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Your eyes need to be shielded! More than as fashion accessories, it is necessary to wear eyeglasses to maintain good eye health!

According to an eye doctor Laguna Niguel,  there are two main reasons why we need eyeglasses-  HEALTH and COMFORT. From the health standpoint, it prevents ultraviolet light from getting into our eyes as well as the lids and skin around them. From the comfort standpoint, eyeglasses are worn by some people to reduce their sensitivity to brightness and glare.

Here are some significant points you should understand  why eyeglasses are essential to protect your eyes:

1. The sun’s UV radiation causes cataracts. These are benign growths on the eye’s surface which are sometimes called snow blindness. It is a temporary but painful sunburn on the eye’s surface. Although wide-brimmed hats and caps can block about 50 percent of UV radiation from the eyes, experts say it would not be enough that is why eyeglasses is a must.

2. The blue-light protection offered by glasses is essential for long-term exposure to the blue and violet portion of the solar spectrum. It gives healthy vision and provides the wearer the ability to see clearly without glare interference.

3. Wearing eyeglasses can help us quickly adapt to the varying light levels especially if you are outdoors and would go indoors where the light level is quite different.

4. And finally, people have to wear eyeglasses outdoors while running errands or doing anything under the sun to prevent skin cancer which commonly develops in the eyelids and skin around the eyes.

Eyeglasses are protective eyewear especially if your eyes are exposed to UV light even on cloudy or sunny months. Quality lenses that offer excellent protection are the first thing to consider. It should be something that could block 99 to 100 percent of both UVA and UVB radiation. Also, the better the lenses wrap around your eyes like in a good fit eyeglasses, the more they prevent radiation from scattering in around the sides.  Gray colored lenses are highly recommended for they reduce light intensity without altering the color of the objects.

If you want to keep a healthy vision and like what you see and want to keep it that way, grab a pair of shades from your trusted Laguna Niguel eye doctor like Asuman Unal, O.D. of Today’s Vision-Laguna Niguel.