Has Anyone Ever Heard Of A Condition Called “baby’s Eye?”?
October 3, 2009 by admin
Filed under FAQ on advance for astigmatism
I’ve been told by numerous opthomologists that my right eye never developed and that it’s like a new born babies eye. I should have worn a patch on the strong eye to make the weaker eye develop when I was a child. This condtion seems to affect one person in every generation on my father’s side of the family. Does anyone know of a way to treat this? I’m legally blind in my right eye 20/400. My left eye is 20/40, but I also have alot of astigmatism.
Please don’t tell me to have Lasik or any of the new surgeries, I’ve been told over and over that no doctor would touch me for that because for some reason if my left eye got damaged during the surgery that I’d be totally blind.
I have heard of excerises to correct this, but I’m not sure where to look this up or what they are called. Please advise.
I think what you are referring to is “lazy eye” or amblyopia. If the condition was not diagnosed and treated while you were a young child, there really is nothing that can be done to restore vision to the affected eye. Caught in early childhood (before the age of 5 or 6 usually) they can patch the good eye for several hours a day for several weeks or months (depends on what the doctor decides) and this forces the bad eye to work and because the good eye is patched, your brain has no choice but to pat attention to the bad eye and in most cases, the amblyopia can be treated and the child can grow up to have two normal healthy eyes.
Some times, amblyopia is brought on by strabismus. This is a condition where there is a misalignment of the eyes and they do not focus together on objects. You may have one eye that turns in, or out, or up, or down. Amblyopia can occur because the brain will only concentrate on the images of one eye and so the vision in the other eye is ignored and lost. Surgery can be done to correct the misalignment of the eyes, but it will not restore lost vision to the affected eye.
LASIK or other refractive surgeries are, unfortunately, not an option for those with amblyopia. These surgeries deal with the cornea, which isn’t the root of the problem in amblyopic patients. Refractive surgery may help the vision in your good eye, but I’m afraid that it really wouldn’t do anything in your bad eye.
my grandpa had this there was really nothing you could do except fix it when you were young your going to have to live with it.
ps. talk to your optimologist not yahoo answers