ABSTRACT
There are three main reasons why this situation arises. The first is one of binocular confusion, wherein the child’s eyes are not aligned, ie has a squint from birth, and it is not possible because of failure of retinal correspondence to fuse the images transmitted from each eye. In such a state of confusion the brain suppresses the image of the squinting eye-hence, if uncorrected, the condition of strabismic amblyopia, ie failure of vision to develop because of the failure of the image to correspond with that of the straight eye.
