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Eye patching therapy

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Differences of opinion and debate exist among pediatric ophthalmologists regarding the roles of part-time occlusion (PTO) versus full-time occlusion (FTO) therapy in the management of amblyopia. Our institution has long been a proponent of FTO, and we believe that appropriately-monitored patients treated with FTO have excellent outcomes. Supporters of PTO, by contrast, feel that less patching time is not inferior to FTO, and this treatment regimen has gained traction among pediatric ophthalmologists, particularly over the past decade. Occlusion therapy eye patch NEXGEL (NASDAQ:NXGL) CEO Adam Levy said being able to quickly develop the patch after learning about the need for a better amblyopia treatment product in the market is a hallmark of the company’s hydrogel technology.

Eye patch treatment

More specifically, for amblyopia the visual skill that needs to be retrained is the aforementioned binocular vision. Using Eye Patches to Improve or Protect Vision Lazy eye is sometimes caused by differing vision in each eye. For example, one eye may be farsighted (hyperopia) or nearsighted (myopia). This causes a difference in vision sharpness between each eye. This is called refractive amblyopia.

Patching: How to encourage my kid to patch?

While your child may love the eye idea of wearing an eye patch around Halloween — along with a sword and a swashbuckling hat, they probably don’t like the idea of wearing one year-round for several hours a day. Eye patching is a common treatment for amblyopia, also called lazy eye, which is a condition where the eye and the brain don’t work together well. What if my child refuses to wear the patch? Whilst patching is used to treat reduced vision, this must not be done at the expense of the other, good eye.

Patching therapy for amblyopia

Although classic teaching suggests that the more hours per day patching is performed, the greater the result, recent studies suggest that shorter periods may achieve similar results as longer amounts of patching in patients with moderate amounts of amblyopia. Lazy Eye / Amblyopia Treatment Particularly if a child is resistant to patching therapy, “atropine” eyedrops may be helpful in certain conditions. Atropine is instilled onto the dominant eye creating a temporary blurring effect which may allow the child to use the other eye with amblyopia – thus “patching without a patch.”

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