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pburch@roc.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Paula Burch) writes:


>If you are myopic enough to wear corrective lenses, there's a simple 
>solution to the problem of worsening vision--get hard contact lenses. 
>They are supposed to prevent your vision from continuing to worsen. 
>(Is this really true?)

It is relatively true.  The hard lens halts any change in the curvature
of the cornea, and thus most of the changes in your vision.  Changes
can still occur in the lens of the eye such as cataracts and 
stiffening.  I had hard lenses for a few years and I noticed that
my prescription did not change.  I also had gas permeable lenses and
had the same effect for the same reason.

>Gas-permeable hard lenses are supposed to be more comfortable than the 
>old-style hard lenses, which I found intolerable, and I've heard they 
>can accomplish the same sort of prevention. Doesn't this mean that
>we should put our children in these, instead of glasses, when they
>first develop problems? (Gosh, if my parents could have done this for 
>me when I was eight, maybe I'd be able to see SOMETHING without 
>corrective lenses now!)

Eye professionals are not likely to prescribe contact lenses to anyone
who is still growing.  I am not real clear on the reasons but it has to
do something with the eye and body still growing.

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