« Sophisticated Neutrals For People Wearing Glasses Make Up | Home | Halloween Contact Lenses »

Reasons Why One Should Not Use Contact Lenses

By admin | March 16, 2009

Introduction

Contact lenses have many good aspects to them and that is why they continue to grow more popular with each passing day. There are many aspects about contact lenses that are downsides however and for the most part people are unaware of these aspects. Weighing the good with the bad is an important part of making an informed decision in this regard and it is with that in mind that the following reasons why one should not use contact lenses are offered.

Poor Reactions

There are people that have had poor reactions to contact lenses in the past. In extreme cases, there are people that have actually had their eyes damaged more when part of the material within the contact reacted poorly to the biological tissues of their eyes. While such occurrences are quite extreme and quite rare, they do happen with contact lenses and of course never happen with glasses because the material never actually touches the eye.

There are other poor reactions that are less severe and more common with contact lenses, such as increased irritation. Contacts are placed in solution overnight to keep them clean in order to prevent this, but when the material is in direct contact with the eyeball, irritation can take place from the material that the contact is made of and not just any particles of dirt that might be on the face of the lens. Glasses once again do not have this problem as they never come into direct contact with a person’s eye.

Inconvenience

People like contact lenses because they think they look better in them. While that is a debatable point at best, what is not debatable is that contact lenses are an inherently less convenient device than glasses. The only convenience point that contact lenses have in their favor is that they are in a person’s eye and therefore it is impossible to forget them once they have been put in. However, it is possible to forget them before they are put in just as you would forget to take your glasses before leaving the house and additionally it is possible to forget to take them off before going to bed, something that can cause irritation and is practically unheard of with glasses.

Finally, if a person does not take their contact lens fluid with them when they leave, it compromises their ability to make snap decisions about staying late at a friend’s house as they need to return to their own abode in order to take care of contacts in a way that they would not need to do for glasses. Contact lenses ultimately reduce a person’s ability to choose far more than they enhance it.

Conclusion

When people actually sit down to objectively consider the good points and bad points regarding contact lenses, they realize that they are trading off a lot more than they are getting in regards to aspects like health, convenience, cost and many more. Depending on the person’s circumstance this might be a good trade, but for many people it turns out being a bad one. If you consider this before you decide to choose from glasses to contact lenses, you will be better off with the eventual choice that you make.

Topics: Contact Lenses |

Comments