In general, removal is easier than insertion. Lenses are removed, not with the fingers but with the lid margins. When you are wearing lenses your lids, on closing, slip easily over the lens to be in front of it. Indeed, for most of the time your upper lids will be covering the upper part of the front surface of the lenses so that when your eyes close, the lids simply slip down over the front surfaces. If however, your lids are held so wide apart that the lid margins are above and below the edge of the lens, and if the lid margins are then pressed tightly against the cornea, any attempt to bring the lids together will tend to squeeze the contact lens off the cornea. Read the rest of this entry »
The majority of patients have become wholly relaxed about putting on and removing lenses by the time they attend for the first follow-up appointment. Many, at that stage, are able to treat the matter as a joke and refer to their former anxieties with amusement or mild embarrassment. A minority, however, are still having some difficulties and in a small proportion of cases these difficulties may persist — sometimes because the wearer has never had proper instruction. Read the rest of this entry »
Although soft lenses are considerably larger than hard lenses they are almost as easy to insert. If you can hold your lids wide enough apart, you can use the method described above for the insertion of hard lenses and you will find that the lens nestles on to your cornea with no trouble at all and with almost no sensation. Read the rest of this entry »
This is very easy. Start by getting accustomed to touching the front of the lens while it is on your eye, and do this several times until you have overcome your nervousness. The lens acts as a kind of cushion so you will feel practically nothing. It is important, when you are doing this, not to allow your eye to roll upwards or to the side as this may carry the lens off the cornea. When you are able, quite happily, to look straight ahead with wide open lids while touching the centre of the contact lens, you are in a good position to remove the lens. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes the people who need contact lenses most are those who may have the greatest difficulty in inserting and removing them. This seems a good place to deal with some of the problems such people have in inserting lenses, and how these may be relieved. In the first place, a patient who has had a cataract removed has a very long-sighted eye so that the nearer an object is brought, the more blurred it becomes. Read the rest of this entry »
Q. Are suckers useful for inserting lenses?
A. Generally, no. The finger-tip is much better, because it is soft and therefore less likely to cause accidental damage.
Q. Will the fitter teach me to put in and take out the lenses?
A. Certainly. This is part of the service. Read the rest of this entry »
Contact Lenses Care .
