Do Fashion Sunglasses Protect Your Eyes?

Nowadays, more and more people are wearing sunglasses with various fashionable styles.

Some people may have doubts about it:

• Is it necessary to wear sunglasses in the sun?

• Do sunglasses really have any protective effect on eyes?

• If so, what protective effect does it play?

The ultraviolet rays and strong light from the sun will create eye discomfort like eye fatigue, red eyes and dry eyes, and also lead to serious eye diseases such as macular degeneration and cataracts.

Therefore, it is essential to protect your eyes from the sun’s damaging rays. The best way is to wear sunglasses that block nearly 100% of UV rays (also called UV 400 protection) when you are outside during the day. Sunglasses can block uncomfortable strong light and most harmful ultraviolet rays, reducing the damage to our eyes.

That is because sunglasses lenses frequently contain one or more special purpose coatings, and some certain chemicals have been applied to the lenses during manufacturing, which can filter out 99-100% of the UVA and UVB rays, and prevent 75-90% of visible light from reaching your eyes.

The Sunglasses lenses surface usually contains a UV coating, which will block the sun’s damaging rays to reach your eyes. Anti-reflective coating is affixed to the backside of the sunglasses lenses. This coating prevents light that’s hitting your face from reflecting off the back surface of the lenses.

In our daily life, choosing the right sunglasses based on the environment and type of activity can effectively protect our eyes and reduce the occurrence of eye diseases.

If you want to participate in activities like skiing or fishing, it is better to consider polarized lenses. This specialized lens coating typically will help to prevent eye strain and eliminate glare more than tinted lenses alone.

In conclusion, It is indeed necessary to wear sunglasses to protect the eyes in summer or in environments with strong sunlight, which is beneficial to eye health.