It’s been a lovely few days in England right now and whilst the sunshine is beautiful, it brings with it, alot of exciting plans and a better mindset, but it can bring pain and discomfort to people like me with Photophobia (Extreme light sensitivity) and damage to sight whilst protecting my eyeballs at the same time. These glasses have taken away the discomfort and pain I was getting before when I just had the usual type of sunglasses you wear normally.
Apart from that. Everyone, Visually impaired or not, with continued exposure to light and the sunshine harmful rays over time could lead to damage to your retinal cells.
So everyone needs to wear protection from blue light, UVA and UVB. Even on cloudy days these rays are still going strong. So it’s worth just popping them on. You’ll thank yourself later.
The Sun can cause more damage to my already vulnerable macular and cone and rod cells.
It can also cause damage and sightloss to anyone with 20/20 vision too. Nobody is safe.
It’s worth investing in good protective sunglasses with all the safety specifications you can get. Cheap ones most likely won’t provide this. You can pick up sunglasses with really good protection that doesn’t cost the earth but please really think to buy some to save worry and problems later on.
It may save your eyesight now and as you get older.
It’s not worth being complacent over your eyeballs. Can you imagine losing your sight? Or it being compromised?
Luckily, where I live, the council has a Sight Loss Clinic that gave me magnification tools and my Cocoons sunglasses, for free, that protect me from the harmful light sunshine brings.
Please check with your council if they provide this service as alot don’t.
Also. Blue light is emitted from the sun, its all around us, including fluorescent and LED lighting and flat-screen televisions.
Most notably, the display screens of computers, electronic notebooks, smartphones and other digital devices emit significant amounts of blue light.
So, if you protect your eyes from all these elements as much as you can by less screen time, rests between working on a computer and wearing sunglasses with 100% UV protection and ideally a blue light blocker too. It will go some way to save your sight and mine too.
There are blue light blocking apps for your devices.
Pop one your phone to save your eyes from damage or eye strain. I have one from the Google play store. There are many eye conditions that you can be diagnosed with when older due to light damage. Even if your eyes are healthy now.
So, get your sunglasses on and a blue light filter.
Don’t take your eyesight for granted.
I did. I Don’t now ☺
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