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At what age can you wear colored lenses?

From what age can your child wear contact or colored lenses? What precautions should be taken? Our optician Sarah Marlien answers your questions.

There is no real minimum age to start wearing Contact Lenses ; some children are even often forced to wear them at a very young age for pathological reasons. This is the case when they suffer from strong anisotropy or keratoconus for example.

First of all, it is important to understand the reasons why a child or adolescent wears contact lenses or Colored Contact Lenses . Is it the child's choice? It is very important to have the answer to this question because it will say a lot about the child's motivation when learning to wear lenses, daily handling, and respecting lens hygiene. Is it due to a pathology? The parent will then have a major role in supporting their child. Or is it more of an aesthetic nature?

Depending on the reason why the child or adolescent is wearing Contact Lenses , the ophthalmologist or adaptor will direct your child towards a certain choice of lenses: daily, monthly, soft, rigid, etc.

It is important to know your child's level of autonomy because they will be responsible for respecting certain essential rules when wearing contact lenses:

- daily change of the contact lens care solution if they are monthly lenses,

- change thecontact lens case every month,

- systematic hand washing before handling contact lenses ,

- do not sleep with your contact lenses ,

- remove your contact lenses during water activities

- respect certain rules during sporting activities.

To measure the child's autonomy, you can ask yourself the following questions:
- Is he able to remember to feed our pet at a fixed time every day?
- Is he able to keep to a schedule?
These questions can be good tests to validate with your child their ability to manage daily contact lens wear.
However, for occasional use of Colored Contact Lenses, you can be less careful about their battery life and ensure that they are inserted yourself. Colored Contact Lenses and the correct removal of Colored Contact Lenses before going to bed.
For these reasons, the wearing of disposable lenses is more suitable for children because it causes less maintenance concerns and does not require remembering the monthly change date. Hygiene standards are also more easily enforced since contact lenses are easy to replace if lost.
Of course, before wearing contact lenses , it is very important that your child sees their ophthalmologist. The ophthalmologist will then check the quality of the tears and ensure that there are no pathologies that would contraindicate the wearing of lenses in your child.
Should we limit the number of hours we wear lenses each day?
This will depend on the type of lenses prescribed. In case of daily disposable lenses The ideal wearing time is 8 hours per day. If you have silicone hydrogel contact lenses which allow better oxygenation of the eye, these lenses can be worn 12 hours a day. Note that it is recommended to let the eye breathe freely one day a week while wearing glasses... For example, on Sundays.
It is very important to follow these rules. If you do not, your child or teenager may lose their tolerance for contact lenses. They may experience dryness and may no longer tolerate contact lenses at all in the near future, not to mention the immediate health risks to their eyes.
In conclusion, your child must be old enough to understand and apply their rules. Why not start with disposable colored lenses if colored lenses tempt him? There are daily colored lenses with correction: Obsession Paris Daily Colored Lenses . Don't forget to have his eyes checked regularly to ensure that all precautions are followed.
Posted on October 03, 2023
Aurélien Noiret
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