September is Eyecare Awareness Month, and Torga shares some valuable information on your eye health and blue light.
As we face this uncertain time during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Torga Optical is open to take care of your visual needs. Your eye care is important to us!
Regular eye examinations are extremely important to your overall health and your vision. Everyone wants clear, healthy, and comfortable vision for their entire life. In these uncertain times, our digital usage has increased as many of us are working from home and are exposed to a varying degree of glare, reflections and blue light, which are emitted from our digital devices.
Short-wavelength, high energy blue light scatters more easily than other light, which means that one cannot easily focus on it. If you’re looking at a computer screen, smartphone or other digital devices that emit blue light, this unfocused visual light reduces contrast. This can result in the user straining their eyes.
Blue light is not all bad – in fact the human body needs it to regulate mood and aid in memory. However, the regularity of use and proximity of digital devices to the eye can result in too much exposure. Exposure to blue light at night, especially via digital devices, can result in disturbed sleeping patterns. There are various ways to protect your eyes from too much exposure to blue light. Milder exposure to blue light can be treated with normal tinted lenses. For more prolonged exposure, special blue light blocking lenses and UV420 protective lenses are often recommended when it comes shielding your eye from the harmful effects of blue light that is emitted by digital devices.
Torga Optical offers easy solutions to reduce blue light exposure and digital eye strain. Torga Optical’s Blue Blocker Anti-Reflection coating can be applied to any pair of glasses. Their latest technology UV420 lens material offers not only blue light blocking, but protection from UV radiation as well. You can upgrade any pair of glasses in Torga Optical to UV420 protection from just R300.
Increasingly, more optometrists and other eye care practitioners are advocating blue-blocker lenses – especially to patients who spend long hours staring at a computer screen or other digital screens. Torga Optical has the lens technology to provide the ideal solutions when it comes to blocking blue light.
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