blint
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Can anyone recommend a goggles manufacturer whose product accepts prescription lenses and is designed to fit snug on the forehead and temples and cheeks and nose, so that fine dust cannot reach the eyes and so that exhaled breath doesn't get in when you're wearing a mask? Something that conforms to the unique contours of a person's face? Is there anything like that?
I have been trying all sorts of ways to prevent breathing in dust and getting fine wood dust in my eyes, which causes them to get all red and inflamed, and when I breathe in wood dust I have something the doctors say is related to asthma constricting in my throat.
I've tried an expensive full-face name-brand respirator with pink external filters, to goggles with a separate half respirator over nose and mouth, to goggles with just an N95 mask. The most expensive, the full-face name-brand respirator has two shortcomings: I cannot wear glasses beneath them which I need in order to see things like tick-marks on a ruler, and the exhalation valve is just a flap that doesn't instantly seal shut, so that dust particles can enter via that valve. I have strapped an N95 mask over the valve to address that issue but the problem seeing things remains. The goggles, which do allow glasses to be worn underneath, tend to fog up in no time when I breathe, especially outdoors, when I'm wearing a mask. When I exhale, the moist breath travels up to my eyes past my nose and enters the goggles near the nose bridge. Even the kind that the makers say are non-fogging fog up.
I have been trying all sorts of ways to prevent breathing in dust and getting fine wood dust in my eyes, which causes them to get all red and inflamed, and when I breathe in wood dust I have something the doctors say is related to asthma constricting in my throat.
I've tried an expensive full-face name-brand respirator with pink external filters, to goggles with a separate half respirator over nose and mouth, to goggles with just an N95 mask. The most expensive, the full-face name-brand respirator has two shortcomings: I cannot wear glasses beneath them which I need in order to see things like tick-marks on a ruler, and the exhalation valve is just a flap that doesn't instantly seal shut, so that dust particles can enter via that valve. I have strapped an N95 mask over the valve to address that issue but the problem seeing things remains. The goggles, which do allow glasses to be worn underneath, tend to fog up in no time when I breathe, especially outdoors, when I'm wearing a mask. When I exhale, the moist breath travels up to my eyes past my nose and enters the goggles near the nose bridge. Even the kind that the makers say are non-fogging fog up.