Why do I need backup spectacles, when I mostly wear contact lenses?
Most people love how easy, comfortable and convenient wearing contact lenses is. At, VDM Optometrists, we love to help our patients make the switch from glasses to contact lenses. However, our Optometrists still strongly recommend that people who mostly wear their contact lenses still keep a pair of backup glasses at home.
These backup glasses offer you an option when you cannot or should not be wearing your contact lenses.
Here is 4 GOOD reasons for you to have backup glasses.
- When wearing contact lenses is not an option.
One of the most important reasons to have glasses, is for the times you cannot wear your contacts. This is often due to a medical condition and typically something you did not plan for.
For example:
- When you wake up in the morning with an eye infection, like pink eyes.
- It is allergy season and your eyes are very itchy and dry. (Wearing your contacts will be very uncomfortable)
- You scratch your cornea or worse you have a sore on your cornea from wearing your lenses to much. (this is why you don’t sleep with them!)
- The medicated eye drops you have to use are not compatible with contact lenses.
- Some irritant got into your eye, like a household cleaning product.
If any of these scenarios happen, you will not be able to continue wearing contact lenses, because your eyes will need time to heal. Imagine waking up in the morning and you can’t wear your contact lenses? How would you function that day? What would you do?
A spare set of glasses would allow you to continue functioning through life when your eyes can’t handle the contacts.
- You lose your contacts
If you have been wearing contact lenses for a while you will know how easy it is to lose one. Imagine not having any left? What would you do? How would you drive or do your work? Whether you realize it or not, you are completely dependent on your vision.
This is another good reason to have that pair of backup glasses. And remember, these spare pair of glasses can’t be to old. Your prescription change regularly, so remember to update them to your latest prescription.
- For that day you don’t feel like wearing contact lenses.
There will be times you don’t feel like wearing you contacts for example;
– Your eyes feel unusually dry and scratchy
– It’s a bad allergy day, so you don’t want to wear contacts with your eyes so runny and itchy
– You had a long night, and your eyes feel tired.
- You forgot to order contact lenses.
If you wear contacts, you will know how easy it is to forget to place your order in time before you run out of lenses. Imagine you are on your last pair and the one lens tore, or you wear daily disposable lenses and you realize the morning your on your last pair.
Sometimes when ordering the lenses from your Optometrist, they can be on a back order and can take weeks to be shipped. In a case like this, the pair of backup glasses will come in very handy.
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