Short description
Every parent knows that a child's delicate skin always has to be protected against the sun's rays by applying specific sun creams, and that their heads need to be covered. It's not so widely known, however, that lengthy exposure to the sun's rays can cause damage to the eyes, in the same way that it damages the skin, because the ultraviolet radiation affects the eye structure. In fact children have an extremely transparent crystalline lens, especially when they're very young, and so they lack a natural UV barrier; that's why their sensitive eyes have to be carefully protected.
