Is contact lens degree usually lower than actual?

Most of the delicate girls with myopia like to go out and draw a beautiful make-up and wear transparent or colored contact lenses. When you come back home, in order to let your eyes have more "breathing" time, you will put on frame glasses.


Do you know the knowledge of contact lens purchase? How to choose the degree of contact lens? Does it need to be consistent with the correction degree of frame glasses? How about astigmatism?


Dr. Wu haixiu from Zhejiang No.2 Ophthalmic Center interprets whether it is reasonable that the power of contact lenses is lower than the actual power.


Is contact lens degree usually lower than actual?


It's normal, because contact lenses are attached to the eyeball, while frame glasses have a certain distance from the eye. The closer the lens is to the eye, the higher the effective diopter actually produced. Therefore, the required contact lens is lower than the frame degree. It is recommended to go to a regular institution for relevant eye examination, and check the contact lenses with appropriate parameters.