Can you imagine a world without eyes? Everything in this world that we do or learn involves our eyes. Our eyes see the face, pictures, shapes, sites and deliver signals to brain for processing. Brain processes these signal and results in vision. We remember things because our brain stores some of these data in its memory. All these things happen without our knowing. If the brain has some difficulty in processing this image data, then it will significantly affect our learning as well as remembering capability. The problem can be more difficult if this happens in child age when we use to learn and remember things most. The problem in this period can seriously affect future of your children.

Amblyopia

Amblyopia is such kind of medical disorder where eyes looks physically normal but have faulty or low vision. It is commonly known as Lazy-eye. The problem can not be solved with glasses because the error doesn’t lie in eyes but in the brain. It is also believed that treatment of Lazy-eye should be done in early age below 8 years otherwise it will become incurable.

Symptoms and Detection:

Generally in Amblyopia, it is found that picture from one eye is clear and other eye is blurred. When our brain gets blurred signal from one eye, it tries to conceal that vision to produce a clear picture.

In the long run, this suppression process results in permanent decrease in sight for that eye, which can not be cured with glasses. This is the reason why Amblyopia should be treated at early age. The detection of Amblyopia is children is difficult because children at the early age are not aware that they have a different vision with different eyes.

Treatment of Amblyopia:

General treatment of Amblyopia involves patching of one eye and eye exercises to make brain active.

• Patching of eye:
In this treatment, an eye patch is placed in front of stronger eye, and weak eye is forced to work harder. Patient is advised to wear these eye patches for 2-3 hours each day. This way brain is forced to read and process signal from weak eye, which gradually improves the vision.

• Exercise to improve vision:

In this therapy, vision correction is done through eye exercise. Lately, this therapy is becoming highly successful. The exercise involve in this treatment are made for improving eye-brain connection, which results in, better vision for weak eye.