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Are Vision Changes After 40 Normal? - Cleveland Clinic
And six warning signs for when they're not
Once an idealistic 20-something, you thought this day would never come. But here you are at your local pharmacy, trying on — gasp! — your first pair of reading glasses. Has it really come to this?
The medical term for this seemingly inevitable rite of passage is presbyopia, and it describes how our vision changes as we age. But is there any way to avoid it?
“Nothing escapes time,” says ophthalmologist Claudia Perez-Straziota, MD. “Our hair doesn’t. Our joints don’t. And our eyes don’t. But there are things you can do to lessen the impact.”
And six warning signs for when they're not
Once an idealistic 20-something, you thought this day would never come. But here you are at your local pharmacy, trying on — gasp! — your first pair of reading glasses. Has it really come to this?
The medical term for this seemingly inevitable rite of passage is presbyopia, and it describes how our vision changes as we age. But is there any way to avoid it?
“Nothing escapes time,” says ophthalmologist Claudia Perez-Straziota, MD. “Our hair doesn’t. Our joints don’t. And our eyes don’t. But there are things you can do to lessen the impact.”