“What is Presbyopia?” by Dr Pius Paroli

Question #1: What is presbyopia?

Presbyopia came from the Greek word old eye. It’s when your eye has difficulty focusing at near due to hardening of the lens inside your eye. You experience it when you’re in your late 30’s or early 40’’s when you start to notice that things at near starts to get blurry and you try to move the object farther to make

Question #2: What do you feel when you have presbyopia?

It usually feels like your eyes are exerting more effort just to make your phone or working table clear.  Most people often experience having headaches on their forehead from squinting too much.

Question #3: How does an Eye Care Practitioner examine you to know if you have presbyopia?

In our clinic we start by asking what would be their concern for their visit. Then we would also do trial lenses depending where the patients working distance falls and if he or she would be more comfortable with the given lenses.

Question #4: What’s the difference between Bifocals, Progressive lenses and reading glasses?

Reading glasses are clear for near but are blurry when you use them at far. While bifocals resolve that problem and creates a clear vision for near and for far by putting together two lenses. The Disadvantage of Bifocals and reading glasses are that they can only make one specific distance at near clear, it’s usually the distance where people hold the phone comfortably. Progressive lenses are lenses that have progressing power which would make different distances at near clear. With progressive lenses we can make the distance where you hold the phone and the distance where the you use your computer clear.

Question #5: What are Contact lenses for presbyopia?

For those who don’t want to use glasses and want to try contact lenses we do have multifocal contact lens. This are contact lens which have grades for far, intermediate and near.

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