Eyecare Facts

The cumulative effects of UV exposure mean that we should ALL wear sunglasses when the UV Index rises above three – even during a cool, cloudy British Summer!

(Source: Eyecare Trust)
In India 77% of all blindness is due to cataracts
(source: Medindia.com)
75% of all blindness is avoidable

(Source: Vision 2020)
Children are at greatest risk from UV damage. Youngsters have bigger pupils and clearer lenses which allow up to 70% more light to reach the retina than in and adult's eye.
(Source: Eyecare Trust)
By the age of 18, more then half a lifetime's worth of ultraviolet light will have been absorbed by a child's eye.

(Source: Transitions Optical)

Other long-term effects of unprotected exposure to UV include the onset of macular degeneration, pterygium – a growth on the white of the eye which encroaches onto the cornea and obscures your vision and cancer of the eyelid or the skin around your eye.