Lazy eye tagged posts

Electronic glasses have been proven as effective as eye patches for lazy eye in children. Credit: American Academy of Ophthalmology

Programmable digital glasses for lazy eye work as well as eye patching, study shows, improving vision by about 2 lines on the reading chart after 3 months. First new effective lazy eye treatment in 50 years. Amblyopia remains the most common cause of visual impairment in children.The child needs to receive treatment by the age of 8 or so while their eyes and brain are still developing, or he or she could become blind in the weaker eye.

Unfortunately, its hard getting kids to comply with lazy eye treatments like eye patches or medicated drops.Nearly 15% refuse to take eye drops at all. Both drops and eye patches work based on the occlusion method...