Contact lenses or spectacles – what is better for impaired vision?

As convenient as contact lenses are, they can nevertheless cause dry eyes. In a healthy eye with sufficient wetting, the contact lens floats in the tear film on the eye. However, if the tear film is disrupted, the protective film tears more quickly. This causes the contact lens to increasingly rub against the ocular surface, causing irritation. If soft contact lenses are worn for too long, they can soak up the tear film like a sponge. Those who suffer from dry eyes anyway should therefore definitely choose high-quality contact lenses that fit the eye exactly. The eyes, but also the contact lenses, can be additionally lubricated with eye drops that are suitable for contact lens wearers.

If you do not want to wear contact lenses or often suffer from itching, burning and redness of the eyes, wearing glasses is the right solution. However, it is important that your visual acuity is checked regularly by an ophthalmologist and adjusted as necessary. This is because faulty vision correction puts the eyes under stress and can exacerbate their drying out. When vision slowly begins to deteriorate, we often prefer to change our behaviour instead of having the lenses of our glasses replaced. However, with strained, concentrated gazing, people tend to blink even less often, the tear film disrupts, and moistening of the eyes deteriorates progressively.