If you have myopia, instead of wearing eye glasses, you may wish to consider wearing contact lens. Wearing contact lens offers many conveniences that you may otherwise not have with wearing eye glasses. In fact, they may even help slow down the rate of increase of your worsening eyesight.
Myopia affects between 25% and 35% of the adult population in the US. In Singapore, particularly, the government who is concerned about the increasing trends of myopia in children, started a campaign to bring more awareness of how to prevent this condition from developing.
Myopia is shortsightedness or near-sightedness. This happens when your eye is unable to focus on distant objects. Your vision appears blurred. Mostly, myopia is considered a variation from normal vision, rather than a medical condition. Contact lens have to be fitted to your own eyesight needs.
They have to be prescribed according to your eye power and to correct your vision. Contact lens for myopia is thinner at the center than at the edges. These lenses are called minus, or concave. They spread the light away from the center of the lens and move the focal point of the light forward, so that it reaches the retina.
Recent studies show that weearing gas permeable lens can help control Progressive myopia. While gas permeable contact lens will not cure or stop progressive myopia, they appear to help slow down its growth. As a result of these studies, many eye care professionals continue to prescribe them for this purpose.
Wearing contact lenses for myopia are better if you are performing sports activities. Just imagine if you are on the football field wearing a pair of glasses? Or if you are jogging in the park? Or what can you do if you need to swim?
Many children and most teens prefer wearing contact lens for myopia as they are self conscious about their looks and appearance. If they hide behind their glasses and shy away from the crowd, this will inevitably affect their personality, their performance in school, even their future. Once they start wearing contact lens for myopia, many shy kids come out of their shell and begin participating more in life.
It has also been found by eye care professionals that children tend to take wearing contact lens more seriously than adults. Children are also more diligent about taking care and the cleaning of their contact lens for myopia. In fact, no eye care professional will prescribe contact lenses for myopia for children or teenagers who appear not to be ready for them.
Admittedly, most people feel as if your eyes look bigger and brighter when you wear contact lens for myopia. You can enhance your appearance if you do not have a pair of eyeglasses sitting on your nose. Nowadays even prescription lens come in different colour shades. This can make your pair of eyes look interesting - change a colour every day!
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Published by Evelyn Lim on November 15, 2006 08:08 PM
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