Summer in Rochester brings some scorching hot temperatures that demand frequent refreshing dips in the pool. Hopefully after this past weeks heat wave you were able to beat the heat by swimming in a local pool.

For those that swim on recreational teams or as professional lifeguards, seeing underwater is critical. Clearly bringing your glasses into the water isn’t an option, so what is an avid swimmer to do?

Many people don’t know that over the last 15 years, technology has developed to allow people with poor eyesight to see clearly both underwater as well as on dry land.

Prescription swim goggles provide the visual advantage and protection that swimmers need above normal swim goggles. Opposed to normal goggles that distort your vision underwater, goggles adjusted to fit your unique prescription allow you to see with little to no distortion at all. If you need corrective lenses while you’re on dry land, why not get them for underwater as well? Your personalized lenses can help correct myopia and mild astigmatism underwater, allowing for a clear and comfortable swim.

You may ask, why can I not simply wear my contact lenses under normal goggles?

Swimming with contacts can allow for bacteria, oil, dirt, and chemical agents to contact your eyes, and could potentially cause infection to your eyes and damage to your contacts. For long-term health for your eyes, it is best for you to avoid this bad practice.

Rochester Optical’s Greece store (located across from Greece Ridge Mall) is one of the only stores specializing in sports eyewear in the area. Here we offer a selection of both prescription and nonprescription goggles for swimmers.

Is it worth the price? For active swimmers, the price of a pair of prescription goggles may be a worthwhile investment. Instead of allowing your eyes to experience discomfort and infection or attempting to wear already pricey contacts underwater, do yourself a favor and seek clear vision and protected eyes.

If you choose to purchase prescription goggles, it is important to stay up to date with your yearly eye exam so that you continue to see clearest and with the proper prescription for your eyes.

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The taste of myopia
In our class, many people have got myopia, my eyesight decreased. See around some of the students, wearing glasses, always admire very much. Seems to be wearing glasses is a sign of have poise and learned; When male students to answer the question, pushing glasses, natural and unrestrained; Female classmate, in my spare time with a lens cloth to wipe the lens, elegant. When the glasses frame in his nose, as well as to know the taste is bad.
Remember once, I take off glasses to walk around the streets, cousin to see me, just waved hello to me from far away, I see clearly her appearance, see I have no reaction, just ran over to gas drum cried cried what scold me « no one », « cold blood », make me in distress situation. This also made me began to upset on your own two eyes, has made up his mind to restore vision.
In order to be able to properly restore good eyesight, I began to protect his eyes. I the classmate of class situation survey, conducted a myopia wear glasses in class are more than 20 more than 50% of the total number of classes.
I look at the teacher to fill in the form of 5.0 above, the number of even less than ten students, let me very surprised. According to the specification writing posture, up to the 3 a standard homework no more than 10 people. Less than 20% of the total class, at the wrong posture, sitting position is not straight classmate is about more than 20 people, with the standard posture do homework than the gap is so big. Collapsed about five homework on the table, so lead to myopia of Trinidad and Tobago.
I think it is not correct lead to our eyesight fell sharply, let oneself on the bridge of the nose framework, let me feel don’t want to, so we should protect our eyes, let oneself can have a pair of good eyes, can let oneself become more healthy.
We should correct his bad habits, usually in writing assignments, play computer, watching TV’s time should be set at 40 ` 50 minutes to rest for a while. Should do three when you do your homework – hand away from the tip of one inch, eyes to stay away from the book a foot, chest a punch from the table. At the time of playing computer, eyes keep a certain distance with a computer screen. Don’t put TV brightness is too high, so as to avoid eyes were stimulated. In addition, we also pay attention to use eye sanitation, do not use hand rub eyes, etc. Are we usually pay attention to health.
Senior year, stepped into the information age, the thick glasses also became a kind of « the tide », don’t cry because it is the « trends » and let us give up their eyes. The classmates, we have no longer hesitate and delay, we must call for more love around the world. You know – « the pearl of the eye is aged, the eyes are the window to the soul »…Ray Ban SunglassesRay Ban OutletCheap Ray BansCheap Ray Ban SunglassesCheap Ray Ban Wayfarer

Refractive errors must wear the right glasses

to the hospital for nearly 70% of the student’s myopia, and there is an upward trend, mainly due to the students close to overuse, vision is not open due.

Based on clinical observation, 95% bad eyesight is caused by refractive. Human eye is like a camera, with refractive and adjust the two functions. When the eyes don’t adjust case, parallel rays through refractive system after inflection, formations focus falls on the retina, which is seeing-eye, it’s refractive. Found refractive errors cannot be indifferent, you must wear appropriate glasses, otherwise the vicious circle.

The first step in controlling myopia wears the right glasses

When your child is diagnosed with myopia, be sure to take appropriate countermeasures, and wear appropriate Ray Ban Outlet sunglasses myopia prevention is a good idea.

Protect eyesight must start from the details; medical optometry is the first step. Refractive status of each person is different eyes adjust different conditions, different facial features, so the glasses must be individualized fitting, there must be professional technical support. A qualified glasses depends not only on the quality of lenses and frames qualified, level of optometry, lens polishing process is also very important, with a degree of medical optometry is accurate, comfortable and healthy glasses of the premise. In fact, ordinary refraction is derived solely rely on computer optometry refraction, and then inserts try lenses optometry. This optometry, operating methods and procedures are relatively simple, just to let refractive errors were able to see the object, in large degree of change will occur soon after wearing glasses, eye fatigue, and other symptoms of rapid progression of myopia.

