Since eyeglasses were invented in Italy in the 13th century, there have been few developments in eyesight rectification. In truth, portraits of spectacles-wearers illustrated in the 1400s show what look a good deal like NHS spectacles. Contact lenses have only been around since the 1950s, although Leonardo da Vinci showed foresight by outlining some early examples in his notebooks.
Well now there are some exhilarating new finds in the technology used to enhance your vision, which will be a super ease to the millions of short and long sighted sufferers amongst you.
For those of us who work in a dusty work environment or have dry eyes or Sjoren’s syndrom, you may not be able to consider wearing Contacts or glasses. The Ortho K system - a system of correcting your nearsightedness whilst you sleep with special Contact lenses - could offer a solution. What happens is that you wear the special gas permeable Contacts at night and it somehow reshapes the clear covering of your eye (cornea) to correct your visual imperfectness and give you perfect vision when you arise from your sleep. The sight correction generally lasts for the entire day, and sometimes longer: some wearers find they may only need to wear the lenses every other night. Even if you are a keen swimmer, you can still consider this option as they are fine in the water. Although the lenses don’t cure short sight, some studies have indicated that using them may slow down the progression of shortsightedness. This treatment is now within the reach of most people’s pockets, although it has been around for about 5 decades now.