In current market, contact lenses without prescription are of assortment variety. Usually those contact lenses are for decoration. For example, black contacts are able to enhance the charm of your eyeball, and green contacts make you bear a pair of eyes resembles that of a snake. Therefore, for the entertainment, those contacts lenses are widely accepted by many people are usually they are of no prescription.

However, while they are enjoying the happiness those contacts bring, they seldom notice the harm and side effect those contacts may bring to them. They take for granted that since decorative contacts lenses are not for vision correction, so there is no need to consult an eye doctor and to have a prescription. However, researches show that cheap and non prescription lenses are fairly harmful to eyes, being an absolute threat to eye health, because these lenses are often of low quality and do not come with cleaning instruction, additionally proper maintenance will not be introduced. Thus, wearing them, one tends more easily to get eyes infected, or more seriously, suffer from eye problems, such as eye injury, corneal ulcer, internal ocular infection and pink eye. Sometimes, there is even a threat of complete blindness.

Several years ago the U.S. congress promulgated the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act, stating that all contact lenses are restricted medical devices, so are decorative contacts, which mean that contact lenses are forbidden to be sold as anyone’s please. Even the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have already warned about the risks of wearing lenses with no prescriptions. Cheap contact lenses, besides being one of the causes of eye infections and other types of injuries to eyes, can moreover worsen pre-existing conditions, such as astigmatism.

Therefore, when you try buying contact lenses, whether decorative or medical, you should keep in mind to require a prescription. Do not be fooled by anyone who wants to facilitate the process of purchasing contacts, because they only care about money, and they take no consideration of eye health of the customers. How can they be believed? In addition, once more no matter you want to buy either decorative contacts or medical ones, do not choose cheap ones. Although you may get profit at hand, in the long run, you will probably harm your precious eyes.

Eyes constitute a blessing that the God has endowed each one of us. With eyes, we are able to see the beautiful world; with eyes, we are able to distinguish right from wrong (in some degree), why don’t we cherish the precious gift from the God. Therefore, be careful of and keep away from cheap contact lenses without prescription.