How long does it take to treat amblyopia

How long it takes to treat amblyopia depends on the cause of the amblyopia, which causes amblyopia is the easiest to treat, if it is a light treatment, generally speaking, through glasses through amblyopia training, six months to a year can basically be cured. However, after the treatment, it will take about half a year to consolidate, and for patients with strabismic amblyopia, the treatment time should be slightly longer, it may take 1 or 2 years, and then strabismic surgery after the strabismic amblyopia is cured. For amblyopia caused by high myopia, care must be taken when treating amblyopia to avoid further development of myopia caused by the treatment of amblyopia, and astigmatism caused by amblyopia also takes a relatively longer time, which may take six months to a year or even 1-2 years. For cataract caused amblyopia treatment time may be longer, may take 3-4 years, congenital cataract caused amblyopia may also be no matter how to treat the effect may not be good. Therefore, the specific treatment time for amblyopia depends on the type of amblyopia and the sensitivity of the child to training. If the amblyopia is caused by mild or moderate hyperopia, the child is more sensitive to it, so it is easier to cure and takes less time. However, for those with cataracts or those who are not sensitive to amblyopia training, it may take longer. There are also individual patients, after a certain degree of amblyopia training, reach a plateau, that is, no matter how to train vision can not come up, but no matter what amblyopia training is valuable in persistence, to persevere.