Sunglasses are a necessary accessory every summer but their true purpose is an important one. To celebrate National Sunglasses Day, Wake Up With Cheddar brought on Dr. Justin Bazan, Medical Advisor for the Vision Council, to educate everyone on the importance of shades.

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Celebrating National Sunglasses Day With The Vision Council

the sun has been beaming down on everyone in the Western hemisphere. But because of that sunglasses have become a necessity of course. And with jay being national sunglasses day we've got to be a good time to provide some education on sunglasses and their importance. So joining us now to provide some knowledge is dr Justin Vincent medical advisor uh for the Vision Council Dr Rosen, thank you so much for joining us today. Good morning. It's a pleasure to be here live and direct on this beautiful cloudy new york. Yeah. So what do you think are some of the dangers of UV rays with with sunglasses? Now tell us why exactly we need to be wearing them as much as we want to. Yeah, well it's important to remember even on these cloudy days the sun's not taking the day off and those UV rays are still penetrating through the clouds. But most of the time we grab sunglasses we think about it just to help us see in the sun. Maybe it's a fashion accessory. The National sunglasses day is here to help celebrate how it protects our eyes from those UV rays. In the short term we can get a sunburn from our eyes leading to irritated dry eyes. In the long term it's a cumulative damage that leads to those little crow's feet around our eyes because it damages our skin, it damages the whites of our eyes causing sunspots that lead our eyes irritated and red inside the eye. It damages that crystal clear lens and makes it cloudy and yellow and then way at the back of our damages. The macula leading to central vision loss. So sunglasses are super important to make sure our eyes are protected from all those horrible things. Oh my gosh, I forget to think about any of those. I'm always just like are they cute? And that's what I should be thinking of all those. So what should people be looking for? Besides just the fashion appeal when it comes to looking for a pair of sunglasses, the most important thing is to make sure they are having full UV protection. Sometimes there's a little sticker, sometimes there's not there's not a stick or how do you know you by a reputable brand from a reputable place. There's also features like polarized every time I go out driving, I'm gonna grab polarized glasses because it really helps cut down the reflected glare. Other types of lenses, maybe glasses that turn darker in the sun or even glasses that have clips that you put on your regular glasses. So lots of different types of sunglasses. There's a budget and a style for everybody. You brought some sunglasses to share with us today. So tell us about them. Yeah, well this represents several different types of sunglasses. Um You have Sunglass clips that you can just put on because they've gotten so good at looking just like the glasses. You have some high fashion with some Swarovski crystals would really like these too bad. He's not here. You've got your your speedboat biking running sunglasses, florida coming from florida. These are the types that like everybody wears even when they're not on a boat and I love it, it's hilarious. And then around here this is like my business professional sunglasses or my stylish sunglasses. Um those are polarized as well too, so there's definitely lots of different looks, lots of different features and benefits to those sunglasses. So you really just make sure they're completely polarized. Like that is like the number one thing that's for me for driving because it cuts down that glare. Big time. I'm looking this clip over here, you know as someone who wears contacts and glasses myself, I never know how to contend with the sun. So I think I have never tried to clip on hair before but and those are available for kids to having kids have two different pairs of glasses um could be pretty crazy. So just a little clip that they keep in their bag. That throne is great for those photo chromatic ones that get dark in the sun. So it's one pair that does double duty awesome. Oh my gosh, well thank you so much for joining us today, Justifies and Medical Advisor for the Vision Council, thank you so much again, we appreciate it. Pleasure. Don't forget to do those Sunglass selfies today in hashtag national sunglasses, sunglasses. Yes, totally. Yes, thank you so much