Are you tired and annoyed with wearing eyeglasses? Are you thinking about maybe switching to wearing contacts instead? Wearing contacts probably isn’t as difficult as you may think and there are a number of advantages as well. Find out more by taking a minute to read this short article about wearing contacts.

A Little History

The first contact lenses actually date back to the 19th century, believe it or not. They were brown glass lenses and were hard to wear but helped people that could not wear glasses. The big breakthroughs came about in the 1940s and 50s when plastic lenses started being made. These early plastic contact lenses were made of polymethyl methacrylte, which did not allow oxygen to pass through. The new ones are rigid gas permeable and allow oxygen to pass through. Your corneas don’t get oxygen from your blood but instead get it from the air around you, so it’s important that contact lenses are breathable.

Even in the last few years there have been an increase in technology in contact lenses as lenses are now being made for people with astigmatism and even for people who need bifocal lenses.

Why is it Good to Wear Contacts?

Beside for cosmetic reasons, people wear contacts for a variety of other reasons including:

* Unlike glasses, the lens moves with your eye so there is no image distortion.

* The frame of glassescan block your side / peripheral vision.

* Glasses can often steam up when you go from a cold to warm temperature room.

* Sometimes contact lenses are the only solution for people who need vastly different lenses for each eye.

* An injured cornea can heal faster when its protected by contacts.

So How Do You Get Contacts?

The next step, if you’re interested, is to to see your eye doctor to get a prescription for contact lenses since you can’t order contacts with a prescription for glasses. You’ll go through some easy vision tests that only take about 15 minutes or so. You should also get the test for Glaucoma, which is the one where there’s a tiny puff of air that gets shot into your eye. Jennifer Aniston’s character, Rachel, from Friends made a big deal about it, but it’s actually no big deal at all.

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You may be a person that has been wearing glasses for some time or you may realize that your vision needs to be corrected and are considering going to the eye doctor to find out if you can wear contacts. If so, take a few minutes to read about how contacts work and how to go about getting them.

A Little History

Contacts actually date back into the 19th century if you can believe it. The first ones were made of brown glass and were quite difficult to wear as you might imagine but they were helpful to people with particular eye problems that could not wear eyeglasses. Some significant breakthroughs in the 1940s and 1950s when plastic lenses were introduced. These new contacts were made of a hard plastic called polymethyl methacrylte, which did not allow gas like oxygen to pass through them. The better contacts that we have today are rigid gas permeable, which do allow oxygen to easily pass through them. This is important because the cornea of your eye needs oxygen from the air since it does not get oxygen from your blood.

We’ve seen in the last few years how contact lens technology is still improving. People that have astigmatism can now get toric contact lenses. And people that need bifocals can now get special contact lenses made, too.

Why Do People Wear Contacts?

People wear contact lenses for cosmetic advantages as well as:

* The lens moves with your eye and there is no distortion, unlike with glasses.

* Glasses frames can annoyingly block your side vision.

* Contacts don’t steam up like eyeglasses do when you go from cold to warm temperatures.

* Sometimes contact lenses are the only solution for people who need vastly different lenses for each eye.

* The protection of contacts can often help someone with an injured cornea.

So How Do You Get Contacts?

You should go see your eye care professional and get an eye exam and consultation. You cannot order contact lenses with a prescription for eyeglasses. It’s a much different kind of prescription that you need. You’ll go through some simple vision tests which only take about 10-15 minutes usually. You should also get tested for Glaucoma, if possible - that’s the test that Rachel on Friends didn’t like because it shoots a tiny puff of air into your eye. It’s really not that bad and its an important test to get.

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