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From: pburch@roc.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Paula Burch)
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Subject: Re: Progressive nearsightness from CRT use
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Date: 25 Aug 1992 16:00:14 GMT
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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?)*** no!  it slows it down somewhat..but the
eyestrain from working with c.r.t.'s continues..  could try your
contacts PLUS "100x" reading glasses--available at drugstore. ***


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!)

**** i use the gas-permeable lenses....the doc said that i was
     too near-sighted to use the "soft" contacts or extended-wear
     lenses, which would have been more convenient.   ****

Paula Burch
pburch@bcm.tmc.edu
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