Dr Henry Sirota Od (Chicago, IL 60640-3118)

• Is it bad for your eyes to wear contact lenses every day?

  It maybe safe if you do all the followings. 1. If you put in and take out of your contact lenses in the correct way, I mean, by the ways not hurting your cornea. 2. Store and clean them with the specific solutions as your doctor recommended. 3. Wash your hands clean before wearing them. 4. Never wear it more than 6-8 hours in the day, take them off your eyes when go to sleep at night.

• Where can I buy affordable good quality sports sunglasses?

  If you don't want to spend too much on it, I suggest you get it from online optical stores where the prices are much lower than in the brick-and-mortar optical stores. But generally speaking, it will take about 1 week or even more to get it cuz the glasses may be shipped from the overseas countries. If you aren't in urgent need of it I think this may be a good way.

• Will it cause harm to your eyes to leave disposable contacts in your eyes for more than a few days?

  It is highly recommended that you should not wear contacts for more than 8 hours per day no matter what kind of contacts they are. If you leave them for more than a few days,your eyes can get infected easily and even ruin your sight.

• Do I need computer glasses according to my new prescription?

  Computer glasses are designed to reduce the harm of computer radiation to the eye. Computer glasses not only have magic function of vision correction but more importantly,they are unique and superior in reducing the computer radiation while we are working at the computer. So, a pair of computer glasses can prevent you from eye dry, vision blur, and headache.

• Do you use computer glasses when use a computer?

  I wear varifocals but they are not computer glasses im totally blind and useless with out glasses lol

• Are there any glasses that combine the usage of computer glasses & reading glasses?

  A pair of bifocal glasses can made both for reading and computer use with the upper part to see intermediate distance(computer) and the below part to see near (reading). Some bifocals are with a line in the middle while some are without line.

• Would computer glasses help me get rid of headache from using computer?

  Nope, not me. My computer wears contact lenses.

• How long can you continuously wear contact lenses safely?

  It is not suggested to wear contacts for more than 8 hours per day even though it is day and night contacts.One week is too long and your eyes may not get enough oxygen.

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