Who can wear contact lenses?
Contact lenses are an excellent alternative to laser refractive surgery since it consists of a corrective treatment but with the advantage that it is reversible but, just like in refractive surgery, there are some minimum requirements that the patient must meet to be a candidate for the use of contact lenses.
Who can wear contact lenses?
Contact lenses are an excellent alternative to laser refractive surgery since it consists of a corrective treatment but with the advantage that it is reversible but, just like in refractive surgery, there are some minimum requirements that the patient must meet to be a candidate for the use of contact lenses.
For whom the use of contact lenses is indicated
Overall, any refractive defect in which the user wants to replace or alternate with the use of glasses. Typically, in consultation we find a specific profile of people who especially demand the use of contact lenses:
- Aesthetics: Some people prefer not to change their personal image by wearing glasses.
- Sport: in most sports the glasses are still a drawback for proper practice. The sudden or continuous movement, jumps, blows ... can alter the disposition of the glasses and even make them fall. Furthermore, the campor visual with contact lenses is more real and measurements can also be better taken in sports practice.
- Approval: Some professional activities generate problems through the use of glasses. An example could be a mechanic: glasses "touch everywhere" and can even affect vision.
Indications for the use of contact lenses
- High graduations: contact lenses give a higher visual quality the higher the graduation.
- Irregular astigmatisms: Some astigmatisms can only be compensated with contact lenses gas permeable or custom hydrophilic.
- Anisometropia: when the graduation difference between the two eyes can affect proper visual integration.
- myopia control: in some cases the use of special contact lenses. An example would be Orto-k, because it is being observed as an effective myopia control system.
Contraindications to the use of contact lenses
In eye disorders such as, conjunctivitis, Blepharitis, keratitisetc., contact lenses should not be used until the condition is controlled.
In any situation in which a significant alteration or decrease in tear production: diabetes, pregnancies, certain pathologies and the effects of certain medications….
As a general rule, by ophthalmological indication and under adequate control, it is possible make a Contact lenses adaptation in this situations if it is determined that its use is necessary for visual needs.
