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The Struggles of Foggy Vision | |
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Peppery One
Papriko
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12/10/2020 | |
Hello-ho-ho! 'tis the season again! The weather is turning gray, frost covers the streets in the early morning hours and everything is decorated in red and green!
However, during this cold season I am faced with a conundrum! For you see: I don't.
What I am trying to get at is that my glasses have a tendency to fog up a lot as of late. The current, uh, global health situation with it's mandatory face masks isn't much of a help either. I just can't prevent my breath from blowing upwards at least to some degree.
Unfortunately, contact lenses are not an option neither for work reasons (grimey machines and cheap soap) nor private reasons (touching eyes = ew).
So I was wondering if my fellow visually impaired peers have any good tips on how to get clear sight during the winter.
Thanks for your attention and thanks in advance for your answers. Take care!
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Wingheart
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12/11/2020 | |
I've heard that the more fitted, washable masks - the kind that has a top that's not just a straight line - with a wire in the top can be sort of moulded to your face and then you put the glasses OVER the facemask.
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Peppery One
Papriko
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12/12/2020 | |
I tried those. Unfortunately that causes my glasses to have too little grip and slipping off my nose onto the ground.
I also tried to kinda hook my glasses onto my mask. You know, the little nubs that sit on your nose go under the mask and the actual lenses go above. That helped a little bit, but not much.
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Chaotic Spriter
mea
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12/12/2020 | |
Depending on how your face is shaped, I've found that if I can keep the top edges of my mask under my cheekbones, my glasses are noticeably less foggy. Over the nose, under the cheekbones works for me, but it doesn't work for my husband. That's why I say it depends on the shape of your face. |
Carminechimera
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12/12/2020 | |
There was an emergency room doctor somewhere that used just a band-aid on the edge of his mask, which was the kind that fit snugly to the face with a wire & that worked. The pad of the band-aid goes on the bridge of the nose & the adhesive bits go onto the mask & the area directly where your lenses will rest on your cheeks, to form the seal. His breath would be better directed away from his lenses from the band-aid seal & he could work without it fogging his lenses.
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Shooshadragon13
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12/22/2020 | |
Face shields are pretty useful if your workplace allows them.
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Peppery One
Papriko
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12/22/2020 | |
The "face shields" we had were absolute garbage, literally just laminating foil clipped to my work cap (kinda like a baseball cap, but decently padded).
I still used them for as long as I could. In the end there we just as inconvenient, if not worse.
Additionally, I need at least FFP2 protection when interacting with employees from other areas.
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Shooshadragon13
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12/22/2020 | |
That stinks. At my little sister's school, they wouldn't let her wear just a face shield; they also made her wear a mask. So we never touched them again, lol. Why? I don't know.
meow |