Tag: Contact Lenses
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7 Simple Tips to Stop Your Glasses from Fogging Up
December is finally here. Trees are being decorated, mince pies baked, presents wrapped, wine being mulled. The air is crisp and cold and we’re all waiting with baited breath for that first flake of snow fall. Isn’t winter beautiful? It sure is and we all agree here at SelectSpecs, but for a glasses wearer the…
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How to Deal with Dry Eyes
Do you ever get an uncomfortable, itchy feeling in your eyes at the end of a long day? If this happens regularly, then you may be suffering from dry eyes. Eye dryness occurs when the eye doesn’t produce tears properly or when the tears evaporate too quickly. It can range in severity and is caused by many…
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Twilight Lenses Lead to Spooktacular Warning
Tis the season to be jolly. No hang on one second. That kind of festive talk is not for a few months yet! Yet with Christmas but a matter of months away and Halloween catching up on as fast as Usain Bolt, here’s a real stocking filler of a tale. According to recent reports, strange…
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Surprising Careers for People Who Wear Glasses
I have been shortsighted since I was a small child. I love the freedom of wearing my contact lenses for sports, and I’m also a big fan of chunky statement frames for computer work, which I wear with pride! However, I used to think that some careers wouldn’t be accessible for me due to my poor eyesight. It…
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Glasses or Contacts: Pros and Cons
When contact lenses hit the market they were all the rage. Nobody would get caught dead wearing glasses, or at least, that’s how it felt. It’s funny how things change. It seems glasses have come full circle again and are now just as, if not more, popular than contacts lenses. It helps that there’s more…
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Contact Lenses for Dogs – Only from SelectSpecs.com
When was the last time your loyal best friend had their eyes tested? Does your dog like to play ‘Fetch’? No? Perhaps your four-legged-friend is having trouble seeing the ball or stick after you throw it. Get your dog’s eye’s tested at SelectSpecs.com Opticians in Westgate-on-Sea, Kent and from 1st April we are now offering…
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7 Awesome Bionic Contact Lenses of the Future
Google’s new experimental project is inventing ‘Smart contact lenses’ to help people with diabetes to manage their disease by measuring the glucose levels in their tears. At present, most people with the disease monitor their glucose levels by testing drops of blood. It’s early days yet but a tiny wireless chip and miniaturised glucose sensor…
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Contact Lenses and Glasses: A Match Made in Heaven?
There are a lot of articles floating around the web which try to compare contact lenses and glasses. But do they miss the point? Contact lenses and glasses have different qualities, making them well suited for different situations. But really they work great together. Even if someone prefers to wear their contacts all the time,…
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Ditch the Contacts, Don the Frames
A friend took a picture of me last week wearing my glasses, and I must admit I recoiled at the sight! No make-up, hair a mess, the glasses weren’t even straight; but the thought occurred to me that this is how I present myself far too often. After speaking to numerous friends around the 16-24years…
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Eye Health Awareness Week 2010 – Day 3: Wearing Contact Lenses
If you did a 10 minute survey of people coming out of a busy station chances are a large proportion of them would be wearing contact lenses. According to the Association of Contact Lens Manufacturers, around 3 million people in the UK wear contact lenses but that number is growing fast all the time. With…