When, Why Do People Wear Contact Lenses?
Parents often ask the question, "At what age can my child wear contact lenses?" There is some difference in opinion about the lower age limit for wearing contact lenses. Actually, there is no fixes age to go by. The decision varies with the child's intelligence, degree of emotional development and social problems. In favorable circumstances, contact lenses can be fitted on children as young as five or six. Usually, however, a child of seven or eight will be better able to follow instructions about the care and wearing of his own lenses.
Among adults, contact lenses are sometimes used to change the eye's appearance. The actor Walter Hampden once used contact lenses to change his blue eyes to brown eyes for the part of an American Indian. Orson Welles used special contact lenses to give his eyes an aged look in Citizen Kane. And some stars even have wardrobes of contact lenses that enable them to match eye color with particular clothing.
Today, anyone can walk into an optical goods shop and find contact lenses in wide varieties of shades, shapes, and even patterns. Some lenses are designed to allow the wearer to have eyes like a cat, a goat, or even a checker board. Other lenses totally black out or white out the entire iris.
More seriously, cosmetic lenses are sometimes used to conceal blemishes, or even to cover disfigured blind eyes. I am familiar with a case in which cosmetic contact lenses were fitted over the badly disfigured eyes of a blind man. Although he could not see the physical improvement, his emotional regeneration was striking.
Athletes, too, find contact lenses invaluable. They not only allow unencumbered participation in sports, but often act as a protective cover for the eye. In sports where body contact is required, special lenses have been designed to prevent easy dislodgment.
Published by Amy B.
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