Re: -off topic Lazy Eye - Help

January 14, 2006

Thanks to all for responding! I will contact some of the doctors

from the clinical study just to see if they can take him, and I will

look into vision therapy. (not that he has any room in his schedule

to fit in any additional therapy, but I'll find a way!) I think this

could really help him tremendously. I don't know how long he's had

this problem as I only discovered it a week ago.

mom to Broderick, PDD, SCD 4 months

> I also found this study between the effectiveness of the

atropine vs.

> patching if you're interested...

>

> http://www.nei.nih.gov/neitrials/viewStudyWeb.aspx?id=73

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> Robbie

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> Lazy Eye - Help

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> >I realize this is off the topic, but has anyone had to treat

their ASD

> > child for amblyopis (lazy eye)? Anyone use a patch? The

pediatric

> > opthamologist said for my 19 month old to wear glasses and to use

> > drops to blur the good eye to force the weak eye to work.

> >

> > Anyone have any thoughts, suggestions or experience in this? My

son

> > has many sensory integration issues also.

> >

> > thanks to everyone.

> >

> > SCD 4 months - mom to broderick

> >

> > For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read

the book

> > _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the

following

> > websites:

> > http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

> > and

> > http://www.pecanbread.com

> >

January 14, 2006

Babies are born extremelly far sighted and as their brain develops, it

starts developing the pathways between the eyes and the brain so the vision

slowly gets better and better - but in some kids, these pathways aren't

formed properly in one eye and it becomes 'lazy' as the brain basically

ignores any input that comes from it.... this is why you have to either

patch or blur the good eye so the bad eye is forced in use and the brain

then starts making the proper visual pathways for it. Sometimes surgery is

done to clip the muscles that pull the eye inward, but that doesn't correct

the eye/brain pathways, just makes it more difficult for the eye to turn

inward. The exercises and therapy can help keep the eye from turning

inward, but the pathways in the brain still have to be formed. I went

through it ALL when i was little - the surgery, the patching, the therapy

and I can still only achieve 20/30 vision in my lazy eye, which is still

somewhat farsighted.

Robbie

Lazy Eye - Help

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