Can a six-year-old child's amblyopia be cured?

If a six-year-old child is diagnosed with amblyopia, he or she should receive appropriate treatment at an early stage. Because there is currently no effective cure for this disease, most patients can only rely on targeted treatment measures to alleviate the condition. In addition, the posture when using the eyes must be correct. We must find ways to correct our children's vision and not let their eyes become too tired.

Eliminate inhibition, improve vision, correct eye position, and train macular fixation and fusion functions to restore binocular vision function. The therapeutic effect of amblyopia is related to age and the nature of fixation. It is better at 5 to 6 years old and worse after 8 years old. Central fixation is better and paracentral fixation is worse.

1. Abnormal vision and refraction

The visual acuity boundary between amblyopic eyes and normal eyes is not very clear. Some patients complain of decreased vision, but objective examinations show that their visual acuity is still 1.0 or 1.2. This may be because the patient feels that his vision has decreased compared to his previous vision. In addition, there may be certain obstructions in the visual cells in the fovea or the conduction system behind them, resulting in a very small central dark spot and conscious visual impairment, which cannot be detected objectively.

If there is no organic change in the amblyopic eye, and its visual acuity is above 0.01 and below 0.2, it is often accompanied by abnormal fixation.

The relationship between amblyopia and refractive error is that hyperopia accounts for a larger proportion, while myopia mostly occurs in mild amblyopia, so amblyopia is closely related to those with high degree of hyperopia.

In severe amblyopia of strabismic amblyopia, esotropia is more common than exotropia, probably because esotropia develops earlier than exotropia.

2. Difficulty reading

Or it is called crowding phenomenon. When checking vision with the same sight mark, illumination and distance, the measured values ​​will be different if the intervals between the sight marks are different. Difficulty reading is a characteristic of amblyopia.

Difficulty in reading means that the amblyopic eye is better at recognizing individual sight signs than groups or dense sight signs. That is, the ability to distinguish single fonts on the eye chart (such as the letter E) is stronger than that for words in rows.

3. Amblyopia only occurs in young children

Binocular amblyopia develops gradually between birth and age 9. During this developmental period, strabismus or loss of form perception may lead to amblyopia. Amblyopia will not occur after the age of 9 even if the above reasons exist.

4. Amblyopia only occurs in patients with monocular vision

If you use your two eyes alternately, amblyopia will not occur.

5. Abnormal fixation

People with severe amblyopia often use the retina next to the macula instead of the macula for fixation because the macula has poor fixation ability. Eccentric fixation refers to fixation outside the fovea. There are many theories about its formation, but its manifestations include parafoveal fixation, peripheral fixation, paramacular fixation, and migratory fixation.