Benefits of Wearing Glasses

Hello to all and sundry,

It is another beautiful day today and just as we always do it, we are here once again to share health tips and facts with you, to educate and enlighten you on matters of ocular health and instigate a fruitful discussion that may impact a reader positively. Before we begin though we hope you are doing well and having a great time as always.

For today we would be discussing some of the benefits of wearing glasses and thus the reasons why you should wear your glasses if your Optometrist has prescribed one for you or the need to get your eyes checked and possibly get yourself some nice protective eye wear.

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Introduction

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Glasses or Spectacles as may rightly be referred are specially designed lenses fitted into frames for use by individuals for the purpose of aesthetics, refractive error correction, binocular vision anomalies correction, and protection. There are many reasons why your Optometrist may prescribe lenses for you. For adults 40 years and over, you may be given lenses to help you read and to support your accommodation.

This same kind of prescription may be given to a young adult who may be having accommodative insufficiency which is a binocular vision anomaly. As already mentioned your Optometrist has a reason for giving you glasses to wear and so to help yourself it is important that you wear them to make things better for you, whatever your problem may be.

The difficulties we sometimes face as health practitioners when we prescribe some of these lenses is the fact that patients do not get to fully understand why they have been given what they have been given to wear and whiles we may be thinking our explanations are enough, it may not be. It such instance, we encourage you, our dear patient or reader to make effort to ask for more information and it would duly be made available to you. A compliant patient is one who understands their condition

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Benefits of Wearing Your Prescription

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The beauty of technology has made it such that every now and then there is an improvement in various sectors of health and eye care is not exception. Tech has made is possible such that in our modern day, glasses does a whole lot for individuals that we sometimes acknowledge.

• Protection

Most Glasses are now fitted with UV rays protection, if you are lucky to have it effectivity at 100% then your eyes get the full benefit when you wear them. And on a sunny day you eyes are safe from all the harmful rays that may be roaming about in the atmostphere.

There is also the blue block technology which does a lot for computer and tech users. Studies have made us understand that when we use tech with screens blue wavelength from them tend to cause harm to our optic nerve, and some studies are even suggesting it could be a study factor for the development of glaucoma.

Now these blue-block lenses are able to keep these harmful rays at bay, thus protecting your eyes from possible damage to your optic nerve and even your macular which would have had detrimental effect to your health over time.

• Enhance Vision

Most glasses have different powers to better your vision. Based on your refractive errors your OD may prescribe a certain amount of power to help you see better as it ought to be. If you happen to be an emmetrope (the ideal eye) then you get to benefit from coatings such as the Anti-reflective property of modern lenses which makes driving at night so much better.

Some lenses are also fitted with tints which enhance clarity especially during the day whereas others makes it better to see at night. Some refer to these as night googles or night vision lenses. Whatever the case may be, you can be rest assured that if you wish to see better then lenses may do you goood.

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Conclusion

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This is definitely not an exhaustive list and there are many other reasons why it is advised that we wear lenses or our lenses prescribed by our health care provider. Remember that a compliant patient is one who understands their condition or why they may be asked to do a particular thing.

And so when i doubt, always ask, it is good to be in the know. On that note, we thank you for reading and for your time, we wish you a fruitful week. Stay safe and have wonderful time.