What is amblyopia and how to treat it?

Under amblyopia is understood the reduction in visual acuity, which is not corrected by usual glasses, contact lenses. In this case, one eye falls out of the vision process. From this, this disease is also called "lazy eye syndrome". According to the American researchers, the decrease in vision, which is not amenable to correction, is on the same frequency as cataract and glaucoma. The change in visual acuity is reversible.

Causes of the disease

Most often amblyopia occurs as a result of strabismus. In this case, the eye with the deflection of the axis does not participate in the perception of objects. Amblyopia also occurs as a result of a high degree of myopia, hypermetropia or astigmatism. In case of inadequate correction of these pathologies of vision, lazy eye syndrome also occurs.

Doctors also distinguish the so-called hysterical amblyopia. It arises as a consequence of psychoses, nervous shocks.

Symptoms of amblyopia

A typical sign of the lazy eye syndrome is a decrease in the vision of one or both eyes. Patients also can not correctly estimate the distance to the object.

Children can not accurately assess how much they have reduced vision. Therefore, the doctor thinks of the presence of the lazy eye syndrome every time if the foot roller, nystagmus is diagnosed. Sometimes children can not navigate in an unfamiliar place, they have disrupted adaptation to a dark place.

In adults, signs of amblyopia can be observed after severe nervous shocks. Most often this happens suddenly. Such a visual acuity disorder can last from several hours to several months. The degree of loss of vision can also vary - from almost imperceptible to almost complete, when only light is retained.

Treatment of the disease

The result of amblyopia treatment depends on how early treatment is started. If the syndrome is diagnosed in children, then the preferred age for therapeutic measures is up to seven years.

In adults, in the presence of cataracts, its removal is shown. Correction of ptosis and strabismus is performed. A correction of vision is performed, which should be optimal.

To restore the lazy eye to the visual process, glue the leading eye, stimulate the retina. Laser correction of vision is also shown.

Optical correction is used to ensure a clear image on the retina. With weak myopia and hyperopia, a complete correction is made, with medium and high degrees of ametropia, the size of the lenses is assigned by tolerability.

The result of treatment should be the restoration of the same visual acuity of both eyes.