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Vision Health

Vision health is an extremely important part of your overall health, after all, if you can’t see clearly it can cause all sorts of other problems, but you shouldn’t get your vision health checked out only if you’re having problems seeing things, you should have your eyes checked out regularly in any case. If you wait until you can’t see the number on the approaching bus, you’ve left it far too long. . .

Whether you wear contact lens or glasses, your vision is important.

Contact lenses are the preferred method of correcting vision for most people these days. They’re convenient, flexible (there are lots of different types) and nobody need even know that you’re wearing them (for the vain ones amongst us).  However, if you’re a pretty newly converted contact lens wearer there are some definite rules which you need to follow, otherwise you could just make matters a whole lot worse and you wouldn’t want that would you?

• Always follow the recommended wear schedule, right from day one. They’ll probably feel very odd at first, but little and often will soon get you used to them. Your optometrist will tell you how long you can wear them, make sure that you follow the instructions carefully.
• Only use the recommended saline solutions to clean your contact lenses, no other substitute can do the job properly and can end up causing eye infections . . . nasty!
• Don’t re-use any left over contact lens solution, always start again with a fresh solution.
• Make sure that your contact lenses do not become exposed to tap water, bottled water, sea water, distilled water or lake water. Only the recommended solution will do the job.
• If you do suffer with any symptons of infection or irritation around your eyes, contact your eye care professional immediately.

Information about Medicare vision coverage can be found at the Medicare site.

Contact lenses can help to correct many types of vision disorders – Hyperopia (far sightedness), Myopia (near sightedness), Presbyopia (poor focusing ability for reading etc) and Astigmatism.

Learn more about the types of contact lenses from the FDA.