Ready-readers could cause vision problems

Ready-reader glasses could cause eye strain, blurred vision, headaches or double vision according to a Which? magazine report.

In the health section of the November edition, an 'expert' optometrist was asked to check the quality and prescription of 14 pairs of ready-readers from seven high street stores and claimed to have found problems in half of them. Higher prescription glasses were found to have the most serious flaws.

The magazine's readers were advised that for people with higher prescriptions, ready-readers were not suitable for walking or other mobile activities. The magazine said that based on some of the glasses it tested, someone using them up a ladder 'could have a nasty accident'. Low prescription reading glasses purchased from the Tiger, Primark and Poundland chains were also found to have large distances between the lens centres.