Does LASIK surgery help in amblyopic (lazy) eyes in adults?
LASIK surgery cannot improve the 'laziness' (or in other words the denseness of amblyopia) of the eye in adults.However, there are situations where LASIK can still improve the quality of life of adults with amblyopia. This applies mainly to milder amblyopes where the amblyopia was caused by a refractive problem eg anisometropia (big difference in spectacle degree between the two eyes).As an example, we can have a 45 year old who has 6/6 vision unaided in the good eye, and best corrected vision of 6/12 in the amblyopic eye due to unilateral hyperopia of +2.50D. Unaided vision in the amblyopic eye could very well be around 6/36. In such a case, the options would be to wear glasses, a contact lens in the amblyopic eye, or LASIK for the amblyopic eye. A significant proportion of people do not tolerate a difference in spectacle degree between the eyes of more than +2D, and if wearing a contact lens causes problems such as dry eyes then LASIK can certainly help. The improvement of vision after refractive correction would include the potential for much better depth perception (stereopsis) and a better field of view on the side of the amblyopic eye. This would benefit vision oriented tasks such as driving. Of course, the patient would need to be advised that even after LASIK surgery, vision in the amblyopic eye could only be as good as what it would achieve with glasses or contact lenses, and that it still would not be as good as the other, non-amblyopic eye.
Can Amblyopia be treated in an eleven year old kid?
Amblyopia, Lazy eye, is reduced vision in one eye caused by abnormal visual development early in life. The weaker — or lazy — eye often wanders inward or outward.Early diagnosis and treatment can help prevent long-term problems with your child's vision. Lazy eye can usually be corrected with glasses or contact lenses, or eye patches. Sometimes surgery is required.It's important to start treatment for lazy eye as soon as possible in childhood, when the complicated connections between the eye and the brain are forming. The best results occur when treatment starts before age 7, although half of children between the ages of 7 and 17 respond to treatment.Treatment options depend on the cause of lazy eye and on how much the condition is affecting your child's vision. Your doctor might recommend:Corrective eyewear. Glasses or contact lenses can correct problems such as nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism that result in lazy eye.Eye patches. To stimulate the weaker eye, your child may wear an eye patch over the stronger eye. The patch is generally worn for two to six hours a day.Bangerter filter. This special filter is placed on the eyeglass lens of the stronger eye. The filter blurs the stronger eye and, like an eye patch, works to stimulate the weaker eye.Eyedrops. A twice-weekly eyedrop of a medication called atropine (Isopto Atropine) can temporarily blur vision in the stronger eye. This will encourage your child to use the weaker eye, and offers an alternative to wearing a patch. Side effects include sensitivity to light.Surgery. If your child's eyes cross or wander apart, your doctor may recommend surgical repair for the eye muscles. Your child may also need surgery if he or she has droopy eyelids or cataracts.Activity-based treatments — such as drawing, doing puzzles or playing computer games — are now available. The effectiveness of adding these activities to other therapies hasn't been proved.For most children with lazy eye, proper treatment improves vision within weeks to several months. Treatment might last from six months to two years.It's important for your child to be monitored for recurrence of lazy eye — which can happen in up to 25 percent of children with the condition. If lazy eye recurs, treatment will need to start again.
Can pranayama cure lazy eye or amblyopia for adults above 20?
Pranayama doesn’t do anything to cure a lazy eye. Rather, you may approach a qualified yoga master to evaluate your condition and get trained in a kriyaa called traataka. However, the practice of nadishodhana pranayama will surely enhance the benefits of other kriyas like trataka, neti etc. So practicing nadishodhana pranayama is certainly advisable (of course, with proper guidance only).The general practice in such cases is to do jyotirtrataka (more effective than jaturtrataka or anguli trataka) with more emphasis on exercising the lazy eye to get back normal vision. This emphasis on exercising the lazy eye by practicing trataka individually with one eye at a time is called ‘patching’ treatment in the modern day terms. There may be other treatments available with medicine. But with pure yoga, trataka is the ultimate cure for a lazy eye.However, the result of such practice purely depends on the severity of the problem and your sincerity in practice of the said procedure. That cannot be evaluated here with your question. So the only way out is to approach a learned yoga master.
Prozac: The cure to amblyopia?
