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Children Need Sunglasses Too...

Excessive exposure to sunlight during early childhood is harmful to the eyes. Children’s developing eyes let in more UV rays than the eyes of adults and, since children spend a lot of time outdoors, their exposure to sunlight is greater.

Since damage to the eyes caused by UV light accumulates over a lifetime, it is vitally important to protect your child’s eyes from the sun from an early age. Although the consequences of UV light exposure usually do not surface until well into adulthood, the risk for retinal damage from the sun's rays is greatest in children under the age of ten.

To help protect your child’s precious eyesight, make sure he or she wears sunglasses, especially between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., when UV exposure is strongest. This applies equally to children with light and dark-coloured eyes. Although darker eye pigmentation does, to a degree, protect the eyes from UV radiation, the damaging rays still penetrate to the retina. Children with lighter coloured eyes need increased protection and should not venture out into the sun without wearing sunglasses that provide broad-spectrum UV protection. Your child’s exposure to UV light is greatest when he or she is at high altitudes, on bright, sandy beaches, near reflective bodies of water, or surrounded by snow.

Suntech-Optics sunglasses for children provide full-spectrum protection against UV light and are guaranteed to look cool!

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