Mapping Your News

For millions of people, contact lenses have become a popular medical device to help them improve their sight. Contact lenses are thin discs that are either transparent or have a color tint that you insert in the eyes. The exterior of the lenses are properly shaped to improve one’s sight. The lenses are made to fit the exterior of the cornea. Today, contact lenses are usually soft, but hard lenses are still offered. As many more people become interested in wearing contact lenses, they have many questions such as if there are age limits for wearing contact lenses.

Contact lenses are an effective and safe method to correct one’s vision. There is no actual age limit to wearing contact lenses. Even toddlers can be fitted with extended wear lenses. Contact lenses have often been used in premature infants who have an underdeveloped retina at birth and are at risk of blindness. It is about the age of 9 years when children will start to wear daily wear lenses and practice lens maintenance and care. Contact lenses especially hard lenses tend to help slow down eye deterioration. As soon as the vision correction need is identified, contact lenses can be considered a possible option. With proper lens care, infants, young children, adults, and the elderly can wear contact lenses.  Read more...

Throughout our lives, our eyes can undergo many conditions that can affect one’s sight. One such eye condition many people become afflicted with is astigmatism. When light enters the eye, it must bend properly so that it creates a sharp image. The layer on the surface of the eye called the cornea is the layer that bends light when it penetrates the eye. The cornea should be completely round, however; the cornea will often become a different shape. Astigmatism is a condition in which the cornea is oval. The result is a smeared condition where lines in one direction will be sharp while lines in another direction will be blurry. This condition creates a blurry image affecting the distance and near sharpness. For those with astigmatism, wearing contact lenses has become a method of correcting the condition to allow one to improve their sight.

Contact lenses for people with astigmatism have an additional element called a toric lens. This lens will bend the light to counteract the effects of astigmatism. The heavier side will cover the bottom of the eye which makes sure that the right part of the lens is over the right part of the eye. The contact lens rests on the bottom of the lens to help hold the lens in position. This allows the light to enter the eye to be distributes properly which improves one’s sight. As the patient blinks the contact lens could constantly rotate, but the heaviness part of the lens keeps it from rotating.  Read more...