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Monday, March 10, 2014

Exploring Contact Lenses

By Chet Sandeksi


There are millions of Americans who need corrective lenses in order to see with clarified vision. The amount of loss of vision varies from individual to individual, some have severe vision loss that requires stronger prescriptions for coping with their lost sight and others require only slight modifications to allow them to see.

No matter what the level of vision loss, one of the options for corrective lenses available to many are contact lenses, or contacts. Contacts are worn by millions of Americans to help them coup with their vision impairments yet there are still many individuals who have yet to consider contact lenses as an option for their personal needs.

Wearing contacts deprives your eyes of oxygen. Another condition that can result from this oxygen deprivation is known as corneal microcysts. Most individual vision plans give you the opportunity to see your eye doctor when you're having problems like these.

You should hope that your insurance for vision care policy is comprehensive enough that you will get the care that you need. When you hear about conditions like contact lens acute red eye (CLARE), you will want to invest in vision insurance. Luckily, vision health plans are lumped into regular medical insurance policies as long as you choose to have vision insurance.

But whether or not a person wears contacts to avoid wearing glasses, there are still several other benefits of contacts that many people do not often think of. First and foremost, contact lenses move with the eye, as opposed to regular eye glasses that simply try to cover the entire field of vision by placing a lens close to the eye.

By being able to move with the eye, a contact lens allows for a more natural field of view by the wearer and likewise enables the corrected vision to extend to the peripheral vision of the individual. Similarly, due to the contact being on the eye, the wearer does not have to deal with their field of view being obstructed by the frames of traditional eye glasses.

Conjunctivitis and acanthamoeba keratitis are two additional conditions that can result from wearing your contacts when you sleep with the second creating the potential for permanent visual impairment or blindness. As you look over this list of dire consequences, you should not think twice before taking out your contacts at the end of the day. Your eyesight is something that you should preserve for as long as you can because once it's gone, you won't be able to get it back.

Because contact lenses attach painlessly to the eye itself, many active persons prefer contacts over eye glasses. Eye glasses can be cumbersome and an overall annoyance to people who are participating in sporting events or other physical activities as well as run the risk of being broken, lost, or otherwise damaged; all of which contribute to general use of contacts in such activities and not adapted eye glasses.

The amount of time that you save in forgoing taking out your contacts is nothing compared to how much time you would have to spend undergoing and recovering from procedures geared towards restoring your eyesight to its former glory.




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