Amblyopia: treatment in adults

This disease has also a popular name - "lazy eye". This is an eye pathology, in which only one eye of a person participates in the vision process. Patients with amblyopia have reduced visual acuity, which is almost impossible to correct by optical means. Typically, this disease affects children of different ages, but it can also occur in adults. With early detection and rapid elimination of the cause that provoked the disease, the treatment passes quickly. Sometimes with amblyopia, treatment in adults is almost impossible, if the disease is started, and doctors make quite unfavorable predictions.

In the process of visual activity in a healthy person, as a rule, both eyes are involved. They, using their visual analyzer, perceive the image of objects surrounding the person, which passes through their optical environments. The picture is projected onto the retina, and the brain analyzes the sensory experience gained. In this case, a healthy person has three basic conditions necessary for the normal functioning of the visual analyzer: sufficient transparency of the optical media of the eyes, clear and clear focusing of the image on the retina, as well as the normal operation of the brain in the perception and transmission of visual information.

And with the disease amblyopia treatment in adults is impossible because it is just a violation of one or more of the above conditions. A healthy eye or one that a person sees better, occupies a leading position, and the eye with the worst activity is eventually turned off from the visual process.

In general, there are a lot of reasons for this disease. Depending on their nature, amblyopia, its types and correction are as follows:

- optical, or refractive, amblyopia, which occurs with certain violations of the optical characteristics of the eye. Nearsightedness and hyperopia of a high degree, astigmatism, a large quantitative difference in the optical power of both eyes lead to this kind of amblyopia. It occurs most often and is most easily eliminated if treatment is started on time. Doctors prescribe eye correction for visual impairment, and refractive amblyopia disappears.

- Obscuration amblyopia, which occurs mainly in childhood, since it is associated with the most common congenital violation of transparency in the optical environment of the eyes. This kind of amblyopia can develop due to acquired cataracts, corneal injury with a scar after it, throat and other gross changes in the vitreous. This is the most severe form of amblyopia, which practically does not respond to treatment and predict the consequences of this type of disease to doctors very hard.

- Dysbinocular amblyopia. The affected eye has certain deviations from the point of its fixation, which are caused by strabismus or nystagmus. These diseases entail the appearance of amblyopia in a person.

- psychogenic amblyopia in adults, which in most cases develops in them against the background of various forms of hysteria. Because of great stress, one- or two-sided vision loss suddenly occurs. It can also be accompanied by the appearance of photophobia, a violation of the perception of colors and shades, and other functional eye disorders. This form of amblyopia is well treated with the help of timely prescribed therapy. Also in this case, ophthalmologists recommend that a patient undergo a course of treatment with a psychologist, since the causes of psychogenic amblyopia lie not in the eye but in the human brain.

It is important to note that the smaller the patient's age, the greater the likelihood of a positive result of treatment, therefore, with amblyopia, treatment in adults is much more difficult, since it is extremely difficult to get the retard of the "lazy eye" to start working. If a person has had visual problems since childhood and the parents missed the moment when the development of optical, obscurant or dysbinocular amblyopia began, against the background of these problems, then in adulthood, the disease can no longer be eliminated. Hysterical amblyopia arises unexpectedly and suddenly, and it is in adults. As a rule, the disease is preceded by a severe emotional shock, which leads to "turning off" one eye for several hours, and in some cases for several months. The disease also stops spontaneously, as it began, especially if the patient was prescribed sedatives and a course of psychological help.

Before starting with amblyopia treatment in adults, all diseases that can lead to poor eyesight should be avoided. Children, as a rule, are treated by the method of occlusion, that is, turning off from the visual process with the help of a special curtain of the active eye. In this way, doctors tend to "teach" and "make" an unused eye. In a more mature age, it is almost impossible to carry out such a procedure, since the eye becomes less mobile and poorly amenable to conservative correction. Obstetrical amblyopia, which appeared in a child under the age of three, becomes irreversible after 11-12 years and can not be treated. Therefore, it is very important to consult a doctor as a child, since an adult person can be cured of any form of amblyopia much more difficult than a child.