Word: amblyopia
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Good news for parents of children with lazy eye, or amblyopia. A study in Ophthalmology found that kids who got atropine eyedrops twice on weekends improved their vision as much as children who got drops every day. What's more, the weekend drop treatment turned out to be about as beneficial as wearing an eye patch daily...
Lasik eye surgery, today performed almost exclusively on adults, can help children with amblyopia, or lazy eye, according to a small study in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. All six children in the study were very nearsighted, but five also suffered from amblyopia that didn't respond to such standard treatments as glasses or patches. Two years after surgery and postoperative patching, the vision of the five kids had vastly improved...
Good news for the million or so kids who have lazy eye: they may not have to wear their eye patch all day anymore. Until now, doctors have recommended that children with lazy eye, or amblyopia, wear a patch over the good eye for six hours a day to help strengthen the weaker one. That prescription often meant that kids had to wear their patches at school and suffer the taunts of classmates. But in the May issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology, researchers report that the eye patch effectively treated moderate amblyopia in 189 children whether it was worn...
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