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Doctor prescribes Nintendo

A six-year-old boy has been given an unusual prescription to treat a lazy eye - play video games.

Ben Michaels had been referred to hospital after his school nurse noticed the problem with his sight.

But rather than just patch his eye, Ken Nischal, ophthalmic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital, recommended he play a Nintendo DS or Gameboy for two hours a day.

After a week the sight in his weak eye improved by 250%.

Ben’s mother, Maxine Michaels, said: “When he started he could not identify our faces with his weak eye.

“Now he can read with it although he is still a way off where he ought to be.

“He was very co-operative with the patch, it had phenomenal effect and we’re very pleased.”

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