Regular eye tests are of the utmost importance.

At Bassol, we recommend to take an eye test every year.

50% of the vision loss can be prevented with annual checkups. A diagnosis and a treatment on time are fundamental for a good visual health.

The frequency of eye tests depends on age, profession, the type of visual anomaly, etc.

Opticians and optometrists recommend to start checkups at the age of 5, when a higher intellectual performance is required and to take them every year during the school years, especially at the beginning of every course and during very active months.

Eye tests monitor not only visual health but also visual functionality and comprehensive capability.

Between the age of 20 and 40, eye tests are recommended every two years.

From the age of 40, the risk of suffering from a visual impairment increases. This is the reason why annual eye tests are once again recommended.

Some studies demonstrate that prevention habits need to be reviewed in order to prevent future visual problems and to keep a good visual health.

In Spain, only 30% of the population regularly takes eye tests, even if 95% thinks that eyesight is the most important sense and 77% feels afraid of becoming blind. 26% of the Spanish population affirms that it is not necessary to visit an Optician if they believe they do not have a visual problem.

Lack of prevention is also common among parents in Spain. 23% of parents have never taken their children to an eye test, and only 37% take their children to the recommended annual checkups.

Taking care of children’s eyesight health is especially important as eyes accumulate 80% of the ultraviolet radiations between the age of 0 and the age of 18.

 

A study from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the International Centre for Eyecare Education, the University of New South Wales and the African Vision Research Institute,

demonstrates that almost 158 million people suffer from visual disabilities caused by refractive errors never corrected, which could have been sorted with an eye test and prescription eyeglasses.

This first study which calculates the loss of productivity due to refractive errors never corrected was published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization last June 2009.