Magnifying Reading Glasses

Here is another reason to see a low vision specialist or optician. They have better training in assisting those with macular degeneration and fitting you for the best distance and near vision glasses. They may recommend stronger bifocals or stronger magnification for glasses that you will use just for reading.

As your macular degeneration progresses you will need more magnification. Often it is easier to use high-powered reading glasses rather than it is to use a hand held magnifier.

Reading glasses come in different powers or strengths. Keep this in mind:

the higher the power of the lens, the closer you must hold the reading material.

Typically, the average person holds their reading material at a distance of about 18 inches. As the magnification increases, the closer you must be to your book or magazine.

A person with say 8x reading glasses must hold the material at a distance of 5 inches.

New Glasses for Macular Degeneration

Low Vision Readers will be much easier to use than other reading aids and relatively inexpensive.

According to their website, "Low Vision Readers use high powered LED lighting built into the spectacle frame, magnifying high powered lenses, and prism correction to fix the reading distance."

To learn more about these new glasses that were shown in clinical trials to improve one's ability to read by 89% compared to one's existing glasses click here: Magnifying Reading Glasses

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Leslie Degner, RN, BSN

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