Optician in Suriname - Optiek Modern

IMPORTANT – For Contact Lens Wearers

*Do not share your cosmetic contact lenses, as this could lead to serious eye infections
Please read the Care & Use
*Instructions before inserting your contact lenses.
*Make sure contact lenses are clean before and after you wear them, and always store in fresh lens solution.
*Keep your lens case clean, and replace every 3 months.
*Cosmetic Contact lenses are not recommended for children under 16 years old.
*EyeContacts NZ strongly recommends that you see an eye care practitioner for regular eye checks.
*Do not wear cosmetic contact lenses for longer than 8 hours at a time.
Do not sleep while wearing your contact lenses.
*Hygiene is extremely important when handling your lenses as it reduces the risk of infection.

*Follow your doctor’s orders.
*Be sure your doctor knows about any other drugs you may be taking (including over-the-counter items like vitamins, aspirin, and herbal supplements) and about any allergies you may have.
*Wash your hands before putting in your eye drops. Be careful not to let the tip of the dropper touch any part of your eye.
*Make sure the dropper stays clean.
If you are putting in more than one drop or more than one type of eye drop, wait five minutes before putting the next drop in. This will keep the first drop from being washed out by the second before it has had time to work.
*Store eye drops and all medicines out of the reach of children.

Overview

Presbyopia, also known as the “short arm syndrome,” is a term used to describe an eye in which the natural lens can no longer accommodate. Accommodation is the eye’s way of changing its focusing distance: the lens thickens, increasing its ability to focus close-up. At about the age of 40, the lens becomes less flexible and accommodation is gradually lost. It’s a normal process that everyone eventually experiences.

Most people first notice difficulty reading very fine print such as the phone book, a medicine bottle, or the stock market page. Print seems to have less contrast and the eyes become easily fatigued when reading a book or computer screen. Early on, holding reading material further away helps for many patients. But eventually, reading correction in the form of reading glasses, bifocals, or contact lenses is needed for close work. However, nearsighted people can simply take their glasses off because they see best close-up.

Treatment
The treatment for presbyopia is very simple, but is entirely dependent on the individual’s age, lifestyle, occupation, and hobbies. If the patient has good distance vision and only has difficulty seeing up close, reading glasses are usually the easiest solution. For others, bifocals (glasses with reading and distance correction) or separate pairs of reading and distance glasses are necessary. Another option is monovision: adjusting one eye for distance vision, and the fellow eye for reading vision. This can be done with contact lenses or permanently with refractive surgery.