Diagnosing and Managing Lazy Eye | Monica Khitri, MD | UCLAMDChat

UCLA pediatric ophthalmologist Monica Khitri, MD, discusses the development of amblyopia, more commonly known as “lazy eye.” She addresses risk factors as well as diagnosis, prevention, and management for children.

[@ry1774]

not only am i lazy,so is my eye. hooray

[@jiminslostjams653]

Me bruh and also army 🤠

[@angelarohr2479]

Ur not. Stand up

[@zozzhirro4990]

@@angelarohr2479 .

[@jayb5560]

Im currently 25 years old unfortunately my parents didn’t patch my eye , im hoping one day there is a cure for adults

[@sheenaslater]

Check into vision therapy!! There Is still hope for you! No matter your age.

[@haiderqureshi8217]

Is there any website

[@arvindbardeskar9087]

Same thing Even my good eye needs lenses

[@lee.y9687]

Arvind Bardeskar when it's night time don't sleep. If u look at darkness lazy can get fixed for adults

[@yannazamolo6282]

Same :> i'm 12.. i got my surgery when i was around 2-5 .. my parents didn't patch my good eye because they don't want me struggle .. so yea...

[@charld]

best video I've found on the topic, clear explanations thank you

[@houssamghanem2927]

Clear explanations, very good job. Thank u

[@lishanlow2903]

Thank you so much Dr Monica. This is a fantastic lecture and I understood this topic so well.

[@lewismeade9715]

Thank you for this vid I’m very grateful

[@suryarrrr]

Thank you ! My son is having a slight lazy eye - time to take him to a Eye Doctor and maybe start training his lazy eye.

[@neha7840]

I'm 17 suffering from strabismus. I neither takes pictures of me nor talks with anyone looking directly into their eyes. I feel shy and wanna get rid of it very soon.

[@tpnphoenix3367]

Me too I try to avoid direct contact although when I mu face is facing the same way as my body mu eye is straight

[@muzi89]

Yes i too hates to take pictures of mysf coz of my squint eye!! Olso i hv very very less vision!! I see the whole world with my right eye😢

[@Happybep]

I have it too and had a surgery but only if I do not wear glasses my right eye will look more straight, if I need to put it on to see clear bcs of my left eye, the right one will be concentrating so hard... But better I stay that way and be satisfied than risk to get blind by another surgery

[@eddiemolina5865]

Honestly it don't matter. You know who's real. Cuz the fake ones talk about something that doesn't matter

[@redstoneclasher2675]

I'm 17 too

[@jayangwangdue2879]

Thankyou for puting up such wonderful lecture

[@SparkyOne549]

I was diagnosed and treated for amblyopia when the medical field thought it was an eye problem when I was 2yo. I had to wear a patch and also had to wear glasses. Then I don’t know how long I had the patch for, but I do remember not having to wear the patch and glasses anymore! In my teens I had myopia so I had to wear glasses. Then in my mid 30’s I was seeing double, and found out I had astigmatism also, and I was diagnosed with amblyopia AGAIN. So, now in my 40’s... i developed Nystagmus but only when I really try to focus on something, so that’s not all the time thankfully. I hit more walls doors and furniture than anyone and have bruises to prove it... also I can never find what I’m looking for, my boyfriend has to help me all the time. I have periodic strabismus , where my right eye will turn and stay when I’m tired.

[@rachelh6826]

I'm 34 and was diagnosed the amblyopia when I was around 3 or 4. My parents tried patching my eye but I kept pulling it off when they weren't looking, so it was unsuccessful. I ended up losing vision in my dominant eye when I was around 10 and I now have to wear a contact in my 'good' eye. Thank you for this in-depth explanation.

[@fh3486]

My 1 year has this condition.

[@JungleEd17]

I think there is a solution: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnSmpaOemb2bp5o&pbjreload=10 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5e2aHhvndOfmdU

[@soha4kt]

I have the sack same thing!

[@stickshiftdriver1832]

I am very nearsighted. I am 55 yeara old and had a retina detachment when I turned 50. I was told that my vision would never get back to where is was unless I have cataract surgery. I didn't get the surgery yet. I slowly started patching my good eye and training my operated eye to take in light and focus on shspes of images through the blurriness. I could say that I starting to see improvement in that it

[@batfly]

Monica Khitri gives me hope in the youth of today.

