Side effect of eye patching
If you are looking for side effects of wearing an eyepatch you are probably having a kid at home with
lazy eye, or you having a lazy eye quite right
there are a number of side effects of using eye patching below are some:
Eye patching
cause eye irritation: having an eye patch from an adhesive is known to cause
serious skin irritation, however this can be reverse by rotating the adhesive part of the eye
patch , so that no any part of the skin will have the adhesive staying very
long on it,
The eye
patching can weaken the normal eye, blocking the normal eye from vision can
cause a serious problem to it in time, just like not using your left hand as often as
the right hand made it less muscular and stronger than the right one, similarly
not using the normal eye will degenerate it to a weaker eye. However is as to
be done over for a very long time before before it will have any significant
impact on the eye.
Alternatively you can use other measures that are
safer to correct lazy eye,
·
Using glasses: a
lazy eye can be corrected using a programmable digital eye glasses, these
glasses are effective as eye patches.
·
,atropine drop:
this can be used to treat lazy eye in children , a daily dosage of atropine
drop can be given to a child, and within
a period of six month a significant improvement can be seen and this works as
well like eye patching. One interesting thing about this atropine drug is that
, it does not cause skin irritation, and seems to be more comfortable to
children, as some children may dislike using eye patching. This treatment is
more effective when use on children , as
amblyopia development is more pronounced in childhood than adulthood.
