From: anonymous@pbfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
Subject: drugstore reading glasses
Posted-By: xx102 (Eye Clinic Moderator)
Organization: Organization For Community Networks
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 03:58:53 GMT
Newsgroups: ofcn.clinic.eye-doctor

As we approach 40, near vision seems to be the first to go. Barring no other complications, is it sufficient to use non-Rx reading glasses to magnify or is this dangrous?

Answered by Richard E. Gans, M. D. (reg@ofcn.org)

There is nothing wrong with the "drugstore" reading glasses at all. I suggest them to my patients, often.

   
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