If more people wear safety glasses or protective glasses, thousands of eye injuries can be prevented every year. Eye injuries are common when adults and children enjoy sports or work at home.

Children are particularly vulnerable to eye damage because they usually do not take into account the threat to their eyes and may even endanger their healthy eyesight for a lifetime.

According to the American Association for the Prevention of Blindness, there are about 40000 exercise-related eye injuries in the United States each year that require emergency room care every 13 minutes!

Experts agree that 90% of such injuries can be easily prevented by wearing protective childrens eyeglasses. For children, eye injuries mainly occur in sports and other active games. Children should wear goggles when performing the following sports and recreational activities:

Paintball games also can be dangerous and are a growing cause of eye injuries among children and young adults.

Lead by example: wear safety glasses and sports glasses.
Perhaps the best way to encourage children to wear protective glasses is to set an example and wear them themselves.

For example, buy a pair of modern circumferential safety glasses for yourself and your child and wear them when you exercise or use tools or electrical equipment. Insist that your children follow your example.

Let your children choose their protective glasses.
When buying safety glasses and protective glasses, let your child choose the style he or she likes (as long as it provides the eye protection they need).

Seek advice from a professional optometrist to ensure that the glasses are appropriate and provide the necessary protection for your child's sports and activities.

Protective children's eyeglasses for sports such as baseball, hockey, and lacrosse should include polycarbonate masks or wire shields.

Glasses for other sports including basketball, football, hockey, and tennis-should be equipped with circumferential polycarbonate lenses or side shields.

Protective glasses and prescription lenses can be purchased from ophthalmologists so that children who need to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism can see clearly in their favorite exercise without the risk of eye injury.

Other precautions when buying children's protective glasses.
When choosing protective glasses, the lens material is very important. Trivex and polycarbonate lenses are more wear-resistant than standard plastic lenses and are the best choice for safety and sports glasses. In addition to providing excellent eye protection, these lenses are lighter and more comfortable to wear than plastic lenses.

Protective glasses are also a must for skiing and other outdoor sports. Ultraviolet rays (UV) and too much sunlight reflected off the snow and ice can cause sunburn and pain in the eyes, known as keratitis. Long-term UV exposure is associated with future cataracts and macular degeneration.

To protect your child's eyes from the short-and long-term harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun, make sure that their sports sunglasses and ski glasses have 100% UV protection. Learn more about ultraviolet rays and eyes. ].

Finally, studies have shown that in addition to ultraviolet rays in sunlight, the high-energy visible blue light emitted by sunlight and the screens of computers and other digital devices can also cause long-term damage to our eyes.

In order to protect your child's eyes from indoor and outdoor ultraviolet and blue light, consider using polycarbonate photochromic lenses. This photosensitive lens is transparent indoors, automatically darkens in the sun, provides 100% UV protection, and is fully resistant to blue light at all times.

Photochromic lenses are also convenient because they reduce the need for a separate pair of prescription sunglasses. Please ask your optometrist to show you the sample.