Lazy eyes and laser eye surgery

If you are reading this blog post you may either be someone who has a lazy eye or be the parent of someone with a lazy eye. Either way you are likely to be interested to know whether a lazy eye is treatable by laser eye surgery.

If you have a lazy eye then you will most likely have been patched as a child - the reason for the patching is to try and strengthen your lazy eye by covering over your good eye in an attempt to make the bad eye stronger. There are many companies out there who offer advice on eye patches such as anissasfunpatches and so with there help, hopefully lazy eyes will be a thing of the past.

Depending on how successful your treatment was as a child will very much determine if you are suitable for laser eye surgery.

The general rule is that laser eye surgery can give you same vision as you currently have with glasses or contact lenses. So if you can see half way down the chart with your glasses or contact lenses then following the surgery you will still be able to see half way down the chart only that you wont have to wear the glasses or contact lenses.

If you decide to have laser eye surgery on your good eye then your surgeon will only consider you suitable if your bad eye is not profoundly lazy. The reason for this is that if they operate on your good eye and something goes wrong and you are left to rely on your bad eye it has to have a certain standard of vision. This is why eye patching at a young age is so important so it at least means you have some vision (even if not as good as your good eye) in that eye in case you ever had to rely on it.

Hope this post has been helpful. You can read more about lazy eyes at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyopia if you still have some questions unanswered.