How Long We Should Replace Glasses
Most of people won’t replace glasses until it’s broken. This is wrong in fact. Cycle of changing glasses is different on different age. We need to go to the hospital to check out and decide whether we need to replace glasses based on changes in luminosity and lens usage, because cycle of changing glasses of different age varies with body changes, it is easy to damage the eyes if wearing glasses according to the previous power.
Childhood
If pre-school children have refractive problems, they are often with hyperopia. Kids need to consider wearing glasses when eyesight is more than 200 degrees. If kids are with myopia or astigmatism, they must wear glasses to correct, because mostly it’s caused by pathological myopia or eye dysplasia. Kids are young, eyes change different quickly, so they need to check out every six months to a year.
Teen Years
Kids’ body develops gradually in teen years and they start to has heavy schoolwork, kids wearing glasses need to check eyes every year and change glasses once eyesight changes.
Adulthood
Some people will start to feel eye fatigue or discomfort due to busy work, they must regularly go to the regular glasses agency or hospital for eye examination, at least every 2 years, then decide whether to replace glasses.
Middle and old aged
People after 40 years old need to check out every year and replace glasses based on actual situation. If it’s difficult to see something nearby, maybe you are with presbyopia. But eyes change gradually. Approximately it increases by 25 degrees every 2 years and more than 50 degrees every 5 years. After 60 years old, presbyopia increases to the maximum. Basically, the power of eyesight tends to be stable, and glasses can be replaced after they are damaged.
