eli5: Does wearing glasses worsen your eyesight?

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I just got glasses and im curious, some tips would be appreciated!

In: Biology

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Assuming you are myopic (near-sighted) then your eyes should be completely relaxed when looking into a distance if your glasses are perfect. So this won’t cause any problems.

But if you spend your time looking at a nearby screen for hours (e.g. a computer) and you wear your glasses, then you will strain your eyes extra, because they will have to compensate for the glasses. So if you can look closely without glasses then it’s probably better to take them off.

In short: probably not, but it could strain your eyes when looking up closeby.

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