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We contradict 5 false myths about contact lenses

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Are contact lenses difficult to use? Can they slip behind the eye? Are all of them expensive? These are some of the rumours that exist about contact lenses.

Incorrect rumours that take away supporters to a treatment option of visual problems with many advantages. Biòptic explains to you the truth about contact lenses contradicting 5 myths, one by one.

 1. Do contact lenses play the same function as glasses?

Many people believe that contact lenses can only be used for certain visual problems, but these can actually correct all the visual problems, such as myopia, astigmatism, hyperopia and even presbyopia. The design of the contact lenses for presbyopia has advanced so much so that it exists contact lenses with progressive designs that allow to see at near and far distances. In fact, the contact lenses have the same function as glasses with the advantage that the visual area amplitude increases.

2. Are contact lenses uncomfortable, difficult to put on and maintain?

Since years ago, contact lenses are being made with a soft material, that allows great comfort. Moreover, your optician-optometrist will recommend you the adequate  type of contact lense according to your eye parametres. Depending on the hours you have to use them daily, the meaures of your eye and the graduation, the contact lense will be one or another.

To put on and to maintain them turns out to be easy with the advice of your optician-optometrist. Many of the designs nowadays are disposable, which allows one to wear for the first time contact lenses every day. The maintenance is very easy thanks to the multipurpose solutions.

3. Is my age appropriate to wear contact lenses?

To be able to wear contact lense does not depend on the age! The market offers a wide variety of contact lenses and therefore we can find appropriate contact lenses for all ages.

Many adult people prefer glasses because of an aesthetic question and others, such as sportsmen, because of a practical and security question, since there is no risk that contact lenses get broken if these fall down. With respect to children, a study says that 3 out of 4 children with glasses do not practise sport or do not play because they are afraid of breaking them and they would like to use contact lenses.

4.Can contact lenses slip behind the eyes and stick to these?

Both believes are false. Contact lenses can not slip behind the eye in any circumstance because this is physically impossible. And even though the eye can dry up, a correct usage of artificial tears will avoid any problem.

5. Are all contact lenses expensive?

In the same way that a variety of contact lenses exists to treat different visual problems, there are contact lenses that fit all budgets.

Biòptic took part in the VIII edition of the contactology forum carried out at FOOT

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Last November 11th we attended the 8th edition of the Contactology Forum organized by the Facultad de Óptica y Optometría de Terrassa. The event was sponsored by 15 laboratories dedicated to contact lenses and maintenance products.

During the journey different conferences are organized with subjects related to present time and of interest  about the optician’s and optometry’s world. The main objective of this meeting is to pick up the different opinions of the professional people that attend, in order to be able to speak deeply about the different subjects.

In this edition the subjects explained were:

. The last advances and treatment for the dry eye.

. Multi-focal contact lenses’ adaptation.

. The importance of the social network in our cabinet.

Continually, laboratories are investigating in order to achieve a better vision with the usage of contact lenses. In this case, we have focused on finding solutions for the users that have a double problem such  as presbyopia and dry eye.

Starting from 40 years, lots of people decide to give up the usage of contact lenses for these reasons, that is why it is very important to be updated with the last advances regarding artificial tears and the materials the contact lenses are made of.

By means of these studies we try to find out the better results so that our patients can benefit from this.

Ortho-k contact lenses, your allied contact lenses this summer for 3 reasons

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The beach sand can easily get into your eyes, which can make the conventional contact lenses, those used during the day, leap. To suffer a blow in the swimming pool or a bycicle fall can also lead to the traditional contact lenses loss, which can even get broken. These are only three examples from a big list of summer holidays moments that prove that wearing glasses or conventional contact lenses is not always the most comfortable option. Can you imagine a type of contact lenses that one uses during the night and which allow one to have a clear vision during the day without wearing anything in the eye? The ortho-k contact lenses will turn out to be your best allied contact lenses during summer time for these main reasons: security, comfort and health.

 

  • The most secure option

Since these contact lenses are nocturnal, the vision is clear during the day without wearing any type of contact lense in the eye. This is possible because the Ortho-k contact lenses apply the Refractive Corneal Therapy (CRT), which modifies the corneal curve correcting the myopia. This is the most secure option, since it is impossible to harm our eyes, because we do not wear any contact lense. This is an absolutely secure treatment, since it has been approved by the United States FDA, which is the american health organization and also from the European Community.

 

  • The comfort of wearing no contact lenses

The fact of wearing neither contact lenses nor glasses, because the Ortho-k contact lenses correct the myopia during the night, makes the probability of irritation and inconveniences typical of the conventional contact lenses decrease. In a period where the sport, beach or swimming pool activities are more appropriate, the fact of wearing neither contact lenses nor glasses is a pleasure. Despite this, one must  not forget about the sunglasses, especially in the case of children.

 

  • A matter of health: to slow down the myopia

The therapy applied by means of the Ortho-k contact lenses, the Refractive Corneal Therapy, is the best one to slow down the myopia with significant results. These contact lenses become the unique choice to surgery, ill-advised in the case of children and young people with evolutionary myopia and in other particular cases.

Did not you know the Ortho-k contact lenses? Get in touch with us or fix an appointment for more information!

 

The 5 advices to come back to school that no list includes

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The vast majority of advices lists to face coming back to school with success do not include the visual health between the most important things to take into account. But this means the key to fight the school failure, since the 80% of the information explained at class enters through the eyes. Do you want to know all the advices in order to take care of your children vision when coming back to school this year?

 

1. Less video games, tablets and mobile phones and more homework

During the summer holidays, some children have spent a lot of hours every day in front of electronic devices. Experts recommend that, once the course has started, parents should agree with them a restricted usage of these devices and also to give more importance to homework. Screens as well as books must be situated 35-40cms. distance from the eyes.

 

2. To establish a good space to study

Any part of home does not mean the best place to study. Parents must provide their children with an appropriate and fixed place, with comfortable chair and table and an adequate temperature. In order to take care of their vision, the room must have natural light, whenever it is possible. The artificial light will be used with the main purpose to avoid shadows. The lack of light can lead to visual fatigue, that is why the chosen room to study should have a lamp that gives off natural light as well as an adjustable table-lamp.

 

3. Vision needs to rest while studying

It is suggested to rest the vision from the books or screens every 20 minutes. To have a rest does  not mean that children have to stop studying, but simply by doing the following exercise: to raise the sight and look at some far-off object during some seconds before concentrating again to look at the near material they are working with.

 

4. Does your child turn his/her head when reading or writing?

This is one of the signs that can tell you that your child suffers a visual problem. Also: to blink constantly, to approach too much to books while reading, to half-close the eyes, the readness of these or the rejection to reading.

In some cases, these visual problems will be corrected by means of glasses or contact lenses, but if the problem is of vision accommodation, of eyes coordination or of perception of the environment, among others, it is the Visual Therapy that can solve the problem. This therapy consists of various customized exercises that reeducate the sight of children bettering and correcting the visual and perceptual skills.

 

5. The annual revision, in september

To visit the optician-optometrist in order to check the children vision, must be done, at least, once a year. If you have noticed some of the symptoms mentioned above, september is the best moment to carry out the revision. The school learning is directly linked to the vision and hence when a visual problem appears, children are not able to develop their highest potential.