[@gaylecheung3087]

Thank you ♥️

[@CaptWinn]

Thanks doctor

[@gibble1176]

I can make m eye lazy whenever I want. Although if I were to look into like a peep hole and dont close my other eye. That eye will get lazy. it is as if it adjusts to give me a better view.

[@92_Azhar]

This method has already fixed the eyes of two family members.

[@bhpatel9693]

Thank u somch making this video

[@sweetdreams2130]

very nice presentation

[@senpaiimax9148]

I've noticed my eye goes to a side when people take pictures of me with the flash on.

[@stoopidputo1292]

Maximiliano Diaz Vasquez same with me and I hate it and I hate when people look at me in school :(

[@straberi9212]

@@stoopidputo1292 same :(( i try my best to hide it

[@machomalli]

My prescription was, if I remember it correctly was polycarbonate lenses for a monoocular patient!!

[@Crosstongue]

I remembered having a 2020 vision in my physical exams but I developed a lazy eye lately. I think lazy eye is worse than 2 eyes with prescription at least both will be corrected. My doctor did not put any prescription on my left eye cause no matter what grade he puts the vision of my left eye will not improve . So sad.

[@machomalli]

I have refractive error amblyopia, I hope medical community would come up with a permanent solution for it soon!!

[@bryan25cool]

I am 21 years old and I am suffering lazy eye in my right eye that causes blur of image and misalignment of the eye. Can I still fix it through patching the dominant eye?

[@reignrelic]

Help!! How do you fix and eye being higher than the other?

[@johannejoseph3474]

Thank you Doctor. I'm going to take my newborn to a eye Doctor.

[@antoniostorcke]

You will know within the first 4 years of life. You can also play a game with the child where one eye is covered and the child may have to identify an object or something in a picture.

[@Anzarkashmiri786]

Very good Opthamalogy lecture keep going

[@theoofsquad9477]

I have the corneal opacity type, and the 3 possible causes are short sightedness, long sightedness and astigmatism - I have short sightedness and astigmatism, are they both causes of my amblyopia?

[@emilyjohnston8102]

being raised in the 90s, my glasses were made of metal and scratched my ears/head. i used to hide them. lol

[@nyumpibagra9422]

Iam 24 years old,my parents had patched my eyes when I was 11 years old.. Bt still find it very difficult to see from my right eye(almost dark vision) so m afraid if I'll loose my sight one day(the right eye)... n to prevent it should I do the patch technique again??

[@ellecastillo4238]

I have lazy eye also and now I'm 11 yrs old I started wearing eyeglasses when I was a kinder. I hope that someday my vision will improved I just watch this because I'm really curious about lazy eye. From Philippines.

[@user-wb7lh8mw4o]

same...

[@nathanielhiggerson7679]

Can you patch the good eye in an adult and it will help too?

[@nestorenriquez3284]

I believe you have my stapler the good eye is commonly patched so that the other eye is stimulated. But, the good eye should also get a chance to be stimulated too.

[@JungleEd17]

I think there is a chance: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnSmpaOemb2bp5o&pbjreload=10 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5e2aHhvndOfmdU

[@sonugumbhir4232]

My son is turned 4 in July. Last year, when he was 3 year old was detected with Squint(Eye no. Rightt: +.75,-2.0,180, Left: 0,-1.0,180). His Right eye was weak till Oct'19. After that we dilated his Left eye with Atropine Sulphate ointment for a month in Feburary'20. Now when we did diagnosis again, his Right eye has 6/9 vision while his Left eye vision reduced to 6/60. New Eye no.(Right: +3,-3.5,180, Left: +3.5,-3.5,180) Can patching on right will help to regain the vision. Can you suggest what we should do any exercise etc... Please help

[@moimaris3369]

I never had a lazy eye. Zero. Untill I got molested. The trauma causes stress and my eye turned to my nose. I had eye muscle pain for 13 months. After 13 months the pain disappeared and mhm eye is permanently lazy. I'm proof that you can turn a normal eye into a lazy eye and vice versa it will be possible top.

[@xh7385]

Thank you Dr Khitri, my child aged one year and one month has amblyopia, today the ophthalmologic doctor from hospital told us to eye patch him for at least one week before next week's exam prior to strabismus surgery, but we couldn't manage to have him eye patched, is there any suggestion or hint?

