3 Important Things You Should Know About Eye Exam

Nowadays, wear kinds of colored contact lenseshave become a fashion, because it’s pretty, convenient and comfortable. More and more people regard contact lenses as the best alternative to glasses, especially for the young aged between 18 to 25.

According to TTDeye’s marketing research, this young people takes up almost 70% among all contact lenses consumer market. Accompanied with more consume in contact lenses market, some eye problem is also coming,Most of them are led by faulty use of contact lenses.. Such as having no idea how to choose the suitable circle lenses, how to get a correct eye exam, and how to read a contact lenses prescription. Then I will provide you with answers on the following content.

Then I will divided my opinions into 3 parts.

1.Why you need to take contact exam?

2.How to choose your pleased ophthalmologist?

3. How do you choose the suitable contact lenses according to your contact lens exam?

Plus: I will also tell you how to read a contact lens prescription

Then we will go to the first part - why you need to take contact exam.

Several doctors said that eye infections have increased in recent years due to the environment, neglect of eye health, as well as incorrect contact lens wearing. Actually, most of these infection problems can be completely avoided if people take care of their eyes and undergo regular eye exams.

1.Know clearly about your eye vision

One contact eye exam will include several parts, they are distance visual test, near vision test, color sense exam, external eye part test and IOP (intraocular pressure) test. After taking these tests, you will know your eye condition clearly and comprehensively. And your eye exam doctor will also give you several pieces of advice to better protect your eyes. Then you can buy your suitable contact lenses based on the ophthalmologist’s prescription.

Plus: When you take an eye test for contact lenses, you should tell your optometrist. A regular eye exam may not suit contact lenses.When you need to wear circle lenses, you’d better tell the optometrist in order to do a detailed examination, as well as to explain how to read the contact lens prescription and choose your suitable colored contact lenses.

In order to take care of your eyes, almost all doctors will advise you on the following points.

• Should give your eye more time to breathThere are some people who find it difficult to remove circle lenses; however, wearing these colored circle lenses for a long time can be harmful to your eyes. This is because your eyes need to breathe. Although some colored contact lenses have high oxygen permeability, it is still best to remove your contact lenses and let your eyes rest, especially at night or while sleeping.
• Using professional care solution to clean your lensSome people just use water to clean colored contact lenses, it’s so wrong. No matter tap water or bottled water, there are full of mineral substances; when cleaning colored contact lenses using this, it will pollute them. So you just need to use the professional care solution to clean contact lenses.
• Better change contact lenses case every 3 months and clean it often.As we all know, to ensure circle lenses are clean, you need to provide a clean storage place. It’s not enough to use a professional care solution; you’d better clean the lens case more often and change it every 3 months.

How often do you need to take one contact lens examination?

Due to our eyes changing, it’s not scientific to buy one pair of contact lenses based on the contact lens eye exam from 2 years ago. According to the American Optometric Association,Adults had better do contact lens examinations every two years.. While the people over 60 ages better do contact lens test once a yearIn order to ensure eye health. However, the experts also advise that people who wear prescription lenses more often should have a yearly checkup, as it can be detrimental to your eyes to order contact lenses using inaccurate inspection results.

Then we will go to the second part - Choose your suitable color contact lenses from prescription

How you find suitable ophthalmologist?

These years, more people choose color contact lenses instead of traditional frame glasses, because they are beautiful and convenient. However, when choosing or wearing circle lenses, there are some tips we need to know in order to protect our eyes correctly. The first one is that you’d better take an eye exam to clearly understand your eye situation, such as myopia, hyperopia, or astigmatism, as well as your spectacle lens power; then you will be able to pick the suitable contact lenses better.

5 Things You Need to Know Before Take Eyes Exam

1.There are 2 different prescriptions, which include frame glasses prescription, and another is both frame glass and color contact lenses. Before you take an eye exam, you need to tell your doctor clearly which exam you want to take. Because these two kinds of prescriptions hold different items and enjoy different prices.

2.Find satisfied ophthalmologistOne of the effective ways to find an eye doctor is to search in Google directly. Just search for the doctors near you, then scan and pick one with the best and highest score reviews. Once you choose your suitable doctor, you can call them to make an appointment; it's better to leave a detailed message, for example, your name, birthday, frame glasses or contact lens prescription, and so on.

Be sure to go to the clinic 15 minutes ahead of your appointment., because you need to fill out one form of your personal information.

4. If you just wear colored contact lenses the first time, yourThe doctor will also recommend you contact lens types and brands., and teach you some basic information related to how to wear or remove contact lenses.

5.Finally is the prescriptionI will introduce you clearly how to read one prescription following.

There are mainly 3 important parts on prescription.

After you read your prescription correct, you can order yourfavorite contact lenses anytime anywhere.

Hope can help you a little about taking a right eye contact exam. Any questions can contact us, TTdeye is here 24/7 for you.