Understanding your contact lens prescription | 合法醫療器材資訊網

Learnhowtoreadyourcontactlensprescriptionandwhetheryouarelegallyentitledtoacopyofyourprescriptionforcontacts.

By Liz Segre; reviewed by Gary Heiting, OD[1][2]

Your contact lens prescription contains specific information to ensure your contact lenses[3] are safe, comfortable and provide optimum vision.

If you’re in the U.S., your contact lens prescription is yours to keep. In fact, by law, your eye doctor must give you a copy of your prescription at the conclusion of your contact lens exam[4] and fitting — even if you dont ask for it.

Eye doctors[5] use standard terms, abbreviations and measurements to write contact lens prescriptions. It may look like a secret code, but it’s really quite simple to decipher.

Here’s a link to a helpful resource from Coastal with details about how to read your contact lens prescription[6].

And here’s a page with a VIDEO about reading your contact lens prescription[7]. ...