A lazy eye is one that has impaired visual capacity without it being damaged or suffering any alteration in its structure. His visual acuity is less than 100% even having achieved maximum optical correction. And what are the causes of lazy eye?
The development of the neurological channels of vision occurs during the first years of life. If the brain perceives significant differences between what it receives from each of the eyes, it will cancel the signal from one of them, becoming a lazy eye. Therefore, early detection and treatment is important.
The sooner the brain is trained to work with both eyes simultaneously, the faster binocular vision will recover. Brain plasticity of children is superior to the brain plasticity of adolescents and even more than that of adults.
Amblyopia can be categorized according to different causes:
- When there is a great difference in visual acuity between both eyes, we are faced with a anisometropic amblyopia.
- Strabismic amblyopia It occurs when one of the eyes presents a misalignment with respect to the other.
- If, on the contrary, there is a physical defect such as congenital cataracts, damage to the cornea and other physical causes, it is called withdrawal amblyopia.
Given the different causes why lazy eye can appear, we see that only one of them, strabismic amblyopia, presents easily observable symptoms. Parents may not realize that one eye is not working as much as the other.
Therefore, we reiterate that early diagnosis is essential. A complete visual examination as soon as possible is key. The treatment of the pathology will be much more effective the sooner the problem is detected.
There are different options when it comes to treating a lazy eye. At our next blog post you can meet them
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