Children often get used to vision problems and may not tell their parents about it. As a result, their lazy eye may go undiagnosed for months or even years. From birth to 8 years old, the child's eye and brain have vital connections. As a result, the eye weakens and loses its vision. In this case, it is called lazy eye. type="checkbox">reasons - Eye deviation: in this case, one or both eyes tilt inwards, outwards or downwards... - Drooping eyelids or cataracts... - Extreme camera - Myopia - Astigmatism (a type of blurred vision) - Disparity: sometimes having different vision power in two eyes, which is called anisometropia, can cause eye laziness. When one eye sees more clearly than the other, the brain ignores the blur... Symptoms - Lucci - Frequent deviation of the eye - Tilting the head to see better - Some children have poor three-dimensional vision.... - Blurred vision Eye examination in children Children do not reach "visual maturity" until about 8 years of age, and after that, vision problems become more difficult to treat.. The earlier lazy eye in children is diagnosed and treated, the more likely it is to improve vision and prevent permanent vision loss.. Sometimes there are no obvious signs of a vision problem, so an annual vision exam is important in children. Treatment is mostly referred to an ophthalmologist... ### Blindness If left untreated, the patient may eventually lose all vision in the affected eye. This vision loss is usually permanent. According to statistics, lazy eye is the most common cause of monocular visual impairment in young and middle-aged adults. If lazy eye is not treated in childhood, the patient's central vision may not develop properly.. Treatment of lazy eye ### Glass When children's lazy eye is caused by severe refractive errors or anisometropia (when one eye sees more clearly than the other), glasses are prescribed... Glasses help send bright, focused images to the brain, which causes the brain to notice the weaker eye.. This allows the brain to use the eyes together and achieve normal vision.. In many cases, children with strong lazy eye need to cover the healthy eye.. Status The child is blindfolded for 2 to 6 hours a day while the child is awake.. There are two types of blindfolds.. One type acts like a band-aid and is placed directly on the eye, and the other is designed for children who wear glasses, which involves a cloth that covers the entire lens of the glasses.. Making sure the child wears the blindfold can be challenging. Despite distracting yourself with a new toy or Exciting, trips outside the park, sometimes blinding parents in the park or playing.. Some children try not to wear their blindfolds.... In these cases, atropine drops may be used. If diplopia is causing lazy eye in children and treatment with glasses, blindfolds, or eye drops does not improve eye coordination, eye muscle surgery may be an option. Also, if lazy eye is caused by drooping eyelids or cataracts, surgery is likely. is to be combined with other treatments The success of treatment for your child depends on when the problem is diagnosed.. Children under the age of 2 who are treated usually have the best results, but research has shown that treatment can have positive results in children as young as teenagers. After this age it is not known whether treatment improves vision and studies have not shown any significant benefit.. In the future it is necessary... **pi wrote:** This general information is a limited summary of diagnostic, therapeutic and/or drug information. It is not intended to be exhaustive and should be used as a tool to assist the user in understanding and/or evaluating potential diagnostic and treatment options... This information does not contain all information about conditions, treatments, medications, side effects or risks that may apply to a particular patient. A doctor's examination and assessment of a patient's specific and unique condition.. safe, effective or approved for treatment of a particular patient. I, Dr. Mehdi Afshari, disclaim any guarantee or responsibility related to this information or its use.. > * Among the medical services provided in the clinic are periodic examinations of children, periodic monitoring of children's growth and physical development, treatment of various infectious, digestive and respiratory diseases in children and adolescents, nutritional counseling, education and periodic care of premature babies, monitoring and treatment of all periodic problems during infancy, periodic mental and physical evaluation of children. > > *special services of Dr. Mehdi Afshari: specialized office circumcision, home visit and online consultation* > > *Practice address: No. 193, South Mehrabad, Southern Air University, Tafarsh East, Tehran > > *Contact number: 021-66602506*