Tips for Contact Lenses
When cared for properly, soft contact lenses can provide a healthy, comfortable and convenient vision correction option. Whether you are new to contact lenses or have been wearing them for years, the following tips will help you to enjoy the benefits of contact lenses.
Furthermore, proper follow-up care by your eye doctor is essential to ensure eye health throughout your life. Over time, your eyes and lenses can change, often without symptoms or warning signs which may put you at risk for developing potentially serious complications, including vision loss. Regular ongoing professional care can help to ensure a lifetime of good vision and eye health.
Follow a Wearing Schedule
Different lenses are made for different wearing schedules. While some lenses can potentially be worn for a week or even a month of continuous wear, others are meant to be taken out daily. To protect your eyes from serious complications, it is important that you follow the wearing schedule that your eye care professional recommends. Please consult your eye care professional if you have any questions about the proper wearing schedule of your lenses.
Inserting and Removing Your Lenses
It is important that you wash, rinse and dry your hands thoroughly each time you handle your lenses. Good hygiene helps to eliminate germs which can cause eye infection – especially for smokers. Do not insert a lens into an eye that is red, irritated or painful. In these instances, you should contact your eye care professional immediately before continuing contact lens use.
Contact Lenses Care
Depending on the type of lens you are wearing, there are many different options for cleaning and disinfecting your lenses. Some lenses, such as daily disposable lenses, require little to no lens care – they are simply thrown away after each use. However, if you wear lenses that your eye care professional has recommended that you take out and re-insert into your eye, they should be cleaned and disinfected after each use. Proper care for your lenses can help your lenses stay clean and comfortable for you to wear. Your eye care professional can help you decide what lens care solutions are best for you.
Always Try to Reduce the Risk for Infection
Clean and safe handling of contact lenses is one of the most important measures contact lens wearers can take to protect their vision. Follow these tips, and they can help you avoid any adverse events:
- You should always wash your hands with soap before you handle your contact lens or touch your eye.
- Never purchase any contact lensses that is not prescribed by your doctor.
- Do not share your cosmetic contact lenses, as this could lead to serious eye infections.
- Never use the tap water to rinse your lenses or your lens case.
- Use fresh solution each time you place your lenses in a lens storage case.
- A new lens case should be used with each new bottle of solution or at least once in three month.
- Stick to the wearing schedule that your doctor prescribes and dispose of your lenses when it is recommended.
- Do not leave your contact lenses in overnight. Contact lenses should not be worn for longer than 8 hours at a time.
- Swimming while wearing contact lenses can cause serious problems and is not recommended. Wear protective goggles while swimming. Ask your eye doctor for specific advice regarding swimming with lenses.
Any Problems with contact lenses?
If you experience any problems with your contact lenses seek immediate medical attention. Discomfort can be an early sign of a more serious complication, and early treatment can have a significant impact on overcoming problems.
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