{"id":47,"date":"2026-10-11T00:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/how-often-should-you-have-an-eye-test\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:08:53","slug":"how-often-should-you-have-an-eye-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/how-often-should-you-have-an-eye-test\/","title":{"rendered":"How often should you have an eye test?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most adults with no eye problems are advised to have a test every two years. Children, people over 60 and contact lens wearers usually come every year (general guidance; your optometrist may suggest otherwise).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sight often changes so slowly that you do not notice. The first sign is usually small print held a little further away, or tired eyes at the end of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An eye test is also a health check: the photograph of the back of the eye lets the optometrist compare one visit with the next.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every two years for most adults, every year for children and over-60s: why, and what changes (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eye-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-optik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}