Hearing aids and care
Glasses and hearing aids together: making them get on
There is room behind the ear for both, but only if someone has thought about them together. What to decide before buying, and the order to put them on.
Advice
The questions people ask at the counter, answered in writing and without the jargon.
For example: hearing aids, sunglasses, children, dry eyes.
Eye health
How often to have your eyes tested, by age and risk
Seeing well does not mean being well. The table by age, the factors that shorten the interval and the signs that must not wait for the next check-up.
Hearing aids and care
How to clean your hearing aids at home, step by step
A good share of visits about a hearing aid that has broken down end in a clean. The daily, weekly and monthly routine, and what you must never do.
Eye health
- Digital eye strain: what works and what doesn'tDry eyes by mid-afternoon, letters that dance, a headache. What causes computer vision syndrome, and when the problem is really the prescription.
- Dry eye on the coast: wind, salt and air conditioningLiving by the sea has an ocular cost that almost nobody explains. Why eyes dry out on the Costa Cálida and how to choose artificial tears properly.
- How often to have your eyes tested, by age and riskSeeing well does not mean being well. The table by age, the factors that shorten the interval and the signs that must not wait for the next check-up.
Lenses and glasses
- How to clean your glasses without scratching or ruining themAlmost every scratch on a lens is made while cleaning it. The right method, the products that work, the ones that ruin a coating, and the mistake nearly everyone makes.
- Progressive or occupational lenses: which do you needOne kind covers every distance. The other covers well the metre and a half where you spend your day. The difference shows in your neck, not in your sight.
- Types of lens: a guide to what you are being offeredSingle vision, bifocal, progressive, occupational. Indices, materials and coatings: what really makes a lens thinner and which extras are worth having.
Sun and protection
Hearing
Hearing aids and care
- Glasses and hearing aids together: making them get onThere is room behind the ear for both, but only if someone has thought about them together. What to decide before buying, and the order to put them on.
- Hearing aids in summer: salt, sweat, sand and sun creamOn the coast, the enemy of a hearing aid is not use: it is moisture. What to do if they get wet, how to protect them at the beach and why a dehumidifier is not an extra.
- How to clean your hearing aids at home, step by stepA good share of visits about a hearing aid that has broken down end in a clean. The daily, weekly and monthly routine, and what you must never do.
- Types of hearing aid: who each one is forRIC, behind-the-ear, in-the-ear, in-the-canal and CIC. What you gain and what you give up with each style, including the real drawbacks of the smallest ones.
We have not written about that yet. Ring us and we will talk you through it.
