Eye Health Archives

How to Remove Contact Lenses and Insert Them: Our Top Safety Tips

Written By Louise Wood

Congratulations, you have contact lenses for the first time! Now what? It’s time to learn how to remove contact lenses and how to insert them — safely.

Putting something in your eye for the first time is frightening. This guide shares tricks of the trade for easy handling and a comfortable first-time experience.

When learning how to remove contact lenses and insert them again, slow and steady wins the race. Before long, with a good routine and a bit of practice, it should become as easy as brushing your teeth.

Dealing with Foggy Lenses and Mask-Associated Dry Eye

Written By Barry Silver

Sadly, right now, you need to wear a mask when you’re out in public interacting with others.

This is clear, but as a result, your vision may be unclear.

For those who wear glasses, the most common complaint is foggy lenses. Another is dry eyes. They may not be perfect, but there are remedies for both. Let’s have a look.

Wearing Contact Lenses: Top 5 Safety Tips

Written By Michael Healy

If you once wore glasses but have switched to contact lenses, you know the freedom that comes with making the switch. You’re able to exercise and participate in a number of other activities without having to worry about not being able to see clearly or breaking your glasses. But could it be possible that wearing contact lenses hinders your safety or eyesight?

We’d like to say no, but research confirms that to be true. That is, when you misuse or do not wear your contacts exactly as directed, there are risks.

Cataracts in Eyes: Your Top 10 Questions Answered!

Written By Louise Wood

Are you becoming more sensitive to light and challenged by glare? Experiencing changes in your vision? You may be developing cataracts in eyes.

You’re not alone. The National Eye Institute estimates 50 million Americans will be living with cataracts by 2050.

Following are frequently asked questions about cataracts, and of course, the answers.

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.