A mobile phone app has been created by eye specialists to encourage children with ‘lazy eye’ to wear a patch that helps correct the condition and ensure it is being used properly.
About one in 50 children are affected by the visual impairment amblyopia, which can usually be treated through patching therapy.
This involves the child wearing a patch over the unaffected eye – normally for three hours a day for six months – to force the ‘lazy’ eye to work.
