Skipton’s short-sighted youngsters are gaining a new view of the world – without their glasses – thanks to Benjamin Opticians. Abandoning specs is not normally the advice opticians give but it is working well for those who have taken up a novel form of night time sight correction, called Ortho-k.
Skipton sisters, Hana nine, and seven year old Selina Mahmood, have stopped wearing their glasses and are correcting their vision as they sleep with this fully reversible, non-surgical treatment. The girls wear specially made contact lenses at night which gently flatten the cornea as they sleep. Removing them in the morning they have near perfect vision all day long, without lenses or spectacles.
Hana and Selina have thrown themselves into sport since starting to use Ortho-k, confident that they don’t have to worry about breaking or losing their glasses. It means a new lease of life and is a great boost to self-confidence. With the incidence of short-sightedness having doubled in the UK in the past 50 years, Ortho-k is now being used more widely to slow down the effect of myopia leading to permanent life changing results.
Benjamin Opticians say that if a child becomes short sighted at an early age, or there is a family history of short-sightedness, this is a treatment to consider.
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