An increasing number of people spend a lot of time in front of screens, both at work and at home.
Therefore, it's important to choose the right eyewear to protect your eyes from blue light.
It is thus fair to ask if it's possible to wear blue light blocking glasses over your contact lenses, and if this is the best option.
From time to time, contact lens wearers may experience visual fatigue when looking at screens.
This symptom is usually caused by overexposure to the blue light emitted by the computer, tablet or smartphone.
To protect their eyes from this screen-specific light, contact lens wearers can wear anti-blue light glasses.
In fact, these glasses are specially designed to filter out blue light and block its harmful rays.
These glasses can definitely be worn over contact lenses.
This does not compromise or reduce the effectiveness of the screen protection.
Similarly, the blue light protection glasses do not interfere with the visual correction provided by the contact lenses.
Both types of visual equipment can therefore be worn simultaneously in front of a screen.
While it is possible to wear blue light glasses over contact lenses, there are other ways to protect your eyes in front of screens.
Contact lens wearers can opt directly for contact lenses that filter out blue light.
Blue-light blocking contact lenses are available at Optical Center and can be fitted by your optician.
You can also choose to wear prescription glasses with a blue light filter.
The corrective lenses of prescription glasses can indeed be treated to provide better screen protection.
Both of these options avoid the superimposition of two sets of optical equipment.
Whatever your eyewear, you should always be careful not to overexpose yourself to blue light.
Keeping a reasonable distance from the screen, taking breaks and limiting your screen time are all good habits to adopt.
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