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Preschool and school-age childrencontact are a significant improvement over lenseses for children and adolescents who participate in sports or outdoor activities.contact are recommended for most athletes who need corrective eyewear. Often, a single pair of lenses is less expensive contacts than the combined cost of glasses and prescription daily goggles. Swimmers especially can benefit from being able to see underwater while wearing regular goggles over their contact. Because contact tend to dry the eye, swimmers and all athletes should take care to blink several times before and after an activity session in order to assure natural cleansing. If any pool water enters a swimmer''s eyes, the contacts lenses should be thoroughly disinfected as soon as possible daily to remove pool contaminants. Children who like spending time looking into a telescope, microscope, or binoculars may also prefer contacts over lenseses. (Lenses made from polycarbonate, contacts the same type of plastic used for the space shuttle windshield, are about 50 times stronger than other lens materials.) Also, people at risk of receiving electric shock should daily avoid metal frames.People employed in certain contacts occupations daily may be prohibited from wearing contact, or may be required to wear safety eyewear over the contact. Some occupations, such as construction or auto repair, may require safety lenses and safety frames. Physicians contacts and employers should be consulted for recommendations. Description Eyes are examined by optometrists (O.D.) or by ophthalmologists (M.D. or D.O.--doctor of osteopathy). daily Prescriptions, if necessary, are then given to patients for glasses. The glasses contacts and daily are generally made by an optician. A separate lenses-fitting exam is necessary if the patient wants contact, because an lenses contacts prescription is not the same as a lenses prescription. One, he didn''t think they were available from any other source," "and two, he had heard they weren''t as highly controlled as those dispensed through daily doctors."Neither assertion is true. got on the Internet and found her lenses on several Web sites for $35.95 for a box of six pairs. (Her doctor was charging contacts $50 a box.) says her doctor told her that lenses offered by places like may have failed manufacturers'' quality checks. Bausch contacts and other lensmakers say there''s no difference in quality between daily the lenses sold through doctors and those sold directly to consumers. contacts STATES CRACK DOWN. Attorneys general in 32 states have sued the American Optometric Association and two of the top contact-lens manufacturers (Vistakon, a division of contacts, and Bausch), alleging that the AOA tried to get manufacturers to agree to selllenses only through optometrists or other eye-care professionals. The attorneys general say they also have evidence that doctors agreed to withhold prescriptions from people who sought to daily buy lenses from other sources, despite the fact that at least 22 states have laws requiring eye doctors to give out contact-lens prescriptions upon request.Although the AOA says patients should be able to buy their lenses anywhere, the organization has reservations about mail-order purchases. "The difficulty when someone goes through mail order is that they don''t come back for regular checkups," says AOA president Dr. Harvey Hanlen.
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