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Can an albino person with nystagmus have laser eye surgery or LASIK?
Can someone tell me more about nystagmus and how it can be treated? Can a near-sighted person with nystagmus undergo laser surgery? Thanks!
Answer: Unfortunately, there are no effective treatments for nystagmus. If you are albino, the albinism is causing your reduced vision, not the nystagmus.
LASIK is a substitute for glasses. Since glasses don't correct nystagmus LASIK won't either.
The movement of the eye will make it very difficult for the laser surgery to work properly and I doubt if any surgeon would agree to do it.
