Your Prescription Type
Importance of Regular Eye Tests
From short and long sightedness to cataracts and glaucoma, there are many different conditions that can affect the health of your eyes and vision. Some conditions may be due to problems with the eye health or your general health. Info here ➡
Other conditions may simply be remedied with glasses or contact lenses. By regularly booking one of our comprehensive eye tests, we can help you to preserve and protect your eyesight, even when conditions appear to be symptom free.
See below to learn the different prescription types.
Myopia or Short Sightedness
If you struggle to see far away but can see up close clearly you are probably myopic or short sighted. This is easily corrected with glasses or contact lenses but for children it is a concern because as they grow it is likely to get worse, leading to increased risk of eye problems in later life. Thankfully, there are now lenses specially designed to reduce myopia progression in childhood .
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Hypermetropia or Long Sightedness
If you suffer from eyestrain, headaches or blurry vision with close work you are probably long sighted. You may find it hard to concentrate or feel your eyes are tired or aching and burning. Glasses may be all you need to solve this.
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Astigmatism
An astigmatic eye can be thought of as being more of a rugby ball shape than spherical like a football. This means a simple short sighted or long sighted lens can’t focus all of the light on the retina at the same time and so a more complicated correction is needed. Astigmatism affects distance vision and near vision and so, depending on how rugby ball shaped the eye is, spectacles or contact lenses may be needed full time.
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Amblyopia or “Lazy Eye”
Amblyopia is when one eye is noticeably weaker than the other. The eyes and the brain develop connections during the first eight years of life. If one eye doesn’t look straight, or if the prescription in the two eyes is substantially different, the brain will form connections to the good eye but will suppress or ignore the other one, resulting in a lazy eye. Overall vision may be good, relying on just one eye, however depth perception will suffer and coordination may be reduced. Early detection is essential to prevent this from being a lifelong affliction.
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Presbyopia or Age Related Reading Difficulties
If you find you are struggling with close vision as you pass the age of 40 you may be developing presbyopia. The lens inside the eye starts to become less elastic and can’t bend to focus as well as it once could. You will either begin to notice you are holding things further away to focus on them, or you may start to suffer from tiredness, eyestrain or headaches when concentrating on near tasks. An optometrist can prescribe glasses to aid close up work, and this can also encourage your vision to be more stable as a result.
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