The intense ultraviolet rays in the summer sun not only have a bad effect on our skin, but also cause a lot of damage to our eyes.
Our fundus, cornea, and lens will be damaged by it, and it may also cause eye diseases.
1. Corneal disease
Keratopathy is an important cause of vision loss, which can make the transparent cornea appear gray and white turbidity, which can make the vision blurred, diminished, and even blind, and is also one of the important eye diseases causing blindness at present. Long time ultraviolet radiation is easy to cause corneal disease and affect vision.
2. Cataracts
Long-term exposure to ultraviolet radiation will increase the risk of cataracts, although cataracts are more common in the elderly aged 40 and above, but in recent years the prevalence of cataracts has increased sharply, and there are also cases in young and middle-aged people, so when the ultraviolet index is too high, go out must do a good job of protection.
3. Pterygium
The disease is mostly related to ultraviolet radiation and smoke pollution, and turns out to be red eyes, dry hair, foreign body sensation and other symptoms.
To choose the suitable lens to solve indoor visibility and outdoor protection is an essential thing in summer season. As a professional manufacturer dedicated to the optometry field, lens technology development, manufacturing and sales, Universe Optical always cares much about the eyes health and offers various and suitable options to you.
Photochromic lens
According to the principle of photochromic reversible reaction, this kind of lens can darken rapidly under light and ultraviolet irradiation, block strong light and absorb ultraviolet light, and have a neutral absorption of visible light; Return to the dark, can quickly restore the colorless and transparent state, to ensure the lens light transmission.
Therefore, photochromic lenses are suitable for indoor and outdoor use at the same time, filtering sunlight, ultraviolet light and glare damage to the eyes.
Simply say, photochromic lenses are the lenses that can meet the demands of myopic people who want to see clearly and protect their eyes from less UV damage. UO photochromic lenses are available in the following series.
● Photochromic in mass: Regular and Q-Active
● Photochromic by spin coat: Revolution
● Photochromic bluecut in mass: Armor Q-Active
● Photochromic bluecut by spin coat: Armor Revolution
Tinted lens
UO tinted lenses are available in plano tinted lenses and prescription SUNMAX lenses, which provides effective protection against UV rays, bright light and reflected glare.
Polarized lens
UV protection, glare reduction, and contrast-rich vision are important to active outdoor wearers. However, on flat surfaces like the sea, snow or roads, light and glare reflects horizontally at random. Even if people wear sunglasses, these stray reflections and glares are likely to affect the quality of vision, perception of shapes, colors and contrasts. UO Provides offers a range of polarized lenses to help reduce glare and bright light and enhance contrast sensitivity, so as to see the world more clearly in true colors and better definition.
More information about these lenses is available in
https://www.universeoptical.com/armor-q-active-product/
https://www.universeoptical.com/armor-revolution-product/