Avulux Migraine Glasses
A Different Approach to Light Sensitivity
For people with migraine, everyday light can be anything but ordinary.
Avulux® lenses are designed to precisely filter harmful blue, amber, and red light while allowing soothing green light through. The result is better light quality without simply making everything darker.
Built on more than a decade of research, Avulux gives practitioners another option for helping patients whose lives are affected by migraine-related light sensitivity.
FDA De Novo Classified | Clinically Proven | Prescription + Non-Prescription Options
Avulux Lens Portfolio
Could Avulux Help Your Patient?
Improving daily life with specialized optical solutions: three lenses built on the same clinically proven filtration, each suited to a different part of a patient's day.
Light sensitivity can show up differently from one patient to the next. Avulux may be worth considering for patients who:
- Ask you to dim the lights or keep sunglasses on indoors
- Point to screens, fluorescent lighting, or bright sun as what brings on or worsens an attack
- Describe glare, flicker, or harsh lighting as a daily trigger they plan their schedule around
- Already have a migraine care plan in place, but still lose time to light
- Have tried generic tints or blue-light lenses and did not get meaningful relief
Avulux lenses precisely filter harmful blue, amber, and red light while allowing soothing green light through, delivering 2x better light quality. FDA granted De Novo classification to Avulux, as an over-the-counter Class I medical device. Avulux is available in single vision, progressive, or non-prescription options.
Indication: For patients age 12 and older diagnosed with episodic migraine, Avulux is indicated to decrease the impact of light sensitivity. Use alongside usual care; its use should not alter medication usage.
Avulux Lens Portfolio
Helping People with Migraines Find Relief
Improving daily life with specialized optical solutions: three lenses built on the same clinically proven filtration, each suited to a different part of a patient's day.
Clinically proven lens for Migraine & Light Sensitivity
Not all light filtering is equal. The result of over a decade of rigorous research and development, Avulux Migraine & Light Sensitivity Lenses deliver 2x better light quality than conventional light management lenses, precisely filtering harmful wavelengths while preserving soothing green light. That precision was proven in an independent, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, the highest scientific standard.
Avulux comfort, inside and out
In its inactive state, Avulux Adapt matches the spectral curve of the clinically proven Avulux lens: filtering harmful blue, amber, and red light while allowing soothing green light through. When exposed to UV light outdoors, photochromic molecules within the lens activate, causing the lens to darken, then quickly return to standard Avulux clarity indoors. In addition to 2x better light quality indoors, you'll get near-total protection from harmful light outdoors when the lens is fully activated.
Outdoor vision, the Avulux way
Designed for outdoor enthusiasts, Avulux Atlas lenses deliver superior comfort, safety, and visual clarity in intense sunlight. Atlas minimizes squinting and visual fatigue during outdoor activities by blocking harsh reflected light from surfaces like water, roads, snow, and glass. Atlas delivers 2x better light quality than a neutral polarized lens — precisely filtering harmful wavelengths while reducing glare.
The Science
Cone-driven retinal pathways
Historical migraine treatments
Prior to Avulux lenses, the options available to your patients with severe light sensitivity were scarce. They ranged from dark sunglasses, which could cause someone chronic dark adaptation (meaning eyes become adapted to darkness and may become even more sensitive to light) if used continuously, to an FL-41 tint, originally created to reduce the impact of the flickering of fluorescent lighting.
What the research found
In 2016, 69 migraine patients were assessed during an untreated migraine attack. Harvard researchers placed subjects in a dark room and exposed them to varying colors of light to measure the effect on headache intensity, throbbing, and muscle tenderness. White, blue, amber, and red light all increased migraine headache pain, while low intensity green light reduced it.
Spectral Analysis
Comparative spectral transmission curves
Avulux lenses are designed around a specific spectral filtration profile across the visible light spectrum.
Precision Filtration
What Avulux targets
The Avulux lenses use a patented nano-molecular technology to selectively filter harmful wavelengths of light while allowing soothing green light through. This precise filtration targets wavelengths that
- induce melanopsin activation; and,
- generate larger electrical signals that can lead to pain via the optic nerve.
Wearing Avulux lenses before and during any exposure to harsh light may help those living with migraines.
Want to Dig Deeper?
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Avulux lenses precisely filter harmful blue, amber, and red light while allowing soothing green light through, delivering 2x better light quality. FDA granted De Novo classification to Avulux, as an over-the-counter Class I medical device. Avulux is available in single vision, progressive, or non-prescription options.
Avulux is for people affected by light sensitivity, you may be a candidate for Avulux if you:
- Ask you to dim the lights, or keep sunglasses on indoors
- Point to screens, fluorescent lighting, or bright sun as what brings on or worsens an attack
- Describe glare, flicker, or harsh lighting as a daily trigger they plan their schedule around
- Already have a migraine care plan in place, but still lose time to light
- Have tried generic tints or blue-light lenses and did not get meaningful relief
Indication: For patients age 12 and older diagnosed with episodic migraine, Avulux is indicated to decrease the impact of light sensitivity. Use alongside usual care; its use should not alter medication usage.
Check out our Introduction to Avulux webinar right here.
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