Contact Lenses Care

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.

There is, however, an annoying tendency for the lens to touch the lid margin or the lashes at the moment of insertion and to be knocked off the finger tip. For this reason, many soft lens wearers adopt the slightly different method described below.

Having balanced the lens on your fore-finger tip, pull the margin of the lower lid well down with your second finger tip and look upwards so that a good area of the white of your eye is exposed. This part of the eye is quite insensitive and can be touched without pain or discomfort, and you will find it easy to let the lens fall directly on to it. Because the soft lens is so large, the upper half will flop on to the lower part of the cornea and if you now look directly to the front the lens will slip upwards until it is centred on the cornea. If there is any tendency for the lens to refuse to move up on to the cornea, simply keep the tip of your finger on it while you look straight ahead. This will ensure that the lens is properly centred and when you take your finger away it will remain so.

Soft lenses, especially the ultra-thin type, are rather floppy when first taken from their soakage solution. It is, therefore, sometimes advantageous to wait for a minute or two to allow each lens to become slightly more rigid before applying it to the cornea. Don’t wait too long or the lens will become quite hard and will begin to distort so that you will have to wet it again before attempting insertion.

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