While 73% of adults do wear sunglasses, only 58% of them make their children wear shades, too, the report found.
More than half of us lose or break our sunglasses every year. More than a quarter of us never bother to wear them, despite benefits to eye health.
“A substantial proportion of people still do not understand that UV exposure is harmful to the eyes as well as the skin,” says Paul Michelson, MD, an ophthalmologist in La Jolla, Calif., and chairman of the Better Vision Institute, the medical advisory arm to The Vision Council.
“Even those who do understand, few understand it is the cumulative exposure that can be damaging,” says Michelson, the former section chief of ophthalmology at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla.
“The good news is, some people wear sunglasses some of the time,” Michelson says. “The bad news is, not enough people wear them enough of the time.”
It’s never too early, Michelson tells WebMD, to put sunglasses on kids. And it’s never too late to begin wearing them, he adds.
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