If you are willing to go through a surgery or exercises.

Treating lazy eye. Amblyopia is treated by an eye specialist (ophthalmologist) and an orthoptist (a specialist in childhood eye problems). The younger the child is when a lazy eye is diagnosed, the more successful treatment is likely to be. If treatment is started after the age of eight, it is unlikely to be as successful. The two main treatment options for amblyopia are: * treating, or correcting, any underlying eye problems, and * making the affected eye work so that vision can develop properly. Treating underlying eye problems Vision problems, such as long or short sightedness, can be corrected using glasses. However, you may not realise that your child has a vision problem unless their sight is tested. For example, if your child has anisometropia, the sight in one eye will be good and will become the main source of vision, but amblyopia may develop in the eye that is not being used. Cataracts can be removed to treat blurred and distorted vision. Making the affected eye work A number of different treatments options can be used in order to make the affected eye work. These include: * Using a patch (also known as occulation). A patch is placed over the good eye so that the lazy eye is forced to work. The length of time the child will need to wear the patch will depend on how old they are, and how serious the problem is. Most children will need to wear the patch for a few hours a day for several weeks. While the patch is on, the child should do close-up activities, such as colouring, reading or schoolwork. Patches can be worn with glasses. * Eye drops - atropine eye drops can be used to blur the vision in the good eye. They should be used once a day. * Eye surgery - if the condition is caused by another problem, such as a squint or a cataract, surgery may be needed. Patch treatment may also be used after the operation. * Vision therapy is sometimes used to help your child's vision to develop. It involves using exercises and games that require your child to use their affected eye. "Lazy Eye" Treatment Shows Promise In Adults. New evidence from a laboratory study and a pilot clinical trial confirms the promise of a simple treatment for amblyopia, or "lazy eye," according to researchers from the U.S. and China. The treatment was effective on 20-year-old subjects. Amblyopia was considered mostly irreversible after age eight. Many amblyopes, especially in developing countries, are diagnosed too late for conventional treatment with an eye patch. The disorder affects about nine million people in the U.S. alone. Results from the laboratory study will be published online the week of Mar. 3 in PNAS Early Edition. Patients seeking treatment will need to wait for eye doctors to adopt the non-surgical procedure in their clinics, said Zhong-Lin Lu, the University of Southern California neuroscientist who led the research group. "I would be very happy to have some clinicians use the procedure to treat patients. It will take some time for them to be convinced," Lu said. "We also have a lot of research to do to make the procedure better." In a pilot clinical trial at a Beijing hospital in 2007, 28 out of 30 patients showed dramatic gains after a 10-day course of treatment, Lu said. "After training, they start to use both eyes. Some people got to 20/20. By clinical standards, they're completely normal. They're not amblyopes anymore." The gains averaged two to three lines on a standard eye chart. Previous studies by Lu's group found that the improvement is long-lasting, with 90 percent of vision gain retained after at least a year. "This is a brilliant study that addresses a very important issue," said Dennis Levi, dean of optometry at the University of California, Berkeley. Levi was not involved in the study. "The results have important implications for the treatment of amblyopia and possibly other clinical conditions." The PNAS study shows that the benefit of the training protocol which involves a very simple visual task goes far beyond the task itself. Amblyopes trained on just one task improved their overall vision, Lu said. The improvement was much greater for amblyopes than for normal subjects, Lu added. "For amblyopes, the neural wiring is messed up. Any improvement you can give to the system may have much larger impacts on the system than for normals," he said. The Lu group's findings also have major theoretical implications. The assumption of incurability for amblyopia rested on the notion of "critical period": that the visual system loses its plasticity and ability to change after a certain age. The theory of critical period arose in part from experiments on the visual system of animals by David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel of Harvard Medical School, who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Roger Sperry of Caltech. "This is a challenge to the idea of critical period," Lu said. "The system is much more plastic than the idea of critical period implies. The fact that we can drastically change people's vision at age 20 says something." A critical period still exists for certain functions, Lu added, but it might be more limited than previously thought. "Amblyopia is a great model to re-examine the notion of critical period," Lu said. The first study by Lu's group on the plasticity of amblyopic brains was published in the journal Vision Research in 2006 and attracted wide media attention. Since then, Lu has received hundreds of emails from adult amblyopes who had assumed they were beyond help. Berkeley's Levi cautioned that the clinical usefulness of perceptual learning, as Lu calls his treatment, remains a "sixty-four thousand dollar question." "It's clear that perceptual learning in a lab setting is effective," Levi said. "However, ultimately it needs to be adopted by clinicians and that will probably require multi-center clinical trials." Lu is collecting patients' names for possible future clinical trials. The researchers are also working to develop a home-based treatment program. For patients who can travel, the Chinese hospital that hosted the pilot trial may be able to provide treatment. The other members of Lu's group are Chang-Bing Huang and Yifeng Zhou of the Vision Research Lab at the University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, Anhui province (Huang is currently a postdoc in Lu's lab at USC). Funding for the research came from the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation and the U.S. National Eye Institute. ABOUT AMBLYOPIA Amblyopia affects about 3 percent of the population and cannot be rectified with glasses. People with the disorder suffer a range of symptoms: poor vision in one eye, poor depth perception, difficulty seeing three-dimensional objects, and poor motion sensitivity. Also known as lazy eye, the disorder is caused by poor transmission of images from the eye to the brain during early childhood, leading to abnormal brain development. Lazy eye is actually a misnomer because in many cases the structure of the eye is normal.

I think you can cure lazy eye. I was 16 years old when i was diagnosed with lazy eye. At that time my doctor told me that lazy eye can only be treated till 16 years of age. My eye sight was -3.75 in one eye and i was beginning to squint and was losing hope. my eye sepcialist recommended me some gas permeable hard contact lens for my weak eye and i wore it for 5 years. Now at 25 years of age, my sight has improved to -0.5 and i can see normally now. I used to exercise as well, like patching my strong eye while watching tv and it helped a lot. i think eye exercise is must.