[@giannachacon1846]

Hi, I have amblyopia strabismus in addition to eye patching, which can be hard for children. I used to take mine off! There are eye drops that you can place in the dominant eye that blurt the vision me “act” as patch. It can be good alternative for kids ask your doc about it.

[@chicolee1227]

I played videos games witch I usually don't do when I trip but I did it specifically for the workout

[@shawnpaul2141]

hey, i have a lazy eye, if i put a virtual reality headset. will i be able to see like everyone else and realy see or not? thank you!

[@lifewjaii6254]

I never had this problem till I was 13 and I still have it 4 years later

[@Limei_Dreams]

uh oh. I'm 13 and I just noticed this problem My right eyelid's been drooping the past few months. Guess I'm screwed

[@cholisejones2651]

It only happens when I look to the side. I never knew ugly it looked till I looked in the mirror in that angle. Welcome to the club tho 😭

[@snehanaik4409]

Appreciated good piece of information. My 5 years daughter is having +3.5 power in both eyes (she can’t read long distance letters ) . Now we have started with patches. Question is : 1. Is it good if she watches TV with Patches ? 2. How many hours of the day we have to use that patch on eye ?

[@nusaira4874]

Is she improving?

[@BOT-qg4lq]

I have a lazy eye either. Technically, a sniper condition.

[@mitzlizardo]

I am 34 and my rigtht eye has a higher number of -9 sph, -4 cyl as compared to my left eye which is -1 spy , -1.25 cyl. Is this Amblyopia? I have been suggested a eye surgery - ICL ( Implantable Contact Lens) in my right eye. Is the ICL surgery also one of the ways of Refractive surgery?

[@khanzada3720]

Mithul Desai did you get your surgery ?? I have same issue

[@emmylooloox]

My parents found out about my lazy eye when I was in 1st grade in 1996. I wore glasses and a patch. I didn't peek and I spent an entire school year wearing a patch. All it did was make me blind the whole year. It didn't help me sadly and I still can't see out of my left eye.

[@ewi30114]

Similar situation but such is life. You’re still beautiful.

[@giannachacon1846]

My situation was very similar! I received eye muscle surgery with adjustable sutures from Dr. Khitri a few years ago and she did a wonderful job. My left eye is esotropia but the surgery corrected the position and even though it was mainly cosmetic I did notice improvement in my peripheral vision. I can now see objects even if they are blurry on my left side and when I’m driving I can see into the left review mirror. Another eye doctor I went to at Northwestern speculated that the reason the eye patching and glasses didn’t work for me as a child is bc the eye prescription difference between the two eyes could’ve been to significant. I came across this article from 2008 about lens implants that is being explored as a treatment for amblyopia in children and think this could possible have been similar to what happened to me as kid, except obviously as a kid in the 90’s/2000’s this wasn’t an option. It’s kinda interesting that the field is exploring ICL/IOL surgery for adults with amblyopia: www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lens-implant-offers-chance-beating-lazy-eye-flna1c9451913

[@ibrahimelarbaji7895]

With all this medical advancement there is no solution for the lazy eye for adults it is a shame for them

[@sunandanehere8703]

Very informative lecture

[@ohaerililian1835]

My son has squints and he currently uses glasses. They are asking us to embark on surgery. But like you said their eyes are still developing.. kindly advise Accordingly.. thanks

[@mausampradhan550]

Can the optic nerve be a reason for lazy eye?

[@cholisejones2651]

My eyes get weird when I look to the right. I have extreme double vision and it’s diagonal . My parents said every body does this? But I don’t think it’s extreme as mine. And also my vision and the angle of my eyes are perfectly fine when I look to the left. And when I look in the mirror from the angle one eye is looking up and one is down. I can’t really seem to find anything that describes this specifically...It sucks because I ready have droopy eyes already and they are an ugly shape . And when I look straight, my eyes kinda look like this type of angle: / \ Like they are not straight and one of my eyelids are more droopy than the other. I don’t really think you can tell if my eyes are slightly uneven from the front unless you’re really looking but still.🤣 and I also just avoid looking to my right side. But I’m going to the eye doctor in two days mainly for eyesight in general tho, hopefully they can explain my specific condition tho.

