If you aren't seeing as well as you used to, it might be time to see an optometrist. This eye doctor can determine whether you have a refractive error and can give you some options on how to correct it. Your options will most likely include wearing either glasses or contact lenses. If you're on the fence about which one to choose, here are three reasons you might want to wear glasses instead of contact lenses.
1. Glasses Are Low Maintenance
One of the best things about wearing glasses is that they require virtually no maintenance whatsoever. If the lenses get dirty, you simply wipe them off with a soft cloth. At night, you take them off and put them in a safe place, and in the morning you put them back on. To make them even easier to maintain, you can choose scratch-resistant lenses.
If you wear contact lenses, you will need a special case for them, and a saline solution to keep them moist. You need to thoroughly wash your hands before handling your contact lenses. Soft contacts are also prone to tearing or getting lost, so you will always need to have extra on hand.
2. Glasses Are Healthier for the Eyes
When you wear glasses, you don't have to directly touch your eye. This means there is much less chance of getting an infection in or around your eye. Because you handle contact lenses with your fingers, you are more prone to eye infections.
One of the most common eye infections caused by contact lenses is keratitis. This type of infection can cause scarring on the cornea, which could result in poor vision. Besides touching your eye, infections from contact lenses can be caused by wearing them for too long, sleeping in them, or not cleaning them properly.
3. Glasses Don't Hurt Your Eyes
Eyestrain is normal for anyone who wears either glasses or contact lenses, which can make your eyes hurt. But one thing about glasses is that when you get something in your eye, it won't hurt as much as when you wear contact lenses. If you know someone who wears contacts ask them how painful it is to get a speck of dust or an eyelash in their eye while wearing them.
Getting any kind of allergen in the eye can be painful for contact lens wearers as the allergen sticks to the surface of the lens. Glass wearers don't have to worry as much about this, and glasses can also help protect your eyes from allergens.
Share18 May 2022
Hi, I'm Deena, and as I neared middle age, I noticed that my eyesight wasn't as good as it used to be. I first started out needing reading glasses to read the small print in magazines, and then a few months later, I had to put them on to see the computer screen clearly. I knew by then that my eyes were getting worse and that I needed to do something quickly. I made an appointment with the optometrist and the doctor gave me an eye exam. Even though my sight wasn't as bad as I had feared, I still needed prescription glasses. I love my new glasses because I can actually see now. I have put together a lot of information about eye problems, eye tests and even various types of eye wear so that others don't wait as long as I did to see the eye doctor.