Patient's question:
What are the treatment methods for mild amblyopia and strabismus? The child has had this condition for some time, and I am hesitant to give medication. Please provide some advice from the doctor.Doctor's answer:
In the treatment of childhood strabismus, the first step is to wear glasses to correct astigmatism and refractive errors to improve vision. If there is amblyopia, amblyopia treatment should also be performed, including conventional patch treatment, to promote the development of strabismus, thereby improving stereoscopic vision, and then surgery is performed to correct the strabismus. Strabismus refers to a condition where the optical axes of the two eyes are not aligned, with deviations in the medial, lateral, superior, and inferior directions. In normal individuals, binocular vision should be straight and parallel. When observing an object, the image of the object falls on the central fovea of both retinas, and then the brain's fusion ability can merge the images seen by both eyes into one.