22 Sep
What is Ansiometropia and how is it treated?
Ansiometropia is an eye condition that causes variable vision and/ or blurring. It can arise because there is a big difference between the prescirptions of the two eyes and the brain can not cope. A person may become aware of the condition when their opthamolgist has difficulty getting a full correction of his or her vision.
Sometimes the condition arises spontaneously. Othertimes it is a result of refractive surgory being performed on one eye only, as sometimes happened 10 to 15 years ago in the private sector.
A common way to treat it is by performing refractive surgery on the weakest eye to bring it closer to the strongest eye, or even by fully correcting both eyes in this way.