Ask:
At the age of two, my daughter was diagnosed with long vision and lazy eye. She is now four years old, she wears glasses and also a patch over her ‘good’ eye for two hours every day. Can she recommend something to improve her eyesight and treat her lazy eye?
Answer:
The muscles of our eyes are the most vital components of sight. In order to see or analyze an object, the eyeball must focus on it. The six muscles that allow each eyeball to look up, down, to the side, and obliquely also keep the eyeball steady so you can gaze, even when you move your head.
It is vital that both eyes are coordinated, otherwise you could see double. If the muscles are weak, this coordination may not be perfect and the eyes may be lazy or even crossed. I suspect that is why your child has been prescribed a patch over her ‘good’ eye so that the other eye has to work more and tone her muscles.
The eye muscles usually become weaker due to trauma at or before birth. The nerve center in the midbrain that controls the eye muscles may have been deprived of oxygen for a brief period, because the blood supply had deteriorated. Also, the pressure on the newborn’s skull as it passes through a very narrow birth canal is enough on its own to cause trauma. Nutritional deficiencies when a woman is pregnant or with a growing child can cause general fatigue, which can cause the eye muscles to become weak. The very delicate muscles behind the lens of the eye may also be involved.
You have to understand that the eye works like a camera. Light enters through an opening: the pupil dilates or constricts depending on the brightness of the light (when looking at a very bright light that could damage the sensitive retina, the pupils constrict to protect it).
What you see is projected onto the retina. To get a sharp and clear image, the eye needs to measure the focal length correctly. The muscles behind the lens control where your eyes focus by causing the lens to automatically flatten or thicken, thus shortening or lengthening the distance to the focal point, exactly as you would focus the lens on a camera.
These tiny muscles are controlled by nerves in the midbrain, which continually take in what you’re looking at and make the muscles respond accordingly. Sometimes the nerve center becomes weak due to trauma or genetic problems, so the nerves do not tell the muscles to change the size of the lenses. The result is long or short view. To correct this problem and focus the image clearly, an additional lens is needed: glasses, in other words.
Here are my suggestions to help your daughter’s vision:
* Make sure your nutrition is good; avoid store-bought sodas, especially sodas (because of the sugar, caffeine, and additives), excess cheese, pizza, candy, chocolate, and prepared and processed foods.
* Give him a cup of freshly squeezed organic carrot, apple and celery juice every other day for two months.
*Twice a week for three months, massage her neck and shoulders with Junior Massage Oil or Lifestyle Massage Oil, or make your own with two tablespoons of baby oil, two drops of eucalyptus essential oil, and five drops of lavender oil. Focus on the neck. This will improve blood flow to the brain and help the delicate nerves that control the various eye muscles.
* Give him Vitasorb multivitamins: six drops daily on the tongue for two months.
Do the following eye exercises with your child. Keep your head still: only your eyes should move. Hold each position for five seconds and repeat five times. Between each set, rub your palms together so that the friction warms them up and cover both eyes with your hands so that the heat from your palms is in contact with your eyes.
* Look up and then look down.
* Look to the right and then to the left.
* Look to the right and up, then down and to the left.
* Look up and to the left, then down and to the right
* Put your index finger in front of your nose and look at it. Move your finger in a circle and follow it with your eyes. Do this five times in one direction, then five times in the other.
*Look at a distant object, look for five seconds, then at the tip of your nose for five seconds.
*In a dark room, place a candle in front of you. Look at him for five seconds, then look away for another five seconds.
