Straining to read the small print?
Then you might have presbyopia.
Who does it affect?
Presbyopia is an eye condition that affects everyone once you reach the age of 40-45. At that point, objects close up start to look blurry.
What is presbyopia?
Within our eyes sitting right beneath the iris, sits the crystalline lens. It refracts, or bends, light rays in our eyes to focus these onto the retina. Throughout life, the crystalline lens loses its flexibility, worsening untilyou reach your early 60s. This prevents your eyes from focusing as well as they once did.
A normal eye demonstrating the light rays focussed at the retina.
An eye with presbyopia demonstrating the light rays focussed behind the retina.
For illustrative purposes.
Symptoms of presbyopia include:
Difficulty seeing a menu in a restaurant.
Difficulty seeing your mobile phone screen or working on a computer.
Difficulty reading small print.
Difficulty when doing close-up work.
Difficulty reading up close in low lighting conditions.
What vision correction options are there?
Varifocal
glasses
Multifocal
contact lenses
Multifocal contact lenses give wearers a sense of freedom versus varifocal glasses.1
What are multifocal contact lenses?
Multifocal contact lenses are contact lenses with multiple prescriptions all in one lens. This setup helps people with presbyopia correct age-related vision problems where the eye can no longer focus on objects up close.
Multifocal contact lenses have different zones; one zone for close objects, one for distance and one for everything in between. Your eye automatically uses the section of the lens you need depending on what you are looking at – so you enjoy clear vision at all distances.*2
What to expect and how to adapt to multifocal contact lenses.
Some people adapt to multifocal contact lenses immediately. However, it’s also completely normal for your vision to seem blurred during the first few days of wearing multifocal contact lenses. This is your brain just taking a little bit of time to get used to seeing everything all at once again but within a week or so you should be finding that things are much better.
It will take a few days for the eyes to experience optimum vision quality.
Find out about CooperVision multifocal contact lenses.
* CooperVision multifocal products with the Binocular Progressive System™ technology. References: 1. CVI data on file 2021. Presbyopia survey 1182 consumers aged 40-65 years,Verve, December 2020. All those who currently wear multifocal contact lenses UK (122). All those who currently wear multifocal spectacle, but not multifocal contact lenses. UK (161).Statistically significant p<0.05. 2. CVI data on file 2020. Prospective, double-masked, bilateral, 1-week dispensing study with MyDay daily disposable multifocal; n=104 habitual MFCL wearers.
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