How can I prevent my daughters eyes from getting sunburnt? She is 5 and wears thick eyeglasses.?

Answer:
'clip on' sun glasses over her regular lenses, and wear a wide brimmed hat when out in the sun, or have her regular glasses treated with some special solution they put on them, take them back to the place where you bought them,

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Get her prescription sunglasses.

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the optician should be able to recommend a UV coating or a lens that blocks UV light, try Transitions.

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Eyeglasses and contact lenses serve the purpose of properly focusing light on the retina. The effect of sunlight on the eyes of a person who needs eyeglasses or contact lenses is not going to be any different than the effect for a person that does not need eyeglasses or contacts. The lenses in your daughter's glasses will not magnify the sunlight like a magnifying glass does.

This is true whether the lenses are for a farsighted or nearsighted person.

As long as your daughter doesn't look directly at the sun (which is bad for all of us, good eyesight or not) and takes the same precautions as everyone else, she'll be okay.

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Could you not buy her some of those light adjusting lenses that darken in the sun. They have a UV filter.

HTH : )

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