Amblyopia– tag –

Even when ophthalmologists and orthoptists use the same words as patients, they often understand them in different ways. If these gaps pile up, an explanation may never get across, and you may end up in a state of “I don't know why I'm c...

Recently I had a valuable opportunity to speak about children’s eye diseases at a study meeting held for local pediatricians. Thank you very much for listening so attentively. The doctors asked many practical questions, which reminded me...

To parents who have finished their child's vision test andthe orthoptist or doctor has told: “To examine more closely, please put in eye drops called atropine at home for one week, and then come back for another test.” The sudden request...

I sometimes receive consultations from families who say, “The nursery school (kindergarten) told us to take my child's glasses off.” Who is responsible if the glasses break? Could it lead to injuries to the children?I imagine it is also ...

Amblyopia is eligible for a medical expense reimbursement (ryoyohi).After prescribing therapeutic glasses, we ask families to submit the amblyopia instruction form (jakushi shijisho) to the health insurance association office or similar....

Hyperopia, myopia, and astigmatism:What kind of conditions are they, really? Is it hard to see far away (or up close)? Do things look distorted?If it is hard to see up close, does that mean presbyopia? What the view looks like:Trying to ...

Sometimes a child has “amblyopia,” in which the ability to see has not developed in only one eye. During the eye test at school health checkups,the child may not be able to cover one eye properly, and the results can be unstable.There is...

“It's sad for a child to have glasses.”“Maybe they shouldn't wear glasses yet.”“To think my cute 👦👧 will end up with a glasses face.”“The grandparents said it isn't time for glasses.” This is about developing a child's ab...

Babies see a great deal after birth, and in doing so they develop their ability to see. Light entering the retina travels to the back of the head (the primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex), where the ability...

While talking with patients, I realized that “amblyopia” and “low vision” have different medical and social meanings. ◯ AmblyopiaA condition in which the development of visual acuity and binocular function stops because, in infancy and e...