyopia is successfully treated up to the age of 17. See National Institutes of Health -- National Eye Institute; Older Children Can Benefit From Treatment; Lazy Eye.
http://www.lazyeye.org/#causes
2007-10-25 09:46:00 · answer #2 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Yagman. Sounds like amblyopia and the only thing that would really help to straighten the eye would be to undergo another surgery to even out the pull of the muscles on your lazy eye. The damage to the vison in that eye has already been done and is unfortunately, irrepairable. Surgery may help straighten out the eye, but it will do nothing to restore vision. Eye patching and atropine drops must be done at a very young age (before the age of 7 or so) in order to keep the damage from being permanent. The patching and the drops will force the bad eye to work and force the brain to pay attention to it. But the patching and drops don't work after a certain age.
You may want to talk to your parents about getting in touch with a good surgeon and see what they have to say about your condition.
2007-10-25 14:45:20 · answer #3 · answered by ♥♥Mrs SSG B♥♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