It is very common to wear reading glasses when you feel your eyes are getting strained when you try to read. Are you aware of the reasons why your eyes get strained and how the reading glasses work?
You may be at certain age when you were not able to see clearly the things very near to you or could not read a book or newspaper. May be somebody suggested you to use reading glasses. You used the advice and got up a pair of reading glassed say powered +1.0. You used them without much care and now again you feel to get a pair with higher power as +1.0 is not working. The reason could be that your eyesight has further degenerated. It may be good news for you that you are doing a great help to you by using the reading glasses.
If you use glasses to correct your vision you are not doing any harm to your eyes.
Why and when somebody will need to use the reading glasses?
When someone reaches the age of around forty years, probably that is the time he needs reading glasses. At this age it is most likely you get presbyopia. In medical terms presbyopia is the stage when your eyes don’t adjust to see the things nearer to you clearly. Your eye has a lens which is elastic and changes its shape and focal length, like a camera, depending on the distance of the object being viewed by the eye. A kid can focus the eyes easily on any object near to the eye, say about two inches. But if a person around 40 or more will try to view any thing nearer like this print from a distance of two inches it will look blurred. It may also look blurred if he tries to see it from a distance starting from 2″ to a foot depending on his eye.
Mostly people over 40 are already using the reading glasses. It is due to the condition of this focusing elastic lens in your eye. In a human body the three things will always continue to grow irrespective of the age. These are: ears, nose and this crystalline elastic lens in the eye. The growth of the eye lens takes place in layers similar to an onion. With its growth the lens starts losing its flexibility and becomes stiffer. Thus it does not change it shape and eye cannot focus on a closer object. The process of loss of elasticity is very slow and we cannot really observe the change till we get to 40’s.
Are you aware how you are able to read using the reading glasses? The simple thing they do is that they magnify the image so that you can see it clearly. You can read the material from a comfortable distance. The reading glasses only magnify the image. Therefore there is not any deteriorating effect on your eyes.
Many people above 40 feel very comfortable using +1.0 glasses to read newspaper and any small print. Although, it is a bit discomforting to often remove the reading glasses, when not reading. Still they feel happy to use them. As they become older, they need the glasses with higher power.
Then their pair of lenses is upgraded to +1.5 or +2.0 as the eye lens is getting stiffer and stiffer and looses its accommodating ability the reader glasses go on upgrading. How can you help your self when you need higher power of the reading glasses? It is simple, get them and use. The reading glasses are unavoidable for people who are +40 of age.
Eye wear designers are constantly coming up with so many designs of frames for your reading glasses. The fact of life is that you need to use the reading glasses. These glasses help to magnify the image which your eye can see even when the eye lens has lost its reconciling ability. You should understand the magnifying the image does not cause any bad effect on eyes and only relaxes the eyes from strain.
So you need not worry if you use reading glasses. Use them without fear and select some frames which will give you a mod look. Have the fun!
Sources: Why Should You Wear Reading Glasses?, Will wearing reading glasses hurt my eyes
