{"id":170015,"date":"2023-08-19T03:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T08:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/consumer-health-are-you-considering-contact-lenses"},"modified":"2023-08-19T03:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T08:24:23","slug":"consumer-health-are-you-considering-contact-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/consumer-health-are-you-considering-contact-lenses","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Health: Are you considering contact lenses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/consumer-health-are-you-considering-contact-lenses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/contactlenses\/contact-lens-health-week.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contact Lens Health Week<\/a> will be observed Aug. 21\u201325, which makes this a good time to learn more about contact lenses and whether they might be right for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org\/discussion\/see-clearly-advances-in-eyewear\/?mc_id=us&utm_source=newsnetwork&utm_medium=l&utm_content=content&utm_campaign=mayoclinic&geo=national&placementsite=enterprise&invsrc=other&cauid=100721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eyeglasses<\/a> can be fun and fashionable. And they\u2019re a safe and effective way to provide vision correction for most people. Contact lenses also can provide a safe and effective way to correct your vision, and more than 45 million people in the U.S. wear contact lenses, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/contactlenses\/protect-your-eyes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re considering switching to contact lenses, here are some things you should consider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact Lens Health Week will be observed Aug. 21\u201325, which makes this a good time to learn more about contact lenses and whether they might be right for you. Eyeglasses can be fun and fashionable. And they\u2019re a safe and effective way to provide vision correction for most people. Contact lenses also can provide a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}