[@Winsland0234]

I'm currently 27 years old now. I just found out that I have refractive amblyopia, It can't be corrected by eyeglasses, is there any cure for adults?

[@snowfill999]

👌👌👌

[@satyasairaminteriors6246]

Any one plz clarify my doubt... What is the different of lazy eye and squint eye

[@VioletRaya]

Is there anyone in the Houston area that does this??

[@moumitabanarjee7681]

When I try to look at something with the right eye closed or the eye on the right, I look very blurry. What is the remedy?

[@lecapitalist]

Smmm

[@emilyjohnston8102]

i had therapy when i was a small child and corrective lenses. my lazy eye and vision have only gotten worse. now i have double vision and pain.

[@damjanbuvari1718]

I have had it since i was born i am 16 now, my eye makes me super deppresed and i have tried everything apart from surgery

[@eddiemolina5865]

Honestly it don't matter. You know who's real. Cuz the fake ones talk about something that doesn't matter.

[@eddiemolina5865]

@Jazz . man fr no lie but aye you take pictures so u making it

[@maryjoym.barredo3956]

Hi! I don't like wearing eyeglasses. Because it doesn't cure my amblyopia. Lately, I don't have any idea what's going on to my eye. Until 2016, an optometrist said that I have amblyopia. Can I still be treated? I'm 22 yrs old. Or surgery type? Pls.Answer our questions thanks

[@yannazamolo6282]

I don't know.. i'm 12 and my right eye is bigger than my left eye because i grew up without a "real" lens on my left eye and i have lazy eyes

[@maryjoym.barredo3956]

@@yannazamolo6282 what do you mean real lens? U mean lens in your eye? The natural one?

[@muerteasecuestradores5461]

You could try vision therapy

[@shannadebostock288]

is lazy eye more when you have dyslexia? (I have lazy eyes)

[@The10darksider]

My brother has -13 myopia and causing amblyopia so no eyeglasses can help him What to do ??

[@yannazamolo6282]

I also have lazy eyes.. i look normal when i look into the mirror but when i was far people says that my left eye is going in the side .

[@anandrjpt]

Can a myopic eye suffer from amblyopia??please tell me

[@SparkyOne549]

Only from birth to 4 or 5 years old can you have amblyopia. It’s unlikely at that young age to have myopia. But an eye injury can cause amblyopia.

[@user-wb7lh8mw4o]

Am i the only 13 year old tht who has a lazy eye? My optometrist just told me yesterday and I’m scared if Imma be blind

[@amolkhobaragade]

Can amblyopia happen when being an adult?

[@SakarSubedi]

No

[@oldaccountt9164]

yes

[@Uzourath]

Well this doesn't help

[@loqzmodz9066]

After seeing my world fall together infront of me as first i have a rough childhood beatings and that, now this too im bout to end it all just want to tell you this im 13 and i have given up on life. You shouldn't, keep facade , even if im here or not i will believe in you See you on the other side

[@howardli7129]

Dont do it, I have lazy eye too

[@yannazamolo6282]

@@howardli7129 me tooooo

[@yannazamolo6282]

Don't do it.. i am born with cataract in my left eye and i had my surgery when i was 2 -5 unfortunately my sight didn't really changed .. i can only see light and some colors but they are soo blurry . They replaced my real lens into an artificial lens . My right eye is bigger than my left eye.. i haven't went into the doctor for the past years but i will be going on a check up at an eye doctor this august , i look so ugly in person 😌🤣🤣 but i do look good in mirrored images 🤣🤣 .. no one even dared to court me or something like that .. i got bullied when i was a kid ... but life must go on :> i'm turning 13 in 5 or 6 months 💖

[@enoraethan641]

I am facing lazy eyes problem.

[@rahulmaurya6675]

One or both

[@krsnaraj4767]

I had lazy eye on left eye what is the curing

[@followrana2194]

I am also facing same problem in both eyes

[@amitnarwal5890]

@@rahulmaurya6675 left

[@loqzmodz9066]

@@amitnarwal5890 After seeing my world fall together infront of me as first i have a rough childhood beatings and that, now this too im bout to end it all just want to tell you this im 13 and i have given up on life. You shouldn't, keep facade

[@vishalkurmi2169]

I am 17 and had amblyopia in my left eye and not able to read a single word

[@tamthanhpham2487]

I don't know if đông y sơn hà chữa song thị

[@raoism]

mam it is curable ?

