Choosing Correct Lenses Online for Kids Prescription Glasses
Among a wide range of prescription glasses available online, coming with affordable and cheap price tags, it becomes difficult to choose the best eyeglass for your child. While selecting the proper eyeglass, the primary concern should be safety. Children are prone to accidents, both at play and at sports activities. Even children with contact lenses require additional protection while participating in sports activities.
The best way to ensure safety for your child’s eye is to purchase prescription glasses with polycarbonate lenses. They are more durable than normal lenses and are very lightweight. As they have the best impact resistance of any lens material, they are practically shatter proof. These features are possible due to the fact that these lenses are made of materials which are very similar to what is called “bulletproof glass”. These prescription glasses also have built-in ultraviolet protection which protects the eyes from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun.
The shatter proof nature of the lenses protects a child’s eyes from pieces of flying glasses or plastics when they are hit by a ball or bat. That’s why polycarbonate lenses have become the preferred choice of many doctors when they suggest prescription glasses for children.
A scratch resistant coating is usually present in the lenses, to keep the vision clear as long as possible. Though there is no guarantee of the “scratch proof” property, a front and back “clear, hard coating” does make the lenses more resistant to scratching.
One must also choose a safety frame to hold the polycarbonate lenses. Safety sports frames are designed in such a way that they hold up to high impact from fast-moving balls or heavy racquets. These frames can be purchased online at various sites dealing with both designer and cheap prescription glasses.
Subhadip Sural is content writer specializing in online content for EyeExpert, an online provider of prescription glasses, designer glasses and varifocal glasses. He has been published in newspapers, print and online publications and has more than 3 years of writing and editing experience.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a motorbike in the worst possible way. I vividly recall the bitter arguments with my parents, when they refused to consider even the possibility. Years later, the scenario was replayed, between my son and me — and I became the “bad guy.”
It’s not that I have anything against motorcycles — not really. Most of us realize that a two-wheel vehicle is less stable and potentially more dangerous than a four-wheel vehicle. And one visit to a hospital emergency room after a motorbike accident victim has been admitted is sufficient to confirm a parent’s worst fears, when a son or daughter makes an ardent plea for this form of transportation.
But any type of machinery or mechanized equipment can be dangerous, if the right precautions are not taken. It always amazes me that airplane passengers don’t hesitate to fasten their seat belts when requested to do so, but many of those same people struggle with rush-hour traffic on the freeway without applying the same precaution.
Even though states have introduced laws enforcing the use of automobile seat belts, it’s unbelievable how many people find excuses not to use them. Yet statistics show clearly that seat belts save lives. Many law enforcement officers have been quoted as saying they have never unbuckled a dead person.
And what about semi rimless glasses, especially the protective kind? Regular eyeglasses can shatter if struck by a piece of flying metal, and specially constructed safety metal lens glasses always should be worn when working around any type of material that can damage the eyes.
No one wants to be blinded because he or she was too stubborn to wear safety prescription eyeglasses either at work or while pursuing a favorite hobby. It can take but a split second for an unexpected or “freak” accident to change a person’s life forever.
But let’s get back to the motorbike for a minute. No, I can’t make you wear a safety helmet, but I can tell you that most motorbike accident victims suffering from devastating or fatal head injuries were not wearing a helmet.
And safety belts in your car? Maybe it’s sufficient to say that, after many years of tending accident victims in the emergency room, I think there are very few tragedies that can top the sight of a badly injured child who’s been hurled into the dashboard or through the windshield of a car because he or she was not wearing a safety belt.
Of course, nothing is 100 percent absolutely safe. But every safety device used brings you a whole lot closer to being protected than if you make no effort at all.
Dr. Michael M. Warren is Ashbel Smith professor of surgery at University of Texas Medical Branch Division of Urology.
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