Contact Lenses Archives

Types of Colored Contacts: A Beginner’s Guide

Written By Louise Wood

Want to change your look? Sure, you can change your hairstyle or clothes, but an easy, fun, and temporary way to reinvent yourself is to change your eye color with different types of colored contacts.

You can match your eye color to your outfit or mood and rock any occasion. Take your pick… smoldering deep brown eyes, sparkly sky-blue eyes, mysterious smoky grey eyes. All the different types of colored contacts offer a lot of looks.

If you’re curious about color contact lenses, perhaps you’ll find some of the information I’ll offer here “eye-opening.”

Contacts for Reading: How to Tackle Presbyopia and Improve Vision

Written By Louise Wood

Remember the first time you put your contact lenses in? Ahh… love at first sight, right? You could suddenly see fabulously and felt great about not having to depend on glasses. But something’s changed, that is, your vision. Your contact lenses no longer provide the correction you need to clearly see objects both near and far. Chances are, you’re now dealing with presbyopia, and what you really need are contacts for reading.

Presbyopia is a declining ability to focus on close-up objects. When trying to read something with small type—say a restaurant menu, food package, or phone—you begin by stretching your arm further away to focus.

Presbyopia is an inevitable (but unenviable) change you’re bound to begin noticing sometime in your 40s.

Not so long ago, you had only one option to correct the problem: reading glasses. Today, you do have options. So, if you favor contacts, you need not get discouraged and trade them in for glasses.

Today, a range of contact lens options is available that deliver vision correction for different focal lengths.

Buying Contact Lenses Online: A Step-by-Step Guide

Written By Barry Silver

One-fifth of contact lenses buyers in the United States—and rising—now buy their contact lenses online, according to All About Vision. Of course, price and convenience both factor into the continued escalation of online purchases. Though the choices are many, the process of buying contact lenses online need not be confusing. Your prescription provides all the information you need.

Ready to begin buying contact lenses? Let’s look at the different types of contact lenses and how to order them properly.

Allergies and Contacts: Our Top Tips for Managing Allergy Season

Written By Michael Healy

Most people consider spring to be when allergy season strikes. Tree pollen hits hardest come early spring, but is then followed by grass pollen in the late spring, weed pollen in the summer, and ragweed pollen in the late summer and deep into fall. And, according to Purvi Parikh, MD, an allergist and immunologist with Allergy & Asthma Network, it’s always allergy season because, in addition to lengthy pollen seasons, year-round offenders include dust mites, mold, and pet dander. Allergies are especially hard on contact lens wearers. Allergies and contacts can be a tricky mix.

It’s bad enough that you wake up and your eyes feel gritty, swollen, and itchy. Then you have to put in your contact lenses. Ouch.

According to the American Optometric Association, there are approximately 45 million contact lenses wearers in the United States. Many cease wearing contact lenses due to seasonal allergies. Some stop only temporarily, while others throw in the towel and give up on wearing contacts.

But you don’t have to. Understanding the symptoms and treatment options available can bring relief and help you weather allergies and contacts issues.

Can You Wear Sunglasses With Contacts? How to Protect Your Eyes

Written By Michael Healy

If you’re like most contact lens wearers, you experienced a wonderful feeling of relief the day you started using them. Now the question is: what do you do when you head out into the bright sunlight? Can you wear sunglasses with contacts?

The answer is, yes, the combination works as well as peanut butter and jelly and provides an added level of eye protection you can’t get with contacts alone.

Read on to answer the question of can you wear sunglasses with contacts once and for all!

Types of Colored Contacts: A Beginner’s Guide

Contacts for Reading: How to Tackle Presbyopia and Improve Vision

Buying Contact Lenses Online: A Step-by-Step Guide

Allergies and Contacts: Our Top Tips for Managing Allergy Season

Can You Wear Sunglasses With Contacts? How to Protect Your Eyes

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