Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Artificial Corrections Harm Eyesight

Ben C from Yahoo Answers asks: Is it true that wearing glasses will actually worsen your vision when you start wearing them?

or do they make them better or do they have no effect in making them worse or better?

TheEyeGuy: Most people notice that their unaided vision gets worse after wearing glasses for a while and then taking them off.

Whether our vision gets worse or not is dependant upon how we respond to glasses. Most people continue with the incorrect vision habits which gave them blurry vision in the first place, so most people who get glasses or contacts get stronger and stronger artificial corrections year after year.

Squinting and staring are a couple of the incorrect vision habits that give us blurry vision.

Artificial corrections don't make our eye muscles weak, in fact our eye muscles are many times stronger than they need to be. Eyes that are blurry are not weak, they are strained and over exerted from incorrect use.

Most eye problems are not genetic, but they are often inherited behaviors just like having the same language as your parents or other habits as your parents.

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