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frequent driver
Excellent eyesight is the be-all and end-all for road safety. Anyone who wears varifocals knows the problem: rapid changes in the direction of vision, for example between the navigation system (near range) and the road (distance range), tire the eyes. There are now lenses specially designed for short-sighted and far-sighted people: the so-called EyeFit technology from Zeiss takes individual needs into account (more information from your optician). Poor night vision is often caused by slight short-sightedness of around -0.25 dioptres. This can be checked by an optician or ophthalmologist. If you quickly feel dazzled while driving, use yellow-tinted, super-anti-reflective lenses.
Nature lover
Getting some fresh air outside is good – but please don’t forget your sunglasses: even when the sky is overcast, UV radiation is dangerous for your eyes. It accounts for 20 percent of cataract cases. You can prevent this with colorless lenses with UV protection (e.g. from Essilor), which also protect against the rays that are reflected into the eye via the back of the lens. Tip for walkers who often switch between dark and light, for example from the forest to the meadow: self-tinting glasses that adapt very quickly (Rodenstock).
sports enthusiasts
Unbreakable, hard-wearing, reliable: Sport, but also gardening in the coming spring demands a lot from glasses. Modern manufacturing processes enable ever thinner and more shatterproof glasses. Annoying glare and disturbing light reflections can be reduced by the so-called polarizing glasses. With them, spectacle wearers can also see with particularly high contrast (e.g. “Dynamic Sphere” from Hoya, “Skylet Sport” from Zeiss). Anyone who can hardly see anything while swimming can have optical swimming goggles made for them with an individual prescription.
screen worker
Rapid changes in the office: from the monitor to paper, from paper to colleagues and back again – there is no question that office work is a strain on the eyes. In primeval times, they were made to be able to see into the distance over wide areas and fields. Nowadays, this gives us tired and burning eyes at work, sometimes even a drop in performance. Experts recommend wearing workplace glasses from the age of 30 and from two hours of monitor work a day – even if you have full eyesight. Special anti-fatigue glasses (e.g. “Hoyalux iD WorkStyle” from Hoya, “Varilux Computer” from Essilor) are intended to make working on the PC easier.
family manager
Wanted: Perspective for all areas of life. From the kitchen to road traffic, from the computer to the supermarket: Anyone who quickly switches between different environments needs easy-care glasses that don’t take offense. Practical: A special surface treatment, the so-called Nanopearl-S coating, makes the glasses particularly dirt- and water-repellent as well as abrasion-resistant. Thanks to anti-fog glasses (e.g. “Optifog” from Rupp and Hubrach), you won’t be left in the fog even when cooking or opening the dishwasher. Alternative: the new “FogFree” cloths from Rodenstock.
The perfect glasses
Just as important as the glasses: the right frame. The current eyewear models easily manage to combine demands on function and design – with high-end materials and high-precision technology.
And: The frames are becoming more and more durable because they consist of fewer and fewer individual parts. As a rule of thumb, it is still the case that it is easier to combine different areas of sharpness, for example in the case of short-sightedness and presbyopia, in one large-format pair of glasses.
Frameless also for the severely ametropia
Glasses used to be thick and heavy; Today, new technologies enable fine lenses to be individually cut in different fields of vision. Even large shapes remain light.
Glasses: Silhouette
protect your eyes from UV light and wind – even slow hobby cyclists benefit from this. The highlight: you can clip in the prescription and different tints.
Glasses: Adidas
No more pressure points behind the ear
In addition to careful adjustment by the optician, particularly flexible and light materials such as titanium, acetate and trogamide improve the fit on the head.
Glasses: Rodenstock
How to recognize a good optician
- He asks exactly about your state of health: Do you have high blood pressure, back problems or headaches ?
- What do you primarily need the glasses for – for near or far distances? How do you spend your free time – bookworm or biker? And what about your workplace (light, PC)? All questions he will ask.
- He uses sample glasses to illustrate important special features.
- He makes sure the glasses are centered correctly. This requires an eye test and an exact measurement of the distance between the eyes.
- If the glasses you have chosen slip, he will point this out to you and recommend a different frame. Poor footing causes blurred vision and headaches.
- He observes your posture when standing and sitting: it influences the angle of vision.
- After he has adjusted them, the glasses do not press on the pads on the nose or behind the ears.
- He checks the correct fit of the glasses after two to three weeks – free of charge.
Identify nearsightedness or farsightedness
You are not an eagle eye? It could be because:
Nearsightedness:
top near, far flop. If you are short-sighted or near-sighted, you can see close-up details well – but have difficulty seeing in the distance. The anatomical causes of so-called myopia are an eyeball that is too long or the refractive power of the cornea that is too strong. To compensate, sufferers often squint their eyes. They feel that the optimal reading distance of 35 centimeters for a healthy eye is “too far away”.Contrary to popular belief that this effect can be reduced by “training” the six muscles that move the eye, myopia is irreversible and usually worsens into adulthood. Sometimes presbyopia compensates for myopia, more often both visual impairments come together. Then only wearing varifocal glasses can help.
Important: Regular check-ups at the ophthalmologist, because severely short-sighted people have an increased risk of retinal detachment and glaucoma.
Farsightedness: the denser, the blurrier.
Affected people can see far away well, but nearby things are blurry. This is due to the eyeball being too short or the cornea having too little refractive power. The eye automatically compensates for early farsightedness (technical term: hyperopia) by tensing the sphincter muscle that holds the lens in position. Typical distinguishing feature of far-sighted people: the newspaper stretched out far. Existing farsightedness is usually exacerbated by presbyopia.
Presbyopia: near vision decreases.
So-called presbyopia affects us all: from around the age of 45, the letters in front of the eye suddenly become blurred when reading, and close-up vision in particular is found to be strenuous. Cause: The circular or ciliary muscle, which determines the position of the eye lens, loses elasticity as a result of the natural aging process. As a result, the lens hardens and becomes increasingly immobile. Unsharpness can no longer be compensated – most Best Agers need visual aids. Around the age of 65, the aging process of the eye muscles is complete, and vision remains constant.