Rigorous medical optometry complex, the first high-precision high-cost integrated refract meter, and secondly on the optometrist has strict requirements that must be familiar with knowledge of clinical ophthalmology and optometry physician. From the content point of view, the ordinary routine medical optometry content more than five times, including eye refraction, adjust power, binocular vision, emergence collection features distinguish the dominant eye and so on, the last comprehensive

Issued by the above scientific co optometry prescription glasses to achieve, not only comfortable and clear vision can read durable and healthcare purposes.

The second step of controlling the correct myopia to wear glasses

While suffering from myopia has been confirmed as true, the degree of 100 degrees or more, you should wear the right glasses to be corrected. Once the optician, in addition to wash and sleep outside should wear it, because myopia patients wear appropriate glasses, in semitropical state regulation and emergence functional recovery of the natural relationship. Wearing glasses is not only to improve vision, but also in studying and working within an appropriate distance, so emergence eye regulation and function of normal and harmonious relations between, to avoid eyestrain.

It should be noted that no more wear proper wearing degrees deeper degree of myopia development or not, and wearing Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses are not directly related. Myopia wear the right glasses, pay attention to eye health, myopia will stabilize at a certain level. But if you think everything will be fine with the glasses, usually pay attention to eye health, continued long-term state of fatigue the eye; can lead to vision loss, myopia. In addition, wearing glasses as inappropriate: None optometry or optometry are not allowed, with the degree too large, it will increase the burden on the eyes, so vision loss, the degree to deepen.

Only medical optometry, reasonable wear glasses to play a controlling role in the development of myopia.

Progressive multiform lenses

After the students wear glasses most of the time is close work, had mild myopia see near is no need to adjust, but after wearing myopia see near it will stimulate the regulation, which is more likely to cause visual fatigue, resulting in the continued development of myopia. In response to this phenomenon, Purim Optometry experts specially recommend to all parents: juvenile progressive multiform lenses.

Progressive multiform lens is divided into four zones, namely: glazing area located in the upper half of the lens for looking far; under light district, located in the lower half of the lens for a look at the past. From the top of the fixed lens to lens distance power under a fixed reading is not close with a sudden change, but in between the refractive power used gradual transition gradual change, and will not affect the visual effect, it will not cause visual fatigue. Long-term wear can be corrected to read and write incorrect posture, control and mitigate the deepening of myopia.

People suffering from refractive errors, just read or write when the eye swelling, eye pain, see distant objects is not clear, shall glasses vision correction. Different types of refractive errors with the principle of Ray Ban Outlet sunglasses is not the same, the general should note the following:

(1) Myopia and myopic astigmatism: myopia glasses principle is the smallest degree to achieve the best corrected visual acuity. Such as wearing a diaper (commonly known as 100 degrees) and 1.5 diapers corrected visual acuity of 1.0, should be used as a diaper lens, rather than choose 1.5 diapers. Mild myopia astigmatism (a diaper less) may be given the low degree correction, some patients plus astigmatism lenses, consciously dizziness discomfort, ataxia, may be appropriate to reduce the degree of astigmatism lenses, such as still have this feeling, without circumstances affecting visual acuity (visual acuity of 1.0 or more), you can not have astigmatism lenses, such as wearing a period of time after myopia, astigmatism lenses can be combined to give the eye a process of adaptation. For the first time with high myopia glasses, glasses should be worn low degree, to be adapted to increase the degree and then, in principle, high myopia glasses should be given adequate degree, but not more than 3 diaper increments, astigmatism lenses also give enough. More than 3 diapers and generally can not meet the ordinary glasses (eye refractive error, a difference of more than 3 diapers, two things like sizes, can produce double vision, the brain is not an aggregate), should choose to wear contact lenses (contact lenses). Binocular refraction that much difference (called anisotropic), glasses should best corrected visual acuity in both eyes, which does not produce diplomatic principles.

(2) Hypertrophy and hypertrophy astigmatism: hypertrophy glasses according to the degree of patient acceptance and job requirements in the selection of appropriate lens. For example, a 1.5 diaper refraction and visual acuity of 1.0, the selection of 1.5 diapers as well. High hypertrophy, the patient should be given the maximum acceptable degree lenses. For adults or children under the age of 6, 2 diapers or less mild hypertrophy, without symptoms of visual fatigue, vision can be in the normal range, may not be corrected. Children aged 6 to 15 have hypertrophy or accompanied by Arabic’s, myopically should be fully corrected, and two alternate cover and should promote the myopically eye developmental. Hypertrophy glasses after frequent wearing glasses to emphasize, especially children myopically, insist on wearing glasses are particularly important, and the annual review of optometry 1, timely adjustment of degrees.

(3) Astigmatism glasses principles: general refolding compound myopic or hypertrophy astigmatism, myopia or hypertrophy in accordance with the principles of glasses. For high astigmatism (greater than 3 diapers) or mixed astigmatism, when first worn suited to some (such as dizziness, nausea, etc.), it should be appropriate to reduce the degree, and so after a period of adaptation, according to circumstances giving completely corrected visual acuity improved. For irregular astigmatism patients, ordinary lens is difficult to correct, you can try contact lenses. In short, those who have astigmatism, in principle, should be given full correction, and often wear Cheap Ray Ban Sunglasses, in order to eliminate visual fatigue symptoms.