Glasses For You Dear

The eye is the window to the soul. These words may be considered a cliché but holds truth to it. They say people who can look straight in one’s eyes have a good heart and those that can’t or find it difficult to maintain eye contact are the ones that can’t be trusted.

Well, quite true but not all the time. Jesters might argue that not all are given the perfect vision, like the cross-eyed for example. If one were asked to give the top three most important part of his body, perhaps the eyes will always be on that list. Losing your eyesight is like living in a world of darkness all the time.

If you are given that perfect eyesight, thank God for it. The only thing you need to do is to care for it and make sure that you don’t lose it. Of course some develop problems as they age. But others are not that lucky.

People with these problems nowadays are lucky because help is readily available. Let’s look at these defects.

1. Astigmatism. It’s a problem where the eye is prevented from receiving rays of light from focusing together on the retina. The cornea is unequally curved in different directions. When this happens, the objects that you see becomes egg-shaped. How do you correct this? Wear prescription glasses.

2. Myopia. This is also known as short sightedness. If you have this, you only see the objects very near you and find it difficult for those away from you. This is inherited, where the eyeball is longer than normal. You can correct this by wearing prescription glasses or contact lens.

3. Hypermetropia. This is otherwise known as far sightedness. For people with this case, they can see clearly without prescription glasses for distance and reading while young but as they age they may need prescription glasses for both distances.

4. Presbyopia. This comes about as one age when the ciliary muscle weakens and the lens hardens. To fully understand this condition, knowing your eye’s near point is the key. An eye’s near point is the closest position that you can hold a book and see it clearly. A person with presbyopia’s near point moves further away causing him to move the book further away and holding one’s head away too. When the near point reaches beyond arms length, wearing prescription glasses are needed.

Do you have any of these conditions? Its better that you see an ophthalmologist first before you buy those prescription glasses.