Contact Lens Care is a necessity that should be provided due to prescriptions and recommendations of contact manufactures'. You can forget about any sort of contact lens care if you wear daily lenses with the exception of moisturizing, because the term they can be used is only 24 hours maximum, so put them into a trash can and head for an optic if you don't have another pair in reserve. But the matter is absolutely different for monthly or weekly contacts. You need to read thoroughly all the contact lens care information.
There is a certain way to clean lenses that should be strictly followed. For example, if you have emptied out your special solution you can decide that it actually makes no difference should you put them into tap water. But it really does. Solution has a fixed recipe that is the best for lenses to keep them clean, non-damaged and bacteria-free.
What is more, there are specially developed substances used to remove all the harmful elements that appear on lens surfaces after a day wearing, e. g. viruses, microorganisms, etc. Mainly they imply rubbing a lens against your hand with a pad of a finger for several seconds. Caution: be attentive not to damage a lens with fingernails. Each time you take your lenses do it only with pincers.
For painstaking contact lens care you can need several solutions or just one kind that combines all the functions, it is called multipurpose.
During a day or several days when you don't remove contacts from eyes, they dry out and this is detrimental to eyes. To prevent such an effect certain drops are prescribed to lens wearers. The main purpose of the drops is to moisten a lens. As a rule this should be done as often as two or three times per day. The frequency depends on the surroundings. Because when out in hot weather, lenses lose moisture much faster thus requiring more often drop adding.
If you don't take proper care of your contact lenses, when wearing them you can experience discomfort, can have blurred vision and irritate your eyes, and make them itchy. Lenses should be kept only in containers or contact lens cases without touching anything except inner parts of a case. Most eye care practitioners recommend to contact wearers to put them in while sitting at a table, in case one falls down it won't touch any bacteria-rich things. N. B. Hands should be absolutely clean before touching eyes or contacts.
Be careful and remember about health each time you feel too lazy to clean contact lenses and store them properly. Be healthy and see everything clearly! |