Lazy eye??!


Question: If you have a lazy eye are your eyes symmetrical when you look at something or do you see more out of one eye?


Answers: If you have a lazy eye are your eyes symmetrical when you look at something or do you see more out of one eye?

Lazy eye (amblyopia) is often caused by a misalignment of the eyes in children. Their brains try to compensate for the conflicting images they receive by disregarding the signals from one eye so it becomes useless. This condition can be treated if caught early enough and with wearing an eyepatch on the strong eye to force the weak one to work. However, it doesn't always work and sometimes causes the good eye to become amblyopic. My sister was diagnosed with amblyopia at around the age of seven. Despite attempts to treat it by patching and wearing glasses, the vision in her bad eye never improved. She still has weak vision in one eye and has poor depth perception. That might have been a major reason for her reluctance to learn to drive a car. She didn't get her license until she was 35 years old.

no ma'am... when you have a lazy eye.. one eye stays open while the other eye appears to be squinting/ half way closed.. i do that when ever i'm tired.. i have to try keep one eye open.. cause it keeps trying to shut or it is quinting..
it usally just blurs the vision a lil bit nothing to severe.. one eye will be wide open.. not really noticeable till i get VERY tired then the eye is practically shut....

Lazy eye one eye not able to see as well as the other eye,some times the lazy cann't see.
I have strabismus,lazy eye is another form.

It is *just* possible to have amblyopia in both eyes, but almost always it's a condition of one eye and the attention, and best vision, is centred on the other.

Often the lazy eye also has a turn (squint, strabismus) but this need not be the case. It is quite possible to have a lazy eye with a symmetrical appearance to others and no sign, to them, of the problem, though the vision will still be on one side for the person involved.
(I've known this cause quite nasty shocks for parents of children, when they discover they have little sight in one eye.
The child, of couse has little reason to know there's anything wrong!) One awkward case is where the good eye is on the opposite side to the favourite hand: right-handed, left-eyed is not good for shooting a rifle and various other activities.

I agree with Pedestal.

somethings wrong with your eye.. if u can't see anything with ur left eye... better consult an ophthalmologist like i said previously...





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