Bad eyesight and waterparks

[Raginglikeacrazywoman12]

I am planning on booking a holiday where there’s a water park as my children would love it. My issue is I have terrible eye sight-I will be looking after both my children alone but need to really keep a close eye on (no pun intended) my youngest as he is autistic. I cannot safely do this without my glasses. Any suggestions from personal experience would be greatly received.

I just wear my glasses

Contact lenses?

You can buy prescription goggles. Or get a sports strap to hold your glasses in place.

I've worn contact lenses in the past get the daily disposable ones and take spares incase you lose one

Prescription goggles if you’re actually going on water slides etc, but if you are more just following the DC around and not spending much time in the water then I’d just wear my glasses/prescription sunglasses.

My friend wears her prescription goggles when in water then glasses once out and sitting down

I take my glasses and buy a sportstrap to keep them on.

You can get prescription goggles for about £12 on Amazon or about £28 if you need a vastly different lens for each eye from a website ..something like prescription goggles.com

I go either goggles over contact lenses or prescription goggles. Mine are shite because there is a crazy price hike after a prescription of about 10 so they aren't the right prescription. But closer than nothing.
Also goggles are uncomfortable without a lycra swim hat, so it looks like I'm taking things far too seriously.

I just wear my daily contact lenses. I am -12 in both eyes for contact lenses.
I know you are not supposed to, but there is no other option to see peripherally and comfortably all day.
I simply remove them after swimming, flush my eyes with saline eye drops and pop in a new pair afterwards when in the changing room.

I was massively short sighted when my kids were younger ( I’ve since had cataract surgery) I couldn’t get out of bed without my glasses on so I always wore my glasses. (Unless I was prepared to spend a fortune prescription goggles went nowhere near my complex prescription) I did get challenged in a water park in Spain and I signed a disclaimer to say I wouldn’t claim from them if my glasses got broken or lost then I was allowed to wear them. Never been challenged anywhere else.

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DH used to put elastic around his glasses to keep them more secure if he wasn't really swimming much, he used a spare or older pair for this. For proper swimming he has prescription goggles

You can get prescription goggles...why didn't I know this. How mumsnet knowledgeable people. Sorry op it's why I refused to take dd swimming as I couldn't see...I totally understand

I’ve been to 2 water parks in Spain in the past week. Both allowed you to wear glasses or sunglasses in the water as long as you had a strap on them.
otherwise prescription goggles as others have said!

Just wear the glasses? My mum is -12 and always used to just wear hers in the pool and waterparks with us.

You could buy a cheap set online so you don't have to worry about that m getting scratched etc?

Don't ever wear contact lenses in swimming pools! The risk of infection is really really high, plus the risk of losing a lens which is useless if you're very shortsighted.

There's also prescription swimming goggles as mentioned, but will you want to wear those poolside?

I've always just worn glasses, I don't really have a choice. For surfing or body boarding I used to use a strap to keep them on but I'm not one for the super scary water slides so I don't think there's much chance of them coming off in a water park! I wear my old pair now because my current pair were £££ and I don't want the chlorine to damage them.

For all the people saying wear your glasses on the pool.

When people splash surely the water goes on the lenses and you can't see properly?

We've been to water parks in Spain and Majorca. Never been allowed to wear my glasses in the water or on slides.

Prescription goggles only - you'd need to check the water park T&Cs

Lots of water parks abroad absolutely don't allow you to wear glasses.

I use to take mine and a small case - then out them in the case and a waterproof pounce whilst on the slide.

Not going to lie - it's an absolute PITA but many I've visited are very strict and will not budge.

I also have prescription goggles but some don't allow goggles on slides either.

Don't ever wear contact lenses in swimming pools! The risk of infection is really really high, plus the risk of losing a lens which is useless if you're very shortsighted.

Bollocks it isn’t high if you don’t open your eyes under water and then remove lenses, flush eyes and pop in new sterile lenses directly after. All the studies done show that the higher risk of eye infections is due to bacteria or protozoans being trapped inside your contact lenses- as in you don’t have disposable daily contacts but just clean and wear the same lenses for weeks or months.

I’ve never lost a lens while swimming or in a water/splash park. If you are particularly worried about splashing in the eye, you can wear regular goggles with contact lenses.

Prescription goggles have changed my swimming life, especially when swimming in the sea from a boat. I wear ones from Sutton as I need different strengths in each eye

Check what the water park allows

I was at one a few weeks ago in Spain & they were very strict about glasses. They had to have a strap to be allowed to keep them on

But I wanted to wear my goggles in the wave pool & some of the water slides and wasn't allowed.

Even our hotel pool was super strict! No glasses in the pool unless they had a strap. I said to DH what is more dangerous, the glasses or not bring able to see your child in the pool...

I used to wear lenses but find it so hard not to get splashed now I have kids. Waterparks are especially bad.

The risk of a splash to your contact is acanthamoeba keratitis- a blinding parasite in your cornea that sometimes not even a transplant can solve.

I would say swimming goggles or a sports strap in your glasses.

AK is rare overall. You’re more likely to get it if you wear contacts and don’t maintain or store them properly. People with decreased immunity also have a higher risk.(source Mayo clinic).

Again, the higher risk for contact wearers doesn’t apply to disposable contacts.

Any splash in the eye can give you AK with or without disposable contacts.

The complications of scarring and blindness are usually due to ignoring symptoms and getting treatment more than 3 weeks after infection.