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. 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 »

Q. Will my eyes be continuously red?

A. If they are, something is wrong. Contact the fitter at once.

Q. Can you tell that someone is wearing contact lenses?

A. Usually not.

Q. Can they be coloured?

A. Yes. Lenses can be tinted almost any colour. Read the rest of this entry »

Q. Can the power of my hard lenses be changed, if I become more short-sighted?

A. Yes quite easily, if the equipment is to hand. But lens adjustments, and even polishing, are becoming increasingly uneconomic and most fitters will simply order new lenses for you.

Q. Can the power of soft lenses be changed? A. No. Read the rest of this entry »