Jul 03
2009Wearing Contact Lenses Has its Advantages
Filed Under (fashion) by Jaxon St. James on 03-07-2009
Tagged Under : beauty, contact lens offers, contact lenses, contacts, eye care, eye exams, eye health, eyes, fashion, free contact lenses, style, vision, Vision Tests
Are you tired and annoyed with wearing eyeglasses? Are you thinking about maybe switching to wearing contacts instead? Wearing contact lenses probably isn’t as difficult as you may think and there are a number of advantages as well. Find out more by taking a minute to read this short article about wearing contacts.
A Little History
The first contacts actually date back to the 19th century, believe it or not. They were brown glass lenses and were hard to wear but helped people that could not wear eyeglasses. The big breakthroughs came about in the 1940s and 50s when plastic lenses started being made. These early plastic contact lenses were made of polymethyl methacrylte, which did not allow oxygen to pass through. The new ones are rigid gas permeable and allow oxygen to pass through. Your corneas don’t get oxygen from your blood but instead get it from the air around you, so it’s important that contacts are breathable.
Technology in contact lenses continues to improve as we’re seeing new kinds of lenses being made for people that have astigmatism or for people that need bifocal lenses.
Why is it Good to Wear Contacts?
Most people’s primary reasons for wearing contacts is for cosmetic purposes, but there are also other advantages:
* The lens moves with your eye and there is no distortion, unlike with eyeglasses.
* The frame of eyeglassescan block your side / peripheral vision.
* It’s annoying when eyeglasses steam up when you come from the cold outside into a warm room.
* Sometimes contacts are the only solution for people who need vastly different lenses for each eye.
* An injured cornea can heal faster when its protected by contacts.
So How Do You Get Contact Lenses?
You should go see your eye care professional and get an eye exam and consultation. You cannot order contact lenses with a prescription for eyeglasses. It’s a much different kind of prescription that you need. You’ll go through some simple vision tests which only take about 10-15 minutes usually. You should also get tested for Glaucoma, if possible – that’s the test that Rachel on Friends didn’t like because it shoots a tiny puff of air into your eye. It’s really not that bad and its an important test to get.
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