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Kids and contacts

...Ken Love MCT Alexis Swartz, 12, of Mogadore, Ohio, stores her A growing number of pre-teens are trading in their glasses for contacts.

(Ken Love/Akron Beacon Journal/MCT) Story Tools E-mail this story | Print With advances in comfort, cleaning, eye doctors have become more willing to dispense lenses to preteens By Cheryl Powell Akron Beacon Journal April 23, 2007 AKRON, Ohio - When Alexis Swartz started playing volleyball and marching in the school band this past fall, she could see that her glasses were causing problems.

"When it was really cold outside," she said, "they would fog up." Advertisement So the 12-year-old seventh-grader from Mogadore, Ohio, did what a growing number of preteens are doing: She traded in her clumsy glasses for contacts.

"I think it's nicer than having glasses, because the contacts don't get in the way or anything," Alexis said.

Gone are the days when near-sighted kids had to wait until their teen years to swap their spectacles for soft Recent studies have shown that children as young as 8 can handle their contacts properly without any increase in complications.

And with modern advances making contacts more comfortable and easier to keep clean, eye experts today are willing to prescribe the lenses for children when they're still in middle school or even elementary school.

"You have to look at the individual, their level of maturity, their level of motivation," said Tom Barra...

Baseball players getting their eyes in shape too

...By Kevin Baxter, Times Staff Writer 8:59 PM PDT, April 22, 2007 Sharper click to enlarge New view click to enlarge Miami - Pete Rose found baseball, at its essence, to be a simple game.

"See the ball," he said.

"Hit the ball." And nobody did that more often than Rose, the sports' all-time hits leader.

But what if you can't see the ball?

That happened to Baltimore Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons.

"My vision just went on me all of a sudden," he said.

"I was screwed." Same thing with Oakland's Dan Johnson, who accidentally sprayed sunscreen into his right eye last spring and wound up with double vision.

"I used to hit breaking balls — [until] I couldn't see them," recalled Johnson, whose batting average plummeted more than 40 points.

He didn't even try to hit curveball pitches, he said.

"I would just take them, because I would lose them." Johnson did eye exercises during the off-season for up to six hours a day.

The improvement showed in spring training, where he hit .294 with 10 walks before he ended up on the disabled list because of a hip injury.

The episodes proved to be eye-openers for both players who had always taken near-perfect eyesight for granted.

Now, they're among a growing number of professional athletes focusing on new and improved technologies to recover lost vision skills.

Not all the attention is coming from players with damaged or...

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...You should not donate any blood while you are taking isotretinoin and for one month after you stop taking it.

Please talk about do's and don't with your doctor.

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Your doctor will explain the details to you.

If you get pregnant while taking isotretinoin you should stop taking it and call your doctor immediately.

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You should talk to your gynaecologist and dermatologist in detail before taking isotretinoin.

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This article is not intended to be a medical advise and it is not a substitute for professional medical advice.

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