Hygiene is of the utmost importance when handling and maintaining contact lenses, especially soft contacts. Both cleaning and disinfecting must be done every time you remove your lenses. Cleaning removes surface deposits and is performed with a surfactant cleaning solution. Disinfection kills microorganisms and is accomplished either with heat and a saline solution or with a chemical (cold) disinfecting solution. A third process utilizes enzymes to remove stubborn protein deposits and is usually needed once a week. Saline solution is used to remove the other solutions from the lenses. Finally, although soft lenses are quite comfortable, some wearers may occasionally find a lubricating solution or drops helpful. (The use of these individual solutions is explained below.) Read the rest of this entry »
“I had a lot of friends who wore hard contact lenses; in fact, I’d had a brief fling with them myself about ten years ago. But I live in a big city and couldn’t stand the pain every time a little piece of dust or soot got between my cornea and my lens. So I gave up. I don’t know how my friends continued to put up with it. Actually, some of them didn’t—gradually more and more of them began switching to the (then) new soft lenses: They seemed so happy with them. . . . They finally talked me into trying again. And, boy, am I glad they did! From the very first time I wore them they were unbelievably comfortable. I barely knew that they were there. They were so easy to wear, it was all I could to to keep myself from exceeding the hours specified in my wearing schedule. That was quite a switch from my hard-lens days, when I could hardly wait to get home to take them out. Now I wouldn’t dream of going back to wearing glasses or hard contact lenses. I feel so free and I can see much better too. I’m only sorry that I waited so long.” Read the rest of this entry »
Contact Lenses Care .
