Can you correct a lazy eye?!


Question: Call me self-conscious, but I am bothered greatly by my slight lazy eye. It is probably due to the fact that when I was a child I had to wear an eyepatch over my right eye due to vision problems.
Most people don't really notice unless I say something, or they take a picture...but I am wondering, can it be corrected without seeing a doctor?


Answers: Call me self-conscious, but I am bothered greatly by my slight lazy eye. It is probably due to the fact that when I was a child I had to wear an eyepatch over my right eye due to vision problems.
Most people don't really notice unless I say something, or they take a picture...but I am wondering, can it be corrected without seeing a doctor?

Not without seeing a doctor, and perhaps not even then. I always screened my little patients for signs of amblyopia, but some were quite subtle and slipped thru the cracks. If there is a disparity in vision from one eye to the other, the brain tends to ignore the vision from the weaker eye, and the complex interaction of nerves along the visual pathway of that eye fail to develop adequately. As a result, the eye may drift, usually inward.

Patching the stronger eye forces the child to use the weaker eye, but it is not a perfect solution.

Enthusiasm for eye training and eye muscle exercises waxes and wanes over the years. My admittedly dated opinion is less than enthusiastic.

My friend has a lazy eye and the doctor prescribed her contacts, a certain type I think to correct it. Or at least make it less noticable.





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