Contact Lenses Care

5. Don’t Be Overly Persistent.

If it becomes difficult to insert, wear, or remove the lens, take a break and try again. If you still have trouble, call your doctor. If the lens becomes uncomfortable during wear, remove it and inspect it for foreign particles or deposits. It is also possible that you may have inserted the wrong lens, or inserted a soft lens inside out.

6. Remove Lenses Before Swimming, Showering, or Sleeping.

Unless you are otherwise instructed, and you take special precautions, water could enter your eyes while swimming or showering. The lenses might shift, fall out, float away; soft lenses could absorb chemicals (such as chlorine) and impurities from the water. (Ask your doctor if you can swim with goggles or a mask.) Read the rest of this entry »

Your lenses are delicate, expensive objects. Your eyes are sensitive, irreplaceable organs. To maintain the vision, health, and comfort of your eyes and prolong the useful life of your contacts, meticulous care and handling are of extreme importance. The techniques used to insert and remove the lenses may seem difficult and awkward at first, but with time, patience, perseverance, and motivation you will master them just as thousands of others have. They’ll soon become simple routines as you develop your own individual technique, and as natural and easy as brushing your teeth or tying your shoelaces. Specific procedures vary somewhat and depend upon you and the type of lens you wear. But certain general principles apply no matter what. Read the rest of this entry »