Itinenary on the day: 12 pm: Talk: The Sun, UV Light and Your Eyes 12 pm – 3 pm: Tutu Kueh Live Station 1.30 pm – 3 pm: Kids Art & Craft Workshop: Tote Bag Painting (Limited slots available, must RSVP if keen, first come first served) 3 pm: Talk & Workshop for Parents and Children: Myopia: What can we do? – Exclusive storewide promotions ALL DAY RSVP Here Name * Phone * Email Address * Events interested in attending: * Morning talk - The Sun, UV Light & Your EyesKids Art and Craft: Tote Bag Painting Workshop (Limited slots available)Afternoon Talk - Workshop for Parents and K ..read more

Cost of myopia? Guess what is the estimated total cost of optical correction of myopia in Singapore? According to WHO report in 2016, the annual direct cost for Singaporean is estimated at US$755 million. The cost of eye care will likely to increase if Singaporean children start myopia at younger age.  The cost is not just financial. One of the studies shows myopia affects the health-related quality of life in adolescents aged 11 to 18 years with visual impairment.  A visual impairment is the loss of vision that cannot be corrected by eye glasses. Best corrected visual acuity can be ..read more

Most contact lens wearers know that unless using contact lenses prescribed by your Optometrist or Ophthalmologist for extended wear, they should not sleep with contact lenses on. ⁣ ⁣ However, sometimes even experienced wearers can accidentally take a nap or fall asleep with their lenses on. This is something that should be avoided all the time and is something to constantly remind ourselves not to do. Sleeping with contact lenses increases the risk of eye infection.⁣ ⁣ Our cornea gets oxygen directly from the air. This means that when wearing contact lenses, our eyes get less oxygen. When w ..read more

Feeling eye strains easily at work or school? Having difficulties focusing at your phone or digital screens? Living in a digital world, we tend to be reading closer and for longer period of time than before. Think of your eyes seeing at near in the same way you think of lifting weights. When you are looking up close, it is as if your eye is lifting a weight. Now when you look out in the distance, your eye muscles must fully relax to let your lens return to its natural shape (basically like putting the weight down). The closer you are holding what you are looking at, the heavier the weight is ..read more

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Feeling eye strains easily at work or school? Having difficulties focussing at your phone or digital screens? Living in a digital world, we tend to be reading closer and for longer period of time than before. Think of your eyes seeing at near in the same way you think of lifting weights. When you are […] The post Anti-fatigue lenses appeared first on First Eyewear Centre ..read more