What Is Amblyopia
Amblyopia or ‘Lazy Eye’ is a disorder of the visual system characterised by poor or indistinct vision in an otherwise physically normal eye. When this occurs, the brain ignores images from the wandering or unfocused eye (“lazy” eye). This results in the failure of development in the brain’s visual system for that eye’s normal sight. Poor vision occurs even when the refractive error is fully corrected with eyeglasses or contact lenses.
At this stage, the problem cannot be corrected with glasses, surgery or other optical measures, since the problem is related to the visual part of the brain (visual cortex) and not to the eye.


