
UV Protection with contact and spectacles lenses
A common statement we often find amongst patients is ‘I don’t feel anything wrong with my eyes if I sit in the sun for long periods of time, so I don’t see the problem’ - well disappointingly that’s wrong. The crystalline lens is clear when we are born and so we can see great, however over a period of time, when exposed to UV radiation, it absorbs UVA and UVB radiation. This results in a build up of proteins on the lens and can lead to a cataract – one of the leading causes o