Category Archives: Contact Lenses

Choosing Frames for Winter Sports

For anyone going skiing, snowboarding, or even walking at high altitudes, it’s essential to wear goggles or good quality UV400-rated sunglasses because on mountains, the sun’s harmful UV rays are often underestimated. In fact, the higher the altitude, the greater the ultraviolet radiation is because there is less atmosphere to screen out the harmful rays. […]

Contact Lenses vs Glasses: A Guide

Are you considering making the switch from glasses to contact lenses? Contact lenses can have many advantages over glasses especially when it comes to sports. In this blog we’re going to look into the benefits of contact lenses over glasses and why you should consider trying them for yourself. The Benefits of Contact Lenses  Wider […]

Going on holiday this summer?

Eye Care Recommendations For Travelling

Summer holiday season is upon us, but just because you’re taking a break doesn’t mean your eyes are. Protecting your eyes whilst travelling, especially on aeroplanes, is super important to having long lasting, top-quality vision. Here are some top tips and important things to consider when travelling: 1) Bring extra glasses and/or contact lenses There’s […]

How to Put in Contact Lenses Easily

It can be tricky to know how to put in contact lenses, especially if you’ve just started using them or are nervous about touching your eyes. This guide will show you a simple step-by-step process to help you put in and take out your contact lenses easily. How to put in contact lenses What you’ll […]

trying out multifocal contact lenses

Options Supreme Multifocal Contact Lenses – Real World Trial

As an Opticare customer, I was asked to write a real-world review of trying these new revolutionary multifocal contact lenses from Options Supreme. As a constant glasses wearer, I struggle to see distance, but recently I’ve also started to struggle to see close up. My glasses work well but are not always practical in life. […]

man wearing glasses with x4d varifocal lenses

Introducing The Latest OptiPersonalise Progressive Lenses

If you have found yourself doing a head dance to get your glasses to focus in the right area to flit between distance and close objects, you’ll already know the limitations of progressive lenses. The world we live in today with electronic devices means we are constantly flicking between distance and close up vision. With […]

How to prevent steaming up your glasses while wearing a face mask

How To Stop Glasses Steaming Up When Wearing A Mask

With new legislation here in the UK recommending everyone wears a face mask when out shopping or in public areas indoors, we glasses wearers are suffering from a new problem. The steaming up or fogging of our lenses on our glasses. Before COVID-19 and the mandatory wearing of face masks, this was never a problem, […]

Transition Contact Lenses – The Contact Lenses that Knows Light™

Do you ever wish that your contact lenses could work like Transitions™ lenses? When they automatically change from light to dark to help with glare and sudden changes in brightness? Have you ever walked in a building on a sunny day and had to wait for your eyes to adjust to the dramatic changes to […]

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Solar Energy the Future for Opticare

We are proud to announce the completion of solar panelling at each one of our 4 branches; Newark plus Anstey, Birstall & Sileby in Leicester and Loughborough. The panels have been installed on the roofs of each practice and will provide a renewable energy source for each shop. This will allow us to reduce our […]

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A No-Nonsense Guide To Myopia In Children

Myopia is the clinical name for short-sightedness or nearsightedness. It refers to when a person’s vision is blurry for objects that are far away. Each person is different, some don’t suffer at all, others have varying degrees of blurriness. It often starts in childhood and slowly gets worse until they stop growing. What causes Myopia […]