| There are lots of ways to look after our eyesight. | | | | to wear all day but worn overnight, they should put |
| Maintaining a healthy diet and wearing sunglasses are | | | | enough pressure on the eyeball to temporarily change |
| a good start. Regular eye checks are also essential to | | | | the shape of the eye, thus restoring normal vision. |
| make sure our eyesight is corrected when necessary | | | | Corneal topography, where the curvature of the eye is |
| and also to pick up any of a number of ailments that | | | | measured, is used to determine the right amount of |
| our optician is privy to. | | | | pressure needed. A little more pressure than is |
| For those who need their vision correcting, trends have | | | | necessary will be added to prevent the cornea |
| come on a long way in the last few years. From those | | | | springing straight back into shape therefore allowing |
| ugly national health cheapies that we were subject to | | | | the corrected vision to last all day. In some cases, the |
| a few years ago, we now have the endless choice of | | | | effects will last more than one day and so it wouldn't |
| designer frames as well as frameless glasses, glasses | | | | hurt if you missed a night or two, although the vision |
| with bendy frames for the accident prone, designer | | | | would gradually deteriorate. |
| sunglasses and contact lenses. | | | | Weighting the eyeballs into a more natural shape is not |
| Contact lenses have, themselves, come on leaps and | | | | a new thing. It is believed that for centuries, the |
| bounds with the new technology that is available. The | | | | Chinese have slept with small weights on their eyelids |
| more advanced they become, the more people are | | | | to counteract short-sightedness. However, their |
| able to use them. At first, there were only the hard | | | | technique was always a little hit and miss given that |
| type and not many people could wear them | | | | each person has a slightly different curve to their lens. |
| comfortably. Then there were softer types, short term | | | | With today's technology, the results are much more |
| lenses and long term options. However, it has always | | | | marked with up to 70 per cent vision correction after |
| been a rule of thumb that if you wear contact lenses, | | | | one night and full vision restored within a week. |
| you should take them out at night to reduce the risk of | | | | If short-sightedness is caught in early childhood it is |
| a nasty eye infection. | | | | thought that this method might lead to permanent |
| The latest development in the arena of eye care is the | | | | correction. If nothing else, it will slow the degeneration |
| innovative contact lenses that are to be worn at night | | | | process. However, the method is not suitable for |
| which promise to correct your eyesight for the | | | | diabetics, for those with eye diseases or for |
| following day. The idea is that the lenses gently press | | | | long-sightedness. |
| on the eyeball to restore the natural shape that is | | | | The new developments in eye care are good news |
| missing in a person who is short sighted, something | | | | for the millions of sufferers of short-sightedness. It |
| that affects around 12 million people in the UK. | | | | means they can spend all night in their corrective |
| When the eyeball is too long or the cornea is too | | | | lenses, then spend all day wearing sunglasses, whether |
| curved, light rays from distant objects focus in front of | | | | designer or other, and not have to worry about |
| the retina as opposed to directly on it which bakes the | | | | wearing corrective glasses. |
| vision fuzzy. Hard lenses are usually too uncomfortable | | | | |