does wearing a prescription lower help improve eye sight?
i.e. I read somewhere that a person who was -6 wore a -5 contact, then a -4.5 to help improve vision. They stated that it helped because it made their eyes work and didn't allow the contacts do all the work for them. Couldn't that cause your eyes to strain, or is that something that could help? Anyone know?
2007-07-25 13:51:12 · 6 answers · asked by may 2 in Health ➔ Optical
Yes, you read correctly, but wearing lower prescription alone won't help much your vision. You have to do certain eye exercises in order to avoid strain.
If you strain to see with lower prescription, it can only worsen your condition. Your eyes must be relaxed when looking distant objects in order to avoid progression of myopia.
For more information about eye exercises go here:
http://www.refractiveeyedisorders.com/ryv
Healthy diet is also very important to restore and maintain clear vision:
http://www.refractiveeyedisorders.com/opf
Regards,
2007-07-29 09:57:35 · answer #1 · answered by DrJale 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the previous answerers said, No Way! Myopia ('-' prescription) is caused by eyes being mis-shaped, not by lazy muscles. This is a very common belief, but no amount of squinting will improve myopia. Wearing your proper Rx will NOT cause your eyes to become dependent on glasses, or make your Rx worse. Wear your contacts as prescribed, and consider LASIK in the future. LASIK can reshape your eye & improve your vision; making your eyes work harder will only give you a headache.
2007-07-25 17:42:37 · answer #2 · answered by Bartmooby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
In fact, a study was done giving children lower prescriptions and those with the lower prescriptions had their myopia progress FASTER than those with the correct prescription.
2007-07-26 08:14:40 · answer #3 · answered by Judy B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-06-19 13:09:23 · answer #4 · answered by Alton 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It just makes you see blurry, it can not make anything better. I have this kind of RX and it is becuae my eyeball is too long. Depriving myself of the right corrections would do nothing for me at all!
2007-07-25 16:05:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi
this is not possible. people with minus power are sometimes undercorrected becoz they can not bear full correction, they will feel uncomfortable with full correction. and i think there are very few cases who r given less power. mostly myopic people are given full correction to get 100% vision and mimimal strain.
2007-07-25 22:22:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had MANY patients ask me the same question. Unfortunately, it will only make you blurry. It won't make your eyes worse, it just won't make them better.
2007-07-25 15:02:16 · answer #7 · answered by eyedoc999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, it makes your eyes work harder and get worse.
2007-07-25 13:58:36 · answer #8 · answered by Blue T T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