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Speaker 1: Michael Graft is our friendly local optometrist from Specsavers on

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Speaker 1: Care Street. He popped by to talk something that I

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Speaker 1: suffer from my opia europia. So what is this again?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so short sightedness is when things in the distance

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Speaker 2: look blurry, so that can be whiteboard signs when driving.

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Speaker 1: Straight signs in particular. Man.

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Speaker 2: Yes, However, without glasses or contact lenses on, generally your

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Speaker 2: up close or your reading vision's quite good, hence short sighted.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. How common is this?

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Speaker 2: Yes, no, it's very common, and it's actually becoming more common.

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Speaker 2: So the World Health Organization expect about fifty percent of

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Speaker 2: the population to be sure sighted. Twenty fifty, so really growing.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit of an epidemic.

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Speaker 1: Half of us. Well, we're already there in the studio. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'm the one the specs on. You're not there, you go.

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Speaker 1: It's causing that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So the research is showing a few things, but

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Speaker 2: it's the environmental So it's sort of prolonged reading or

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Speaker 2: near work without breaks, reading in poor light levels and

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Speaker 2: not spending enough time outside as well.

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Speaker 1: When you say reading, I think we all know what

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Speaker 1: you mean. Screen time, and no doubt those hours well

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Speaker 1: and truly up over the school. So myopia management kind

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Speaker 1: of sounds like an accounting software in all fitness.

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Speaker 2: I suppose it does, doesn't it. But yes, it's a

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Speaker 2: very cool option there that we do in optomet treatise

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Speaker 2: try and slow down the progression of short sightedness, specifically

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Speaker 2: in children, to reduce the risk factors of blinding complications

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Speaker 2: later in life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and what's that look like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's quite a few different options available. You've

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Speaker 2: got glasses, contact lenses, and eye drops. But what's really

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Speaker 2: exciting is that we've just released a new more affordable lens,

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Speaker 2: meaning that it's more available to more families.

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Speaker 1: How's that different from what we used to have.

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Speaker 2: So they've got a treatment zone in it, so it's

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Speaker 2: more like a peripheral blur, so and you'll center of

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Speaker 2: your vision, everything's nice and clear, and then you've got

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Speaker 2: a blary sort of circle around which signals to the

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Speaker 2: brain to slow down the progression of growth of the eye,

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Speaker 2: reducing the amount of myopial short sightedness.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Really, oh my gosh. Yeah, and that's available there.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's correct. So if you feel like your child

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Speaker 2: is struggling at school to see the white boarder, if

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Speaker 2: you know, that they're already short sighted. Definitely, come down

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Speaker 2: and we can go over the needs and sort of

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Speaker 2: the different options available.

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Speaker 1: And with kids, is that a free check?

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Speaker 2: Yes, so children get a free eye check if they're

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Speaker 2: under sixteen specs out of.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty neat, isn't it. Yeah? Wow, okay, and then

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Speaker 1: final week to take advantage of this the store wide

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Speaker 1: spec stravaganza.

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Speaker 2: Say that three times there. Yes, So that's a really

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Speaker 2: really cool deal that we have ongoing and that finishes

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Speaker 2: on the fourth of October, So this Saturday, said day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that's two peers right across the range, the

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Speaker 1: two nine ninth.

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Speaker 2: That's correct, which includes single vision lenses.

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Speaker 1: Spectators open seven days of course. Too. Appreciate you popping

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Speaker 1: on guys always.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me