Why would you wear an eyepatch?

Why would you wear an eyepatch?

An eyepatch is a small patch that is worn in front of one eye. It is often worn by people to cover a lost or injured eye, but it also has a therapeutic use in children for the treatment of amblyopia (See orthoptics and vision therapy). Eyepatches used to block light while sleeping are referred to as a sleep mask.

How long should you wear an eyepatch?

A new study shows that wearing an eye patch for only two hours a day works just as well — and just as fast — as wearing the patch for six hours. It's been common wisdom that the more a kid with a lazy eye wears a patch on the good eye, the sooner his or her vision will improve.

Does wearing an eyepatch improve night vision?

When testing this, we found that when covering both eyes for long periods of time it improved our night vision. Our Hypothesis was right. With having an eye patch covering one eye, letting the other eye dilate, it improved our night vision.

Why did pirates wear an eyepatch?

Why Did Some Pirates Wear an Eye Patch? The eye patch could be used to prepare one eye to see in the dark, so when they would go below deck they could swap the eye patch from one eye to the other and see with the eye that has already adjusted to low light conditions. This would allow them to instantly see in the dark.