The question as to whether wearing contact lenses make your eyesight worse is common and understandable. However, the reassuring answer is that contact lenses do not have a detrimental effect on your vision.
It is easy to avoid restricting the oxygen supply to your eyes by following simple advice.
Contact lenses are often worn by children and young adults who have been diagnosed at their eye examinations as myopic, or short-sighted. After being prescribed with contact lenses they subsequently attend routine examinations only to discover that their short-sightedness appears to have worsened, leading to the natural assumption that the contact lenses are responsible.
However, myopia often becomes progressively worse during childhood and adolescence and even into adulthood. This affects patients who wear contact lenses and those who do not so there is no link between deteriorating eyesight and the wearing of contact lenses.