To ask you about contact lenses and teenagers?

[GCSEmum1]

Posting here for traffic but also because I wasn't really sure if this is a style and beauty or health thing!

DD is 13 and recently started playing contact sport - she can't see a thing until it's right in front of her without her glasses on so we need to look at contacts...

I have no experience of contacts so what should I be looking for? Are they expensive? Do I need to get a prescription from optician?

13 years of parenting and sometimes I'm still flummoxed!

My dd started wearing contacts at around the same age and for the same reasons. She started with daily disposables as she did not wear them every day as she liked the look of her glasses too. We went to specsavers and they were very good with her. She also got prescription goggles as she also struggled with swimming. She is now a little older and has moved to monthly lenses, which she pays for herself as she is working. She does still wear glasses a fair bit. I was concerned at first about cleaning them but with the dailies you don't have to worry

My son has the sports goggles @barnanabas mentions, he's had them since about age 7, and they work well.

Can you actually even get daily contacts in +9 prescription?

I think Leonardo da vinci invented the first hard contact lens.

@Eyevorbig0ne

I think Leonardo da vinci invented the first hard contact lens.

My mum once showed me her 1960s hard contact lenses - they were about twice the size of the gas permeables I had in the early 90s and really thick as well (in fact they were the size and shape of the early soft lenses you could get in the 90s, but hard). Must have been agony to wear.

When filming 'Dracula' Christopher Lee had to wear red cosmetic contact lenses that covered the whites of his eyes (obviously they were hard lenses in those days) and he talks in his autobiography about how excruciating they were.

Amazing how far contact lens technology has come in the last 50 years.