Thursday, May 22, 2008

You Don’t Need To Live With Amblyopia

Who would have thought that Leanne Nagle was an awkward kid with an awkward-er face and today has been selected as a contestant competing for Britain’s Next Top Model?

Sleek brunette locks frame Leanne’s creamy face, from which peer out two ash-grey eyes, one of which was affected by a condition called lazy eye. A lazy eye or amblyopia is an eye condition that is found occurring in children due to a number of different reasons.

Some common reasons for amblyopia are strabismus (strabismic amblyopia) which makes the person with the condition squint, anisometropic amblyopia, ametropic amblyopia and stimulus deprivation amblyopia. These conditions in turn are caused by other factors.

The best way to treat amblyopia is by making the child wear a patch on the good eye or using vision therapy to cure the affected eye. Certain eye drops can also help the effected eye.

If amblyopia is caused by a squint or due to a cataract, then eye surgery is required. An eyelid surgery on the other hand, will not be of much help and will only be useful if the upper eyelid of the person is causing the eye to close unnaturally.

For further blepharoplasty information visit the Plastic Surgery Institute of California.

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