“The Different Types of Contact Lenses for Nearsightedness and Farsightedness: A Guide”

GRONINGEN – The working week has started again and you immediately start attending a presentation. You sit a bit in the back and notice that you can’t see the screen very well. Even when you’re cycling home, you notice that you can’t focus on passing cyclists.

Nearsightedness and farsightedness come on slowly and will not go away in a large proportion of cases. However, those who need contact lenses are not just helped with the first contact lenses. For example, there are differences between the type of lens and the duration that you can wear the lenses.

Daily, weekly and monthly lenses: what’s the difference?

Before we go deeper into the different types of lenses for different eye disorders, it is important to know the difference between daily lenses, weekly lenses and monthly lenses. As the names suggest, you wear the lenses for a day, week or month. Weekly lenses and monthly lenses are generally cheaper, because you don’t have to replace them as often for a new pair. Why would you opt for daily contact lenses, I hear you ask. Daily lenses are usually a lot more hygienic than weekly and monthly lenses. You take the lenses off and then throw them away. This means you don’t have to deal with lens fluid and storage boxes, but you can simply put in a new pair. Many people choose to wear daily contact lenses when they travel, have hay fever or go swimming or exercising.

Nearsightedness, farsightedness and multifocal lenses

Most people who wear glasses or contact lenses suffer from nearsightedness or farsightedness. Nearsightedness means that you can see things up close, but not from far away. More and more young people are nearsighted because of their phones, but people who work behind a computer can also suffer from this more quickly. Farsightedness, on the other hand, is the opposite of nearsightedness; you see things sharply from afar and blurry up close.

However, can you be both nearsighted and farsighted? Yes you can. The solution to this is to combine the two powers in one lens. This is what multifocal lenses do. That way you don’t have to worry about both your nearsightedness and farsightedness. Are your lenses uncomfortable? Please inquire with your optician lenses with cylinder, these are also called toric lenses. Cylinder lenses are specially designed to correct astigmatism (a cylinder deviation).

To the optician

Do you notice that you suffer from farsightedness, nearsightedness or both? Then it is advisable to visit the optician so that he or she can advise you about the possibilities. After that you can order lenses online, so you always have the right lenses at home quickly and easily!

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