how do get rid of a lazy eye?

Question

how do get rid of a lazy eye?

Answer 1

My son was just diagnosed with this and the vision in the lazy eye is 20/200 with corrective lenses (basically, legally blind). The eye doctor has us patching his good eye for the next 7 weeks - from the time my son gets up until the time he goes to bed - to try to force the lazy eye to work. There are also drops that you can get from the eye doctor to make the good eye "blurry" so you don't have to wear the patch.

Good luck.

Answer 2

*Surgery
*Glasses
*Eye patch
*Eye drops

Before treating amblyopia, it may be necessary to first treat the underlying cause.

Glasses are commonly prescribed to improve focusing or misalignment of the eyes.

Surgery may be performed on the eye muscles to straighten the eyes if non-surgical means are unsuccessful. Surgery can help in the treatment of amblyopia by allowing the eyes to work together better.

Eye exercises may be recommended either before or after surgery to correct faulty visual habits associated with strabismus and to teach comfortable use of the eyes.


1. Children
“Lazy Eye” is correctable if detected and treated early (before the age of 8 or 9). The most common form of treatment for children is 'Patching'. A child must wear an eye patch over the stronger eye for an extended period of time.

Many children do not comply with the ‘Patching’ treatment, as the patch is not comfortable, and is considered socially embarrassing. For this reason, combined with the fact that many amblyopic cases go undetected in childhood, many children become adults with Amblyopia.

2. Adults
Until recently, Amblyopia or 'Lazy Eye' was considered untreatable above the age of 9. After two decades of scientific and clinical research, NeuroVision has developed an effective treatment for Amblyopia in older children and adults.

Answer 3

There is lots of eye therapy out there, like physical therapy. It costs money usually though, many insurances may not think it is appropriate. You will also need glasses possibly. You need to strengthen the eye muscles. Tie a string around a door nob. Pull the string tight. Bring the string to your nose and look at it close to the door nob and slowly follow the string to your nose with your eyes. Do this until you loose focus, eventually you will get better at it and you can also see exactly how "lazy" your eye may be. No surgery plz!!

Answer 4

To help improve it my doctor said, (because I have lazy eye) to close the good eye every day and stress the other one to look at small print or even play a video game with the good eye closed.

Answer 5

see an eye doctor. they should be able to give you eye exersizes that will strangthen the lazy eye. I had one once. You may have to have surgery to correct the muscles. You will probably have to wear an eyepatch as a part of the training therapy.

Answer 6

Lazy eye can be corrected, but not usually successful after about age 10.

Answer 7

depends on the age, when young, doctors will have the child wear an eye patch on the good eye to make the lazy eye adjust properly. After adulthood, I think surgery is likely required.

Answer 8

Wear an eye patch over your dominant eye for 1-2 days. That should work.

Answer 9

depends on old you are with kids they will try to patch the good eye to try in build up the muscle with the lazy eye for older patients they sometimes do eye muscle surgery to correct the strabismus

Answer 10

Surgery.