Health Tip: Check Your Eyeglasses

(HealthDay News) -- Eyeglasses can correct many vision problems including nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and presbyopia. But eyeglass prescriptions can change is as little as one year, the Cleveland Clinic says.

Among the possible causes for needing a new prescription:

• Increasing nearsightedness in the teen years.
• Presbyopia in midlife.
• Cataracts.
• Vision problems after surgery.
• Onset of diabetes.

If you feel your vision is getting worse in one eye or both eyes, see your ophthalmologist.

-- Kimberly Sferruzzo

Last Updated: Nov. 21, 2005