Hyperopia and presbyopia are both visual defects. In both cases, the eye's accommodation is affected. Just like with cameras, accommodation allows your eye to "zoom between near and far."

A person who is hyperopic cannot see properly up close. They must exert effort "by zooming in all the way" to get the image in focus. When hyperopia is too severe, even the maximum zoom is no longer sufficient, and optical correction is essential.

For mild hyperopia, constantly using the zoom at full zoom can cause negative effects such as headaches, double vision, or eye fatigue, which is felt more at the end of the day or when in front of a screen. The eye is not strong enough; it uses this accommodative mechanism to gain power.

Can hyperopia be corrected with colored lenses?

With appropriate correction, it is entirely possible to alleviate this constant effort. Clear vision is achieved with just the necessary accommodative effort (depending on age, etc.). Colored Contact Lenses with Positive Correction correct hyperopia. Be sure to order the correction prescribed by your ophthalmologist on your prescription. At www.meslentillesdecouleur.com, we offer a wide range of colored contact lenses with positive (+) correction:

- the Adore Colored Contact Lenses,

- the LAir Optix Colors Color lenses,

- certain models of LBella Color lenses,

- the LFreshlook Color lenses,

- LSoleko Colored Contact Lenses,

- LSolotica Colored Contact Lenses (Solotica annual colored lenses).

What is prebyopia and how can it be corrected with colored lenses?

Presbyopia is the same problem of this "zoom" which no longer works very well but the causes are different: with age, this mechanism has more difficulty in achieving sharpness. And we use this accommodation up close; from a distance the accommodation is relaxed (except for hypermetropes who will already activate this mechanism to obtain sharpness) and up close we require greater accommodation. But over time, we have to stretch our arms to read more clearly, we need brighter lighting... and then, we need a correction that's truly adapted to our near vision.

The difference between hypermetropes and myopes

Hypermetropes and myopes are not entirely equal when it comes to this presbyopia. Indeed, the latter see well up close, but at a specific distance that depends on their correction (which is why some myopic people remove their presbyopia glasses to read).

In short, you can be hypermetropic, presbyopic, or both. at once!