I'll disagree with my higher qualified colleague above, concerning the age limit for treating amblyopia, at least in *some* later teenagers, and even older people. (URL, for example) But I don't buy into every "miracle treatment and cure " in this area and would say improvement, not normal acuity, is the objective. But otherwise we agree, It's a laboratory study on rats only at the moment, though an interesting one. If it's true that "The medicine appears to work by returning neurons in the adult brain to a more "plastic" state normally only seen in youth. This allows the visual perception system to develop its proper connections between the eye and the brain." Then that could have widespread uses: from cognitive-behavioural therapy to learning languages. But I'm not holding my breath. Note: amblyopia is a failure of development, not a progressive disease. With rare exceptions, (where there is some other disease underlying the amblopia) neither the good or the lazy eye is at additional risk because of the amblyopia. To repeat: amblyopia, on its own, does not add to the nromal human risks of going blind. Optometrist, retired.
Will lasik help lazy eyes?
LASIK will not help amblyopia, the condition where one eye does not work as hard as the other. LASIK will only correct you to the level that glasses or contacts do. For example, if your lazy eye corrects in glasses to 20/50, that's as good as it will get with LASIK treatment. Now, some people call eye alignment problems lazy eye also, eye crossing (esotropia) and eye drift outward (exotropia). Once again, LASIK cannot correct these problems at all, but there are surgical options of strabismus surgery to realign the eyes. The links below describe each eye condition and possible treatments. Amblyopia treatment has the best effect on children under 10, though we have had a couple of kids through our Pediatric Ophthalmology Clinic between 10 and 13 attempt treatment for less severe cases with some partial results, but not as good as if they'd been treated much earlier in life.
Can Amblyopia be cured through surgery in adults?
Amblyopic, likewise called lethargic eye, is turmoil of sight because of the eye and cerebrum not functioning admirably together it brings about diminished vision in an eye that generally regularly seems typical. It is the most widely recognized reason for diminished vision in a solitary eye among kids and adults. The reason for amblyopic can be any condition that meddles with centering amid early youth. This can happen from poor arrangement of the eyes, an eye being unpredictably formed to such an extent that centering is troublesome, one eye being more partially blind or farsighted than the other, or blurring of the focal point of an eye.
How do I cure my amblyopia (age 15)?
Eye patch strengthening - which your ophthalmologist must have suggested already .Visit an experienced yoga teacher for trataka - there are some resources on the internet on this too. I think this website has a good explanation of the practice if you would like to try. TratakaTrataka (Candle Gazing) Cleansing TechniqueI am not affiliated with them, but I found the details of the practice fairly good.Ayuvedic treatment may be helpful.
Are there any ways (besides surgery) to fix a lazy eye?
Let's see.Lazy eye or amblyopia, the medical term is a condition which occurs because the brain does not learn to see with any of the eye due to lack of practice or ‘opportunity to see’. This can happen due to various conditions most common being refractive errors (need for glasses).What example common person can understand is like inability to write with the nondominant hand. Because a right hand person uses only the right hand to write so the left hand cannot write so well. Similarly when brain cannot use any or both the eyes due to some reason the growing child's brain will not learn the skill to use the eye.Now with that background it's easy to understand that surgery is not the solution for lazy eye. The treatment is to remove the ‘obstruction’ in vision and then allowing the lazy eye to be used more and more so as to practice to ‘see’.Let me give two examples.Cataract in one eye of a child less than two years of age. The eye which has cataract will be lazy and the treatment will be surgery to remove cataract and then practice to see (Amblyopia therapy).Child with squint will need surgery for squint correction followed by (Amblyopia therapy)But a child with refractive error will just need glasses and Amblyopia therapy.
How do I know if I have a lazy eye?
Lazy eye or amblyopia are conditions under which your vision in one or both eyes is reduced from the normal 20/20. The anatomy and appearance of the eye is grossly normal. Often the eye turns in or out. Sometimes one or both eyes have an extreme myopia, hyperopia or astigmatism. If the extreme ammetropia (need for glasses) is not corrected in the formative years, the vision loss can be profound and permanent. Classically the formative years for visual development are the first 9–12.If you compare your corrected visual acuity between eyes or with someone else with normal vision or visit an eye doctor they can easily make the diagnosis.Although doctors routinely have a cutoff on the age of treatment, we have treated patients of all ages. In my opinion this is dated thinking and is similar to telling an older person that they cannot learn a new language. Although it is more difficult, where there is a strong will there is often a way.The key is giving an advantage to the weaker eye.Hope this helps.