Contact lenses are becoming an increasingly popular medium of vision correction. Even those who are happy to use glasses discover that there are occasions when they Yes would be able to use contact lenses.
There are a number of lifestyle questionnaires that can give you a good idea of your likely success in wearing lenses and contact lens health. their answers are marked with a number of factors such as the environment in which you live, your state of health and the overall sensitivity of their eyes.
As an optometrist with over 20 years experience in fitting contact lenses would like to discuss some issues which do not come in contact lens questionnaires health and lifestyle, but that are very important to wear lens successful.
You're as reticent about touching your eye?
There are some perfectly good candidates for contact lenses that could be very successful people, but they just clamp your eyelids closed as a lens approaches. Usually men have more problems than women because they are not used to apply eye make up.I had great sportsmen weak and fall to the ground like tried gently to prise open the covers for a lens.
The way to desensitise the same practice is playing the White portion of your eye with one finger newly washed.
How good are you with small fiddly things?
Inserting and removing contact lenses require a special talent and a reasonable quantity of handedness. now you don't have to be a concert pianist or a brain surgeon, but you need to have some sense and flexibility in the fingers. If hands are sufficiently stable to thread a needle and even small buttons have probably what you need.
How bad are your eyes when you take your glasses?
In order to put contact lenses you'll need to take your glasses.There comes a time when you need to see complicated to put the lens, but still don't have any eye correction. If you are sighted, then you can often just bring the mirror to see what they are doing. If you're longsighted, then it can often be just a big blur and then you have to be good at "feeling" the way back.
How close are your eyes?
If you have particularly deep set or narrow eyes, then can be a bit of a mission for inserting and removing lenses.There are techniques you can use to overcome the narrow eyes, but it is a little tricker.
Blinker Has a lazy eye?
Many potential carriers of contact lenses often enough or blink not quite enough.This often seems to be coming from computer use normally when staring at a computer screen flashes less and often the eyelids closed half curl, rather than a blink of eye closed properly.
If you've never experienced dry burning eyes irritated when using a computer, this may be a sign that you're not flashing properly.
There are three ways to improve your flashing:
the Forced flashes: on the hour, every hour do 10 blinks forced. If you have a digital clock you can set the timer to beep at the time as a reminder. This works in about 15% of people.
the momentary Blackness. in your schedule of 4 blinks, where you're aware of a moment of blackness. many with dry eye just curl their lids that only half closed when they blink. Buy a moment full of blackness that you'll training their lids to close completely.
the Finger contraction. place your finger on the outer edge of your eyes while watching TV and be aware of the muscles under the skin near your eyelids twitching fingers as you blink. This technique helps raise awareness of blinking.
If you have passed this self-assessment and also the questionnaire contact lens health and lifestyle, then you probably is a good candidate for wear of the lens.