[@Mainlyrock__1017]

I have lazy eye and serious myopia it makes my face look so weird I also suffer from a severely Asymmetric face going to the left and my lazy eye going to the right so I look really weird and unpleasant to look at. My dad described my face as wild I would definitely agree. I’m 41 never had a girlfriend have no friends I thought of suicide soo many times from in my 20s to now. I live at home with my mum who is going mad she believes when I walk by her it makes her feel faint and her heart beats too fast because of it I’ve had to ring the ambulance twice she wants me to leave and I want to leave but am having trouble finding my own place lace because I don’t work full time. My mum is nearly 70 so I don’t want to stay around her and make her worse. I feel my eye really held me back at school pupils picked on me because I wore glasses and took me for a joke. I only had 1 friend in school and he stopped talking to me. I gone through life lonely I couldn’t go places and enjoy it on my own I always wished I had friends. Now I’m losing my hair I have lots and lots of floaters in my eyes that are irritating the hell out of me. I’m shortsighted very serverly In my right eye. AaMy left eye is about 55% vision. I can’t get a decent job only agency work in warehouses and bosses shout at me a lot because I can’t work fast because I always feel tired and my bones always keep poping and clicking and aching. Every aspect of my life is crap I can’t think of one area where things are even ok.

[@yktvjay9748]

Alright so my right eye will sometimes wonder off and sometimes my left eye will wonder off but my vision is fine...so will a patch help ?

[@marjorierene427]

YKTV JAY I used patch’s all my life....they don’t work..... at all

[@yktvjay9748]

Gabriel Ryan my eye wonders off when I don’t focus or things or when I’m daydreaming but it doesn’t affect to vision...so you think the patch won’t work ?

[@aminamunir5912]

if a person has lazy eyes till age of 37, can this be treated fully? ever?

[@JungleEd17]

Might be hope: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnSmpaOemb2bp5o&pbjreload=10 kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5e2aHhvndOfmdU

[@legendboy9381]

Hy mam I am from india I cant see prparly in my glasses Doctor's says my eyes is lazy My age is 19 years old Mam can u help me Can u tell me U treat my eyes? Plzz mam help me

[@fhm4]

You need a new doctor. When your doctor said "Lazy Eye", he was avoiding doing any work. Because he does not understand "medicine" that well. This is very common in India. Ask your family if they can take you to a more ... "famous" ... hospital. Tell them that if this problem is not fixed soon, then it will become worse in the future. You will become blind. Tell them "you don't want your son to be married one day and have one blind eye, do you?"

[@legendboy9381]

@@fhm4 Ma'am, can I get an eye operation done and how much will it cost for me to do both my eye operations?

[@natanmunteanu2440]

Would my lazy eye Affect my kids

[@sazplews5297]

I can't patch my eyes since I have a lazy eye in both

[@monsoon1485]

um yes you can, I heard you can patch a single eye for two days and then the other eye for two days

[@chicolee1227]

I recomend anyone to drop a tab of acid or magic mushrooms and then patch your good eye and use your weak one helped me a shit ton

[@VisualsProd.War_]

How old are you?

[@chicolee1227]

@@VisualsProd.War_ 20

[@chicolee1227]

@@VisualsProd.War_ lsd creates connections in the brain that would otherwise be impossible its actually intresting my eye has got alot better since

[@VisualsProd.War_]

@@chicolee1227 because im 16 i was wondering if it was to late to make my left eye size go back to normal like my right 😔

[@chicolee1227]

@@VisualsProd.War_ definitely think so they make patches for glasses to cover the good eye and use the not so good eye

[@sangeethavenkatesh9132]

Pls tell in tamil

[@danispiridon7219]

"Either you've got a lazy eye or a lack of respect, witch one is it boaay?! “

[@bluestream9482]

I’m 16 is it too late

[@Achu-jx2kc]

Im 23

[@bluestream9482]

Achu 123 and have u still got it

[@maubautistamingaracal2037]

Lil Tecca

[@Mel_is_me]

I have a lazy eye -_-

[@Rsanghera]

I just can’t focus with it

[@kawsmade]

Dude I want the ssp song not this depressing shieza

[@rajeshkhatri6934]

R u khatri or khitri like brahmakshatriya?!?!