When you begin to lose your eyesight, which occurs to most of us at around the age of forty, you have two basic choices: glasses or contact lenses. Both contact lenses and spectacles have their advantages and disadvantages, so whichever you select is certainly a personal decision. However, some people have 'dry eyes', which means that the tear ducts do not irrigate the eyes as much as standard.
If someone has dry eyes, then wearing glasses will not exacerbate the condition, but if someone with dry eyes chooses to wear contact lenses for personal reasons, the condition can make their lives very uncomfortable.
Some people who wear contacts but have dry eyes will almost certainly experience a discomfort that will lead to the person rubbing their eyes, which will make the situation worse.
There may be medical reasons for the lacrimal ducts not producing enough moisture to lubricate the eyes, but age can be a factor. If you have itchy eyes and are more than sixty, it might be in your interests to change from contacts to specs.
Some individuals find it a very hard decision to take. TV personalities and film stars seldom like to be photographed wearing glasses. All right, there are not too many of them, but there are hundreds of millions of people who look up to their screen idols and copy them blindly.
One of the causes of dry eyes, besides age or personal illness, is environmental conditions. Pollution affects different individuals in different ways, but tobacco smoke affects most peoples' eyes, to say nothing of their lungs.
Evaporation is another cause of dry eyes. This sounds strange, because you would imagine that the water trapped between the eyes and the lenses could not evaporate, but a lot of contact lenses are composed of fifty percent water to make them more supple and therefore more comfortable.
A warm environment will evaporate water from the lenses and the lenses will try to replenish themselves by sucking water off your eyes - a form of osmosis. This is a good reason for soaking your contact lenses in a solution during the night. The solution is there to sterilize the lenses, but it will also permit the lenses to 'hydrate' again.
Therefore, a possible solution to the difficulty of dry eyes, if evaporation is your problem, is to replace your lenses half way through the day. another way of combatting dry eyes if you want to wear contacts, is to put drops in your eyes each hour.
You can purchase these drops from a chemist in small containers or you can buy a litre of the solution and refill your droppers yourself. However, a saline solution (salt and water) is also as effective as anything and a lot cheaper.
If none of this works for you then why not only switch to spectacles? The trend is to be more open about oneself and part of this fashion is to admit your age, wear your wig openly, if that is what you do and be| seen wearing your spectacles.
If someone has dry eyes, then wearing glasses will not exacerbate the condition, but if someone with dry eyes chooses to wear contact lenses for personal reasons, the condition can make their lives very uncomfortable.
Some people who wear contacts but have dry eyes will almost certainly experience a discomfort that will lead to the person rubbing their eyes, which will make the situation worse.
There may be medical reasons for the lacrimal ducts not producing enough moisture to lubricate the eyes, but age can be a factor. If you have itchy eyes and are more than sixty, it might be in your interests to change from contacts to specs.
Some individuals find it a very hard decision to take. TV personalities and film stars seldom like to be photographed wearing glasses. All right, there are not too many of them, but there are hundreds of millions of people who look up to their screen idols and copy them blindly.
One of the causes of dry eyes, besides age or personal illness, is environmental conditions. Pollution affects different individuals in different ways, but tobacco smoke affects most peoples' eyes, to say nothing of their lungs.
Evaporation is another cause of dry eyes. This sounds strange, because you would imagine that the water trapped between the eyes and the lenses could not evaporate, but a lot of contact lenses are composed of fifty percent water to make them more supple and therefore more comfortable.
A warm environment will evaporate water from the lenses and the lenses will try to replenish themselves by sucking water off your eyes - a form of osmosis. This is a good reason for soaking your contact lenses in a solution during the night. The solution is there to sterilize the lenses, but it will also permit the lenses to 'hydrate' again.
Therefore, a possible solution to the difficulty of dry eyes, if evaporation is your problem, is to replace your lenses half way through the day. another way of combatting dry eyes if you want to wear contacts, is to put drops in your eyes each hour.
You can purchase these drops from a chemist in small containers or you can buy a litre of the solution and refill your droppers yourself. However, a saline solution (salt and water) is also as effective as anything and a lot cheaper.
If none of this works for you then why not only switch to spectacles? The trend is to be more open about oneself and part of this fashion is to admit your age, wear your wig openly, if that is what you do and be| seen wearing your spectacles.
About the Author:
Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on several subjects, but is now involved with Designer Spectacles. If you want to know more, please go over to our website at Spectacles Direct.
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