What is a lazy eye and how to prevent it?

Answer 1

when your eye doesnt feel like doing nothing, just eating chips all day. lol.

Answer 2

How To Prevent Lazy Eye

Answer 3

A lazy eye (amblyopic) is one that sees poorly because it has failed to develop, so strictly it is NOT present at birth, though the factors making one likely will be, as they are largely genetic.

Preventing a lazy eye can only be done by detecting the likely problem very early and providing therapy to stimulate the eye that the brain would otherwise tend to ignore.
It wants to ignore one eye since, due to difference in alignment or refraction, using both eyes would produce double vision, an even bigger problem.

More often, the lazy eye is detected a little later in life but, while the eye/brain system is still adaptable, up to about the age of 12 (authorities differ), a lazy eye may be partially or completely corrected with approriate treatment:
spectacles, contact lenses, eye patches, vision therapy, surgery, or some combination of these.

Although a lazy eye is often associated with a "turn", squint, or stabismus, neither implies the other. It is possible to have a lazy eye without a turn, and a turn without a lazy eye.

Whether lazy eye can be successfully treated in adults is subject to some controversy. The conventional and majority opinion is "no", but a few practioners claim new techniques offer more hope that was previously thought.
(though that has been claimed, falsely, before!)

Answer 4

A "lazy eye" is where one or some of the muscles that move the eyes are weak, or too tight, preventing the eye from moving in tandem with the other one, giving the person a lopsided look.
This is usually present at birth. In minor cases it can be corrected by eye exercises, or sometimes an eye patch over the better eye to get the "lazy" one to move more. Otherwise surgery may be an option.
Sometimes even when corrected, it may turn up again when the person is extremely tired, or stressed.

Answer 5

It has to do with the brain shutting off the imput from one eye as a way to cope with the conflicting signals caused by misaligned eyes. My sister was born with slightly crossed eyes. It wasn't until she started school that her vision problems became obvious. She was diagnosed with amblyopia and attempts were made to make her bad eye function with patches and glasses. Unfortunately, her condition was discovered too late for the treatment to be effective. The sight in her bad eye never improved. Apparently, this condition has to be detected before the child is about seven years old. After that, not much can be done for it and the person ends up being practically blind in one eye.

Answer 6

Lazy eye can not be prevented your just born with it. The muscles in that eye don't work right. If its severe then you have to wear a patch over the good eye.

Answer 7

All About Amblyopia (lazy eye)
What is Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)?
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.

Causes of Lazy Eye
Anything that interferes with clear vision in either eye during the critical period (birth to 6 years of age) can cause amblyopia. 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 cataract, trauma, lid droop, etc.

Amblyopia is a neurologically active process. In other words, the loss of vision takes place in the brain. If one eye sees clearly and the other sees a blur, the brain can inhibit (block, ignore, suppress) the eye with the blur. The brain can also suppress one eye to avoid double vision. The inhibition process (suppression) can result in a permanent decrease in the vision in the blurry eye that can not be corrected with glasses, lenses, or lasik surgery.

Detection and Diagnosis of Lazy Eye
An eye exam by a pediatrician or the 20/20 eye chart screening is not adequate for the detection of amblyopia (and other visual conditions). The most important diagnostic tools are the special visual acuity tests other than the 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.

Since amblyopia usually occurs in one eye only, many parents and children are unaware of the condition. Many children go undiagnosed until they have their eyes examined at the eye doctor's office at a later age. Comprehensive vision evaluations are highly recommended for infants and pre-school children.

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.

Treatment of amblyopia after the age of 17 is not dependent upon age but requires more effort including vision therapy. Although improvements are possible at any age with proper treatment, early detection and treatment still offer the best outcome.

http://www.lazyeye.org/

Answer 8

the correct name for a lazy eye is amblyopia, it is not correctable by glasses or contact lenses. lazy eye usually only effects one eye, not both. it is estimated that 3% or children under 6 have some form of lazy eye. you cant prevent lazy eye, its genetic.

Answer 9

You really need to watch Samantha Pearson's video at http://www.restoremyvisiontoday.info It tells you how you can 100% naturally and safely cure almost any visual problem and the real truth about the Eyecare industry...thing is.. your glasses and contact lenses are in fact making your eyes worse.

At first I didn't believe it but right now I don't need glasses anymore. I feel like something magic has happened to me, crazy!

Answer 10

its genetic. that means you cant just get it one day. if you do try using a patch over your stronger eye to kind of work out the one that doesnt work as well. its usually a one eye weakness thing. theres a surgery you can do when your young that removes some muscle tissue behind your eye but i dont think they do it when youre older.

Answer 11

i have two theories
1- its the way you were born and there's nothing you can do
2- the pupil in the lazy eye is off to the side because it's trying to escape

But i much rather prefer the second