Recently a little girl named Layla went on microblogging hit because of her father’s hand-painted eyepatch for him. The little girl Layla has to wear an eyepatch for more than two hours a day to improve her vision because of amblyopia in her right eye, but she doesn’t seem to like the patchy eyepatch so her dad went so far as to paint 150 cartoon eyepatches for her, which made Layla so happy. Despite suffering from eye disease, Layla doesn’t feel any inconvenience and still has a lovely smile on her face, while the painted eye masks made by her father also add a different sense of adorableness to her childish face; the photos were uploaded in just 2 days, and have already accumulated nearly 450,000 views. So what kind of amblyopia is Layla suffering from, and how can we parents detect and treat it early? What is amblyopia? Amblyopia, or “lazy eye” in English slang, is a condition in which the eye is lazy and does not actively look at things. The child’s eyes are not abnormal in appearance, but have poorly developed visual function. Ophthalmologic examinations often show refractive errors, and after dilated optometry and appropriate corrective eyeglasses, the visual acuity is still less than 0.8, or there is a difference of more than two lines of vision between the two eyes. What are the effects of amblyopia on children? Amblyopia not only has poor vision, but also has no stereoscopic vision. In addition to the problems such as falling down when walking and lack of concentration, amblyopia also affects learning, creates low self-esteem, and even has a negative impact on the choice of career when they grow up, and they will be rejected by industries such as medicine, art, and construction. Therefore, parents must pay attention to it. How to detect amblyopia? In daily life, if children often fall, can’t hold things well, afraid to go down the stairs, etc., parents should pay attention to it, you can use the vision chart to check whether the vision is normal or not. For younger children, you can take the cover method, respectively, with the appropriate cover to cover the child’s eyes, if cover one eye, the child will go to tear, and cover the other eye, the child has no opinion, indicating that the “lazy eye” on the cover does not respond, should also be suspected of amblyopia, at this time should be as soon as possible to the regular At this time, you should go to a regular eye hospital for examination as soon as possible, so as not to delay the best time for treatment. How to treat amblyopia? Covering method, rear image method, flashing red light method, synoptic machine method and so on have very good effect, different causes of amblyopia, there will be different treatment methods, which requires professional ophthalmologist’s judgment, little layla is the most common covering method, the normal vision of the eye to cover, so as to force the “lazy eye” to work hard. This forces the “lazy eye” to work harder. The critical period for amblyopia treatment is from 0-3 years old, the sensitive period is from 3-8 years old, and after 12 years old, the chances of recovering vision are diminishing. The younger the age, the better the treatment effect. Waking up this lazy eye is not an easy thing, it requires long-term follow-up by professional doctors, patient help from parents and active cooperation from children. Most children are very resistant to the masking treatment, and what Layla’s father has done is worth following – no matter how much effort you put in, as long as your child has a pair of healthy and bright eyes, it’s all worth